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I try to take plenty of pictures of my games. It helps me remember what was going on each turn (I don't take notes usually), and it makes the resulting battle reports that much easier to write.

My question, though, is how do you guys do it? Do you take pictures of the entire board? From the side, from overhead? Do you get into the action and take closeups of various units? Both?

Personally, I try to take an overall picture of the board at deployment and then at the end of every turn. This is to capture the flow of the battle. I usually take the picture standing off to the side, which can be a bit of a problem, since some stuff is obscured and tough to see at times (some examples can be seen on my blog, link in sig). Then I will usually get in close and get pictures of any interesting battles (usually assaults) or interesting units that really stand out.

What do you do?

Multiple angles and a photoshop (well, GIMPshop) treatment to merge them into one canvas.

This is then used to create a 2-d top-down basic image (like vassal) for the battle report (when I can be arsed writing one).

chromedog wrote:Multiple angles and a photoshop (well, GIMPshop) treatment to merge them into one canvas.

This is then used to create a 2-d top-down basic image (like vassal) for the battle report (when I can be arsed writing one).

That is really cool, I never knew you could do that.

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Yeah, I also take a top-down (well, it's much more isometric than that, but you get the point) at the end of every player turn. I then mark it up with photoshop/gimp to provide visual cues as to what has happened that player turn to give people a better idea of what actually happened.

I also usually include a couple of epic pictures, mostly of models charging into close combat or coming in via deepstrike/outflank, etc. Throw in a little narrative and some descriptions of that which is difficult to show in pictures without making them cluttered (such as who shot at what), and the end results are my battle reports.

Nice reports Ailaros.

I definitely like the idea of adding some notations to the pictures themselves. It makes things a lot easier to follow.

I like putting the camera on a tripod in a fixed position, and just snapping one or two pictures on each players turn, give you a nice slide show.

i'd say it depends on the size of the game. i've found that if you're going to add graphics, you should split up the average game (1500-2000) into two pics per player turn and larger sized ones into 3 per player turn. my first few had only two for a 3000pt game and they turned out to be too busy IMO.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/315476.page

in general, i just download them off the camera and then add the graphics in MSpaint or GIMP and upload them to dakka. the color correction that they use is pretty good and i usually just click on the recommended corrected pic. one benefit to hosting them here is that (besides that) is that people can click on them to zoom in if they want to.