How could you pple thumbs up this? It looks like a pawn from chess. This style of photography is so overrated.

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!

You're just jealous that you didn't make it your icon first.

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.

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.

Thanks for all the comments about my photo, both positive and negative. Also, thanks for the I was definately not counting on getting that many thumbs when I took the picture.



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



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.



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.



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.

Very poetic

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.

...I mean, how much more black could it be? And the answer is: none. None more black.

This robber goes to 11.

...and the player on that hex complains.

-MMM

It's one louder, innit?

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.

Hi, troll! Want some food?