The Art of Video Game Photography

[@johnblanco5837]

Honestly, one of the best gaming channels out there.

[@eurothug4000]

You’re too kind! Thank you :)

[@xxedgy_outsiderxx9978]

ikr i love when youtubers talk more about the non violent side of the games

[@GHANI_FAIZAN_7897]

Yes, and it was the truth. This channel is just beutyfull

[@DavetheTurnip]

Wow. I enjoy screenshotting when I play games but didn’t realize photo modes were so in-depth, and have the community pushing what they can do. Fascinating 😃

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you!

[@grahamxiii]

Me on game take hours just for get virtualphotography shoot 🤣

[@kenanKTV]

Dropped a like so itll get pushed more! awesome v-essay 👌

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you so much!! 😭😭

[@jessehunter362]

endless ocean and endless ocean blue world are my favorite video games with photography! The grading of the photography is fairly controlled, but you had to spend time looking for the particular subject, and it really drew you into the environment and the movements of the fish, which- while limited by today’s standards, being respectively 2007 and 2010 games for the wii, still holds a great deal of beauty for me. It’s not a photography game, really, but having a first-person photography mechanic really helped it

[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

Great video, really nicely edited! I *love* photo mode. As something of an amateur _stereoscopic_ photographer, photo mode lends itself REALLY well to making 3D stereo photos from games! So I'm always a little sad when a beautiful looking game doesn't have photo mode!

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you!!! And same, I was one of the people begging for Death Stranding to have a photo mode 😂😭

[@sanelchanel5820]

7:53 This is absolutely stunning 🔥 it inspires me to take some photos like this on my own!

[@iknaifnawif]

the second Umurangi Generation came on-screen I was way more into it, loved that game

[@eurothug4000]

It’s such a good game!!

[@Just_a_Snake]

OH MY GOD I've been waiting for someone to talk about this, I love taking photos that can be enjoyed without the context of the game I'm taking them in. I think there is a huge potential for this stuff and I'm so glad you made this video.

[@ThorShaker]

I feel exactly the same! Thank you very much for this video.

[@Darkfry]

I don't have an eye for aesthetics much but even I can appreciate the sheer eye candy that came from photo modes and the stuff you've mentioned, I really do believe that games like Death Stranding and Ghost of Tsushima will inspire many photography careers. Great video as always!

[@eurothug4000]

Thanks so much!!!

[@fridgegremlin5496]

I pretty much taught myself photography through FFXIV’s vanilla photo mode, No Man’s Sky, Ghost of Tsushima, and many other games. I’ve fallen in love with the subject matter of assets people don’t really look at, like drying racks, baskets, or teapots. They’re often lovingly placed, and I can’t bring myself to just ignore that.

[@MortalGlare]

For the algorithm! A wonderful video as always.

[@eurothug4000]

thank you so much! :)

[@gmg9010]

Out of all the people that Razbuten has recommended I’d say you are my favorite you’re topics are really interesting and your voice is so calming

[@MrHammers]

Amazing essay as always, top notch stuff

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you! 😭❤️

[@TonyRedgrave-of9od]

Video game photography has become a new genre, creating art within that art.

[@CodeNameAlison]

I don’t know if you check comments on old videos but this is one of my favorite videos. Great job

[@TheShadowhawk442]

That was a great Video! I never thought about abusing certain InGame Moments like Smokebombs or Low-Health Effects to create more interesting photos. I will try that out in the future. Some really helpful tips there. I will also try to take more photos of weird looking Glitches in Games, because of the possible Imagery you can achieve with those. I have one Photo in AC: Origins where a giant Boat started to fly in the Sky, it looked weird and i really liked it, but this Video gave me the idea to actually use the opportunity if such moments happen to create something really bizarre.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you! I’m glad this video helped! Making it definitely made me think of more ways to spice up my in-game photography too :)

[@shkhrvarshney]

Oh I got that one too. The flying Dutchman lmao. I got it in AC: Black Flag

[@joshy-noha]

I remember I once stumbled upon a post on an old gaming forum when I was a kid, that had picturesque photos of scenery from GTA San Andreas taken with the in-game camera, and I loved it. I started using the game's camera as well, and started taking pictures of cool horizons and lonely houses on the outskirts of town and they were all saved on the game folder. Also, one of my very first Facebook posts as a kid was an album of various cool game screenshots, from games I had at the time like Halo and Battlefield 1942 that had really nice maps, colors and backrounds. This video made me remember all of that, and I will probably go take more pictures on various games again. Keep up the amazing content!

[@DanielSantosAnalysis]

On top of this being a beautiful video, you get a million brownie points for using the FF8 OST.

[@eurothug4000]

AYY THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@KhaosKontroller]

Great to see VP love on KZbin as well! I've been honing my skills with it since 2017 and it's one of my favourite parts of gaming nowadays. I get pretty sad when a beautiful game doesn't have a photo mode.

[@WorstAvenger]

I know you made this a while ago but I just want to compliment you on the quality of this video, subscribed!

