Just whining...

[strangetomato]

So I finally have a stretch of uninterrupted time to work on the story this evening, but the scenes I need to shoot are just too involved. I don't feel like doing it. I need to create sets and get the right clothing, etc., and it's just feeling like too much hassle. My brain feels like mush; I can't even figure out how to get the bunkbeds out of the Grand Trianon Collection (I could have sworn there used to be metal ones there, but I can't find them). This is a bad sign. Maybe I should work on some of the scenes that are more immediate. Where's my focus? It's gone. Brain = mush.

I wanted to use Gunmod's Radience Light System for one of the scenes, but I have to confess that the instructions for installing it just confused me and I think I'm chickening out. What if I can't take it back out? I guess I'll have to just leave the beautiful and dramatic sim photography to the people that are actually good at it and settle for being competent but unremarkable.

Verdict for today: massive fail all around. I might as well get out a raft and float down the street to pass the time instead (yeah, it's raining like crazy here). Whhheeeeee!

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks. That's nice of you to say. I think my shots are usually pretty solid from a compositional point of view, but I'd love to be able to do a little more to make them go beyond just straight shots of the game sometimes. I see a lot of lovely things that people do with all these mods and then tweaking or altering them in a photo editing program. You can just do so much more with it.

Mostly, I just have this one scene in mind, and it won't be the same if I just use the straight-up game to recreate it. It's a bit much to add the light mod for one scene, maybe, but it's more just the principle of getting that vision right. (But right now, I'm too lazy to bother, really, so I'll sit on it for a while.)