OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[Wings]

Looks like I might be leaving you this round! Seems I really took a dud ^^;;

Here's how I reached the picture I chose, anyway =)

While travelling the desert and taking test shots, I got what with the bright sun and minion looked like a sweaty sheen, which I thought fit the theme. The test image didn't work, since I took it myself and couldn't get a better positioning in the picture - target the lighting-minion and start the emote, switch to a lock-on point, turn off the HUD, position the camera, and take the shot at the right moment during the movement of the emote - I'm just not that quick! Believe me, I actually tried

So I used a friend as camera again, and attempted a recording program, in order to be able to pick the right frame, but I couldn't manage to get it in better quality than 480p, and the height/width was very different between my friend's PC and mine. I also thought that double-image effect was the recording program being glitchy....

After hours wasted on that *beep*y program, I scrapped the idea and went back to manual screenshotting XD I ran into all kinds of snags, like taking a shot too quick:

Or too slow:

Looking tail-less:

Or image upon image of a hand in the wrong place:

One of the things I wanted to capture was the wind blowing sand across the dunes, but it always seemed to happen on the shots where I didn't get the right pose:

I'll spare you all the photobomb shots X3 That high sand dune is a popular place.

I did get a few others that I found interesting but didn't pick. I liked the lighting in this one - and actually got a tail despite being shot from that side - but found the right side too empty.

I really liked these two, but thought that a hand across half the face was a bit risky. The face is slightly more visible in the first one, and the background is better in the second (apart from a photobombing Fire Sprite).

Rhaya: You always rock girl. You also used one of my favourite parts of the desert where the sand dunes are all high. Really gives that look that the desert goes on forever. The midday sun really gives your shot a lot of great contrasty colors too. It seems like the Keepers of the Moon don’t do so well in the smoldering desert sun and she’s about to give in to the heat.

Thank you! That's just the thing I was going for too - a Moon Keeper out of her element. I picked the one I entered because I thought it caught the pained expression well. ♥