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Ola Hansson
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The Robber
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J T Leone
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How could you pple thumbs up this? It looks like a pawn from chess. This style of photography is so overrated.
W Shubert
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Wow, I think it's a cool photo.

Any SoC player will see this and immediately know it's not a chess pawn, it's a nasty little robber. :) And he looks great blown up so big!
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jtrleone wrote:
How could you pple thumbs up this? It looks like a pawn from chess. This style of photography is so overrated.


You're just jealous that you didn't make it your icon first.
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whiney snob boy wrote:
How could you pple thumbs up this? It looks like a pawn from chess. This style of photography is so overrated.

This simple "pawn" image invokes the settler in all of us. Proud and majestic yes, but also a lonely warrior holding the line against the cold, unfeeling forces of nature.
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I have to agree (in milder terms) with the original poster. I was suprised this particular photo even made it through mod. (And I'm a Settler's fan.)

I'm all for the macro photo style, although I'm not sure about using a light booth. At first I thought this was another by Jezztek, a rather sklled photographer who has been uploading a lot in this style lately.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browser.php?itemtype=image&sort...
I've given thumbs to several recent additions in this style.

But not this one. Here, there's no context and I agree this pawn is too generic.
Ola Hansson
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Thanks for all the comments about my photo, both positive and negative. Also, thanks for the thumbsup I was definately not counting on getting that many thumbs when I took the picture.

jtrleone wrote:
It looks like a pawn from chess.


I haven't thought of that before but I agree, it's pretty similar.

jtrleone wrote:
This style of photography is so overrated.


Maybe so, but I think a game needs both these types of photos and more traditional photos of the game in play etc. When looking through the image gallery I didn't find a close-up of the robber. Therefor I took the photo both to practice macro photography and to contribute to BGG.

wmshub wrote:
And he looks great blown up so big!


I think so to! I was surprised when I first looked at the photo that it turned out so well. I haven't had much success with macro photography before.

jgrundy wrote:
I'm all for the macro photo style, although I'm not sure about using a light booth.


What I used was a white piece of paper and the lamp on my desk. I then used photoshop to make the background completely white. A macro photo of the robber in it's natural environment would probably be at least as good. However, when taking this picture I wanted to show the robber by itself and I also thought it would be a nice contrast with the black and white. It was also partly for me to practice taking this type of photo.
Ola Hansson
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jimu wrote:
This simple "pawn" image invokes the settler in all of us. Proud and majestic yes, but also a lonely warrior holding the line against the cold, unfeeling forces of nature.


Very poetic :)
J T Leone
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Haha, love the dialogue. Oh wait, I'm on the anti-side! Grr! Haha. I should take more pictures with my camera and PS it too, so I can get an avatar.
Björn Hansson
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...I mean, how much more black could it be? And the answer is: none. None more black.
Geoff King
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This robber goes to 11.
Matthew M. Monin
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...and the player on that hex complains.

-MMM
Björn Hansson
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Venton wrote:
This robber goes to 11.


It's one louder, innit?
Daniel Corban
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You know how it is... a black pawn "loots" resources while a white pawn just "finds" them.

George Bush doesn't care about black pawns.
jtrleone wrote:
How could you pple thumbs up this? It looks like a pawn from chess. This style of photography is so overrated.

Hi, troll! Want some food?
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