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Hello and welcome one and all!

After a couple of years of taking Screenshots in my original passion, Halo, I thought I'd try my hand in using the much more extensively technical cameras of Forza Horizon 2 and take some Screenshots of my own featuring the beautiful racers of the game.
It's still very early days for me, finding my feet with the Camera, but I hope I've taken some decent snaps in my Gallery and with the ones featured below:

Firey Fury:



One of the first conceptual pieces I tried, using my custom decaled Lotus Exige in the dawn's light to get that fiery texture behind the car from the hillside. One of my favourite pieces I've made thus far without going for a classic photograph look.

Vauxhall Emblem:



This one I originally did for an emblem competition, using a recent rain to add to the texture. I'm really happy with my framing though for the Vauxhall Astra GTC piece, the grill shape was perfect for a close up look.

Sunrise Pickup:



I always seem to enjoy messing around in dawns and dusks, as with this piece I took with another racing vehicle with a simplistic look I created. Trying to get the motion of the foreground plus the stillness of the truck was very tricky, but I played around with the Focus enough to make this piece.

That truck also looks really nice in the night time in an urban environment I've found too:



Orange Blurr:



One of my most recent pics after screaming past a Drivatar in in single player. The coincidence of orange was an opportunity I couldn't pass up, so I added some extra colour and contrast to make it look more vibrant with the blurring.

Dawn's Light:



Last one to haare with you all, where once again I borrow the power of a sunset/sunrise to make a slightly silhouetted look of my Astra GTC whilst racing. I love the orange look of the ocean in the back ground to counter the muted burgundy of the car.



And that's all from me for now! I'd appreciate any and all critiques/comments on my stuff and I hope they looked relatively decent for you all!

Thanks for checking this out!

17 out.

Edited by user Sunday, September 6, 2015 3:09:39 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Fantastic shots! The Ford pickup at night is my fave, so far.

Many thanks Sergi! That night shot of the F-100 is the best one I've done thus far I think, gonna be fun trying to top it.



After playing again last night, I finally managed to obtain the Ford Capri Barn Find, so naturally I immediately gave it a paintjob to match the Mark III Capri in the family garage and had a spin with it in free roam:





I originally went for some slightly Retro-looking Screenshots with the two above, using the lights inside the Tunnel in the night time to help with the colouring. Happy with the first one, was difficult trying to hide the headlights' beams on the road, but a teensy bit still snuck in...



Very, very happy with this piece in the rains of Nice in the night time. Not much else to say really, I just love it.



A fun moment too in the modern muscle race, when a 3 wide moment opened up. The contrast and motion was a fun thing to try and make work well.



A slightly more monochrome attempt with a random BMW that passed me.



And that's it from me once again. Thank you once again for stopping by and taking a look see.

17 out

Edited by user Monday, February 9, 2015 5:14:15 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

They are really great well done.

Thank you! Coming from an accomplished Screenshot taker like yourself that means a lot! :)

Hopefully I'll get some fresh snaps this week and maybe I'll grab Storm Island to have a play with later for some wild Screenshots.

Haha if you can count my 5 days as accomplished lol. But thank you all the same. I really like your style some of the shots are really eye catching even my wife who usually tells me to turn it off likes seeing everyone's pics.

Edited by user Sunday, February 8, 2015 8:17:04 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Haha whoops, well for 5 days you're already showing off accomplished Screenshots. :P

Glad you like them and that your wife approves!

Great shot!

Many thanks Nights Viper! Unfortunately yhe quoted piccy's now a dud as I re-shared it with Photocomp16 in the desfriprion to maybe get a spot in the new Photocomp.

I am gonna post up a decent bunch up tonight when I am back home, including some Venom, Mazda, Supra and LaFerrari shots, showing off some basic livery attempts of mine. They're in my gallery link on the first post if you want to see them before I put them here. :-)

So until then folks!

17 out.

Right then, time for some fresh new piccies as promised of my recent exploits in FH2! Got a variety to display, using a bunch of cars and trying some abstract stuff along with my standard realism attempts.

So without further ado, here's the next batch:

Starting it off, I managed to get myself a free Mazda 3 and immediately decked it out in a custom livery of mine paying homage to a Transformers character I cooked up with my gf many moons ago. Not tried using tribal vinyls before but I was happy with the appearance and how the car looked racing in the wet in Nice:

Green Rain:



Kickflip Storm:



The second one I am very very happy with. One of my best yet in my humble opinion. I also played around in the summer sunlight for a couple along the Riviera too and one in the tunnel to try and get a speedy action shot:

Angled Mazda:



Tunneled



After all that Hot Hatch nonsense, I wenmt a little more high octane and nabbed a Hennessey Venom and a LaFerrari for some speedy shots:

Sunset Venom:



Airborne:



Foliage Blurr:



The Venom's got another custome livery of mine, I'm only good for simplistic stuff, but I hope it looks relatively striking.

Sheer Speed:



With this one, the rims I chose that included the yellow walling looked fantastic when I upped the contrast and colour to add a strange feeling of stillness with the circles, despite the speed of the car itself.

