OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[SulwynCaliope]

This screenshot conveys a lot more then the other one. You had thought process behind it and the focus was on YOU not the background, which made it stronger. Imagine just taking your character to that waterfall and just standing there with your weapon out like the 1st one, that would have been boring and borderline terrible. You had a plan and you executed it by taking the Coeurl and running from it like it was chasing you through a jungle and the photographer happened to capture the event while a waterfall was in the background. The background of this photo enhances the beauty and story of the shot and does not become the FOCUS of the shot.

Being a "Model" has nothing to do with being Sexy or Hot, it's owning the shot and being the focus of the shot, everything in the shot enhances you. You're not just clutter added to the background.

You've said what I've been wanting to say about this competition and this competitors so well. A lot of the weakest photos to me have people just literally standing there and doing some /pose. It's boring. I want people to realize that the environment is there for them to control.

Two of my fave pictures throughout this competition were Vahn's Hullbreaker Isle picture and Maxwell's snow picture with the wolves. Vahn's picture was strong because he was mindful of the fact that he wasn't in that dungeon alone and he used that fact to his advantage while keeping the focus on himself. I loved Maxwell's picture because I felt like he went a step further and incorporated himself into the story. He could have easily just done a /pose while standing there with the wolves. Instead he went a step further and aggro-ed them so he'd have a really interesting shot to take.

What is common between those 2 examples is that they both took elements external from themselves and the background and used them in such a way that their pictures told stories. That is what I'm looking for when I choose pictures to vote for. I will choose pictures which tell stories over sexy/ cute pictures all the time. If I wanted to look at sexy/ cute pictures, I could just take those screenshots on my own characters and admire them in my own time. I want pictures that show that the "models" have actually put real thought into the stories behind the pictures. Stories that let me understand the model a bit better. :/

[Kaiyoko]

Two of my fave pictures throughout this competition were Vahn's Hullbreaker Isle picture and Maxwell's snow picture with the wolves. Vahn's picture was strong because he was mindful of the fact that he wasn't in that dungeon alone and he used that fact to his advantage while keeping the focus on himself.

A million times YES!

Vahn's picture is exactly what I mean. It is to date my personal favorite because of all the elements of the photo coming together and he is still the primary focus. It has the movie star on a poster feel. Whether everything was intentional or not is another story.

[VahnValbosce]

A million times YES!

Vahn's picture is exactly what I mean. It is to date my personal favorite because of all the elements of the photo coming together and he is still the primary focus. It has the movie star on a poster feel. Whether everything was intentional or not is another story.

Thanks ... it was a pre-planned thing, had an idea and put it into work.

I wanted to mention tho that I am not against "simple" shots. Actually I kind of like Yunie's snow picture better than the waterfall one that you compared it to. My reason for this is, that it's honestly alot harder than you might think in order to get the right angle/lighting/focus in the whole picture at once. 1 tiny mouse slip to the left or 1 misstep to the right can ruin the whole photo, sounds crazy but it's true.

Don't forget that weather effects and lighting only last a certain amount of time in game. So if you want to take a pic at noon, you got like 5 mins before the lighting is completely different. Ciara takes some really nice "simpler" shots and IMO if you can make a simple shot look amazing then it takes alot of skill.

That hullbreaker one took 2 days and 150+ screenshots to finally get the right one lol... I'm sure other models go through tons of photos to finally get "the one" to use.