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Maybe the ship perhaps or what's under construction perhaps? What I mean is that I can see a faint outline of the saucer, and a little of 'patches' where the ship is under construction, and the 'claw' dock.
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Time for a favorite rant of mine, not really directed at this fine picture.
Dear Star Trek Magazine and associates: I appreciate that you take the time to find lovely ship models on occasion and give us nice big five-view pictures. This is Good. I approve.
However, could you please NOT ATTEMPT TO GUSSY THEM UP WITH DIRECTIONAL LIGHTING!!? This is Bad. I am not in the market for beauty shots of starships at this time. I purchase your magazine on occasion so I can do very sad things like count windows and phaser arrays and point at very tiny markings and say "Aha!" and nod my head knowingly while e-mailing fifty people who are all as sad as I am. This is difficult to do when half the ship is completely shrouded in darkness. Please stop doing this.
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At the risk of sounding obvious, you do know that space is well......dark right? Despite what you see in popular culture, space isn't exactly littered with nebuli, plasma storms, or whatnot. Its very big (see the Hitchhiker's Guide) and very dark. Why would Starfleet waste energy making a shipyard glow like a roman candle?
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Frankly, I couldn't give a toss about what's in space. I want to see the ship somebody drew! Realism can bite me. Right here. No, not there, on the heel, where I can't feel it much.
I've got nothing against beauty shots. They are with the beauty. But if you want me to judge the quality of a piece of art, it helps slightly if I can actually see it, without lots of Fun Lighting and Neat Effects in the way, which turn out almost always to be neither Fun nor Neat.
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Ooh, this is getting a bit touchy. I deliberately made the lighting stronger (I thought), because the older version was too dark.
When I post a picture with high lighting and ambience -no beauty shot, just to show the model, people complain and say- 'the lighting's way off, it's too bright, turn the ambience down, where are the shadows, where's the realism..? etc. I can't win. I give up.
I will be later posting a new image with high lighting and ambience so you can see it better. Ok?
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Sir, I am no artist, only a humble day laborer, but it seems to me that there are two kinds of starship picture. One, the ship in its dramatic environment. These are pretty. Two, the ship presented for inspection. These are also pretty, or so I think, but this is not their primary intention.
Take the above picture. It looks really cool. However, if someone were to ask me my opinion on, say, the relative quality of the under-construction ship, I would be unable to respond, because I cannot actually see it.
But I did not think that that was the point of this particular image, and thus my criticisms are not directed at it, but rather at other issues.
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