Vibranto:



And finally, some wet shots (hurr hurr), featuring my Supra and a Fiat I was up against:

Abarth Charge:



Dawn's Rise:



Drizzled Supra:



Fiery Beam:

+++++++++++++

And that is it from me for now! My apologies if I spammed you with too many photos, I couldn't cut down much as I wanted to show them all...Sorry about that.

Hope you like some of them, any feedback as before is greatly welcomed!

17 out.

Edited by user Tuesday, February 24, 2015 3:39:51 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Love this one,


Quality!

+1 That shot is awesome!

Thank you both! I tjink that is the best stylised one I've done yet! I might re-share it this week and add "Photocomp17" to it to see if the folks at Turn10 also approve.

In other news, I bought Storm Island last night, so I am gonna have a lot of fun when I get home from work playing on that and taking more photos. Expect quite a number featuring that Volcano...

Good evening everyone! It's been a little while since I was here but I'm back with some fresh Screenshots, including some Storm Island creations!

So kicking it off, I managed to win a Lotus Esprit in the "Wheelspin" and decided to finally do something I'd planned on for years, which was to recreate the colour scheme of a Hot Wheels Esprit I still own in my collection. I think it came out okay as I'm still a very early beginner in Vinyl works but it did look super sweet with Screenshots:

Esprit Speed:



Sun Sheen:



Accel R8:



After all that, I managed to obtain Storm Island finally and managed to get a couple of good Screenshots whilst racing around and enjoying the jumps:

Night Run:



Flyin Scooby:



Dusty Scooby:



This next one is not a vehicle I own at the moment, but I couldn't resist taking a picture of this Drivatar with the sunrise behind it and the treeline.

Donker Dawn:



That's it for the moment from me, but I do have some Miuira Screenshots to share soon, once I've retagged them with this week's Photocomp tag to see if the boys and girls at Turn10 also like them.

Hope they look good! Any comments and critique is as always, most welcome!

17 out.

Edited by user Tuesday, February 24, 2015 3:37:33 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Love those Lotus shots! Great work on the paint too.

Nice work ^

Great shots. Love the paint job on the Lotus.

-casually blows the dust off of everything and gets the camera-

It has been some time now, hasn't it since I posted in here?

Just before Forza 6 blasts on through this month, I thought I'd revisit Forza Horizon 2 and look over the myriad of Screenshots I took since February and see if I should post them for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of their dedicated Photobucket Album.

But to save you all from trawling through, here are some of my highlights:

To start it all off, there is one car I wanted for some time in Horizon 2 and after getting the DLC needed, I finally owned the Jaguar XJ220. I tried something a little different with one shot, going for a portrait photo and then going for a more action based slanted shot to add some dynamism with a little muted vibrancy (oxymoron, ho!):

XJ220 Portrait



Slanted 220



After all that, later on I got another old car I wanted, which coincidentally was one of my first ever Hot Wheels cars when I was 5-6, the BMW 850i. I took it out in the colours of the Hot Wheels car I had (a deep midnight blue with silver 'Spectraflame' silver flaking and golden intricate rims) and ran it into the afternoon and night of Italy:

850 Speed:



Sunset Away



One car I also managed to earn after a nice batch of credits from the Rewards programme was the Bugatti EB110, which I decided to deck out with a custom livery job of my own, making a TRON looking circuit board design. Looked pretty nice with the field blur in front of it:

Circuitry



Not too bad in the dark either.

Night Circuits



Now this next one I am at a loss at how I produced it, but it gave a fun abstract look to the free MX-5 we all got a while back.

Abstracted Lines



My Sagaris, with its custom Pulse paintjob of mine has been sitting in my garage for some time, as it was one of my first Wheelspin car prizes. It's had many runs since then, but I decided to give it another drive out to try some new shots amongst the racing and I produced one of my proudest conceptual pieces after happening upon a poppy field mid free-roam:

Stylized Poppies



There's a few other Sagaris ones in the album link at the start, if you want to see what else I put it through in front of the virtual lens.

Finally, with one last set of images before you all have died from boredom (apologies if you have already...), I did take part in one competition here in the "From Behind" category, using my Lexus LFA. Sadly it miserably failed to make any noise, but I had fun using it and trying some new techniques along with a new Portrait piece (remembering where the watermark would be too so it didn't get in the way...).

Downward Colour



Next is the money shot I took for the aforementioned competition. I was aiming to get the 3 exhaust pipes visible against a dark contrast with the brighter road and night sky. Worked out well in the end I thought:

Contrasted Behind:



And then one further view of the lakeside veranda, shame about the headlights though:

Lakeside Drive:





Well, that is that from me, possibly until Forza 6, but I might go back in and give it one last hurrah in FH2 before September 18th (yeah, later release in the UK, sucks...). Hope you enjoyed the pictures guys and gals and it wasn't too much of a chore.

Until next time!

17 out.

Nice shots of the XJ!

Thanks Viper! Hopefully I will make a few more Screenshots before Forza 6 on Monday night going on the theme of 'Final Run', so lots oglf sunset pieces with a myriad of cars. The XJ will get some attention though.