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Legendary Saboteur
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Collection Section.
Ok.
Let me start by saying that the first interest of us collectors and enthusiasts is to get the best pictures up on the front page. now that is clear I'd also like to state that most of us posting up on the site take the site name and intentions as word.
The definition of diorama -
1. a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
2. a life-size display representing a scene from nature, a historical event, or the like, using stuffed wildlife, wax figures, real objects, etc., in front of a painted or photographed background.
3. a spectacular picture, partly translucent, for exhibition through an aperture, made more realistic by various illuminating devices.
4. a building or room, often circular, for exhibiting such a scene or picture, esp. as a continuous unit along or against the walls.
Now let me emphasize that although there is a place for collection pictures, I can't quite understand how they fit into a diorama meaning. Sure if you have say for example a score of 100 cobra soldiers all lined up in a cobra castle with cobra commander stood in front of them.. that would take some effort... but alot of the collection pictures aren't like that..
For the most part we wanted to avoid having window sill and living room table pictures, throw a guy on a random piece of furniture and take a shot thats of 0 quality and no effort. These are the type of shots we (majority) just didnt want on the home page...
I guess it comes down to what you prefer to look at, and most people here appreciate the time most of us put into our pictures, you only have to look at the front page now to see that it's improved drastically in quality from what it was like 2 or so years ago. The home page was littered with random shots sometimes 8 or so in a row of somebodies living room table with figures on.
This might sound like i'm being overly harsh on those that like collection pictures, but i'm not.. if you dont believe me, take a look at my flickr account, theres probably over half of my 2000 photos are collection based, where they are marvels, dcs or gi joe propped up in a light box or side somewhere.. but i dont post them here because I dont think they belong on the homepage.
It's great that we have a collection section, I can't answer why there isnt a link there, from what i recall last time when GS was mod she did put a link someplace or a news bulletin to link to the collection section.. but it's long since fell down in the archives.
Collection pictures do have a place, but the site is predominantly geared towards dio enthusiasts.. that means people who put time and plenty of effort into the setup and execution, not just the pose or the figure selection.. everything from the camera setup to the figures background and environment.
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