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I played couple of quick games of Africa last weekend. Africa's one of the first games I ordered from Germany when I started getting that deep in the board game hobby, back in 2003 or so (I think Age of Steam was in the same order).

It's a great game, for a quick two-player filler at least. Too bad the box suggests a much bigger game. Someone should repackage it like the filler the game is.

Anyway, after the games were over, I started playing with my camera and found this lovely backlit angle. The light was low anyway and shooting directly against the light was the only way to get decent shutter speeds and reasonable ISOs.

I came up with couple of composition possibilities, all playing on the backlit black-and-white (turned proper black-and-white in post-processing) silhouette of the solitary explorer pawn. Hope you like them.

One of these is probably my photo of the month candidate, now to choose which one...







This blog post has a soundtrack, too. Enjoy!

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Andreas Krüger
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I think the first one is the best. It has the best compromise of silhouette effect versus game presentation. But the other two are alos quite good....
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  • Posted Mon Jul 4, 2011 6:14 pm
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Lovely shots, Mikko. I like the third best, but they're all great. Great game too.
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Voting for the first one... Tho all three are fantastic.

Speaking of - is there a bigger size picture of that around? That is totally a background candidate for my desktop...
 
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Cheers on the soundtrack!

Low is one of Minnesota's greatest exports.
 
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Thanks for the comments!

You can find the original photos at my Flickr photostream, those should be large enough for just about any desktop.
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No love for number two? I think it has a nice "dark continent" vibe, but I suppose the clarity of #1 and #3 beats that.
 
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