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This Week's Contest theme by the Gaming Photography Community is Shadow Hunting and for this, I took some photos in theHunter: Call of the Wild.
This was a tough one for me because of the lack of a photo mode in theHunter: Call of the Wild (they need one for sure). You can't control the weather and most of the maps I visited had overcast conditions. I had to spend a lot of money on resting and skipping time so I could get a clear sky for my shots.
Let's go to the Medved-Taiga, the snow map, first. White snow turns out to be a good canvas for our shadows. I had to change the time three times (each costing exponentially more than the last). The first subject for us is my Sheru. He always wants to ruin my shots so I wanted to take his photo first. Maybe after this, he won't try to ruin them...lol.
This map gets covered with snow throughout the day, unlike maps which accumulate snow only after a snowfall. It also has some of the best predators including Grizzly bears and Wolves. I think that's why they have a store room which is above the surface. This structure has always intrigued me... I am not quite sure what's the purpose of this. It's like a birdhouse but too big for those. That's why I said, it might be a store room to keep your belongings safe from Bears or something.
The best shot came from the watch tower. It is the only way to get a bird's eye view of the area and the shadow it casts on the snow is worth sharing.
Now, let's go to Yukon Valley, one of the favourite places to go and hunt in the game. This time we were trying to hunt some shadows. A lone tree standing in the Crimson Valley become my target. Sheru wanted to come into the frame too.
The grass was mostly green on the eastern side of the reserve. There stood a tall watch tower. It was one of the first watch towers I even climbed on this map. But this one wasn't as open as the last one. I had to take an extreme measure and jump out from the top in hopes of taking a couple of pictures before I hit the ground. My death was inevitable and it did happen...so, tell me, was it worth it for this picture?
Talking about deaths, I had an interesting incident with the ATV (No, I didn't light it up in flames again...not while it was still visible at least...lol).
It was a beautiful morning on top of the highest mountain in Silver Ridge Peaks. What was the plan? To sacrifice myself for pictures again. I hopped onto my ATV and tried to go downhill. But there was no road and it was too bumpy.
My ATV did a cool side flip with me and threw me out. Then it went on to do many more flips while going down the slope. I watched it for some time until it was too far and disappeared. Well, at least this time it didn't catch on fire.
I took some more shots driving that ATV. This time I was gentle with it.
The shadows over the slopes looked good. You can see one such example in the first picture. Let me share another one from a different hill. I spent a lot of time in here...got distracted and hunted some animals.
I went to Cuatro Colinas but didn't find good shadows for a long time. Then I had an interesting idea. There is a church on top of a local hill here. The cross on top of the church would be an interesting shadow. So, I had to fiddle with the time a bit (I spent some more cash), and finally, I got what I was looking for. This alone made me tired and I decided to change the map.
I went to Vurhonga Savannah. Some interesting trees in here form good shadows on the ground. I have shared some similar shots before.
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I took some shots of flags too. You can see them on the outposts.
My last destination was Layton Lake District. I had to tweak the time again. Why every map was cloudy today? I wanted to capture the shadow of a live animal this time. A deer would be nice, I thought to myself. But those were cautious and would sense me every time I tried to get close to them. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I decided to call it off. So, I just took this shot from a nearby hunting stand.
It was tiring as I travelled to a lot of reserves, tried to get a clear sky, and not get distracted myself with hunting or finding ways to blow up my ATV. I hope you like it.
Thanks for reading...
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- Screenshots are from the game, theHunter: Call of the Wild.