[@EldenRinging]

Thank you, what a great video! I'm super new to this, I'm just like 50 snaps in, but to me, "Horizon Forbidden West" has been an unexpected creative revelation in the past days and weeks. To find a hobby within the hobby feels amazing and each and every shot I take that I deem good fills me with joy and pride! ✌️ Also: Virtual photography is as artistic as animated movies are, I would argue. ❤️

[@gabehere]

Your voice is so soothing, and you make the topics so much more endearing to explore! What a find! Thanks to SuperEyepatchWolf for letting me find you!

[@wizawhat]

I was not expecting to be as engrossed in this as I was. Super interesting concept and you covered it really well!

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you so much!! :)

[@NickolaiBoulton]

Severely impressed with the sheer quality of this video, thank you for making something so robust and pristine

[@eurothug4000]

thank you!! this means a lot! 😭

[@Zoltiboi]

Whenever I see photo mode in a game (like in Hellblade), I think to myself "meh, other aspects of the game are just too good for me to mess around with this tool", but I think I finally understand the beauty of video game photography now.. I'm so hyped to try it out the next time I play a game that has photo mode.Thank you for this insightful video!

[@eurothug4000]

Haha that's what I used to think too! I'm glad I could offer a different perspective! :)

[@ieatatsonic]

very lovely. I really appreciate the "End of the Virtual World" series, as it really captivates me with scenes that can't be done in real life but feel natural due to the photographer being an observer in that virtual world and not the creator. My favorite game of all time, The Witness, has some beautiful scenery that has made me want to take pictures of it, I wish the game had its own photo mode now.

[@eurothug4000]

thank you! I absolutely love The Witness’ art style, a photo mode would be amazing!

[@alesstrem]

Long ago, when i was a kid on the 80's i knew somehow without understanding, how could captured those specific moments in a game like a mental picture. In the middle 90's games like Resident Evil or Silent Hill gave me many moments to press Pause and enjoy the beauty of the shots, while I was trying to figure out, how can I capture this moment? Then The Sims came and a friend an me started to create a story of some characters we had create in the game and give them chatting bubbles to make them interact and screenshot every single situation. I knew back then i wanted to capture beautiful images, so few years later i became a Filmmaker. And games like The Last of Us or Journey make me believe i wasn't the only one with that weird sensation when i was kid. Now there is a "career" as Videogame photographer.... Finally a dream came true.

[@matthewsant4439]

Found your channel a year ago with the animal love letter to animal crossing. Super underrated channel, keep up the good work.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you for your support!

[@BlighHedges]

I have played around with photo mode in a few games so far, but this video really opened up how much more I can push the medium. Thankyou for that :) really enjoyed it.

[@eurothug4000]

thank you! :)

[@axdonat]

checking the view count and seeing only 13k is so strange, this is truly the underrated channel and i am so glad i found it. I keep sending it to my friends hoping that they'll fall in love as well

[@mrbluemd7602]

You've really made me think more about the in-game screenshots I take. Since originally watching your video, I've taken considerably more screenshots while playing games and have even started compiling my favourites in a dedicated photo album. Thank you for continuing to inspire.

[@amojojo4642]

I've been doing photography in Second Life for about 5 years now, and you would be blown away at what some creators and photographers are able to do now. The photography community is huge, flickr is the main space to showcase your work, but there are also galleries setup in world as well. I would love to expand though, try different virtual worlds or possibly games. This was a great starting point, so thank you!

[@timeloopplays]

I will always send this video to any "non-believers" of virtual photography, I've been a photographer for almost a decade and a VP for 2 years and this video puts words where I could not, like I personally would struggle to explain both worlds as you have. Thank you

[@JCofDI]

Great video! After stumbling onto Dead End Thrills years ago, I dabbled in built-in photo modes myself without being aware of the wider community or all the tools available. Even 3 years later this video has been a great guide down the rabbit hole. Thank you!

[@ComiskeyProjects]

I had this idea for doing a video on game photography, but never had the confidence to dive into it fearing I couldnt do the topic justice. Keep up the amazing work your channel deserves so much more lovs and subscribers

[@Weighty68]

Wow, Maria, WOW! There’s one thing to make a video essay. One thing to voice the script out beautifully and get guest talent to further extract that vision. But, to make a video essay as visually and aesthetically pleasing as this, it just speaks to the strength of your direction and how the emotional core of the video soars ever higher with the prettiness to match. This video was like getting a glimpse into a sectioned off room of a museum noting all the art that lies within, but due to the barrier, we only get a portal into that world. Fantastic work as always!

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you so much for this comment 😭 this is making me emotional TO THE NEXT LEVEL. I’m always super critical of myself so it’s really nice to hear positive feedback like this ❤️Thank you for all your support!

[@Weighty68]

eurothug4000 Absolutely anytime queen! Always overjoyed to leave comments and help any way I can cuz YOU DESERVE IT. Can’t wait to see what’s next 🥺

[@rioticgamer3663]

Oh, wow! Didn't expect my post at 8:12 to be here, this totally caught me by surprise 😅 Thank you so much, earned a sub as well!

[@eurothug4000]

haha I was wondering if the people whose shots I showed would ever watch the vid! thank you for watching 😁

[@rioticgamer3663]

@@eurothug4000 Very much welcome 😊

[@hypnovike]

Love these video game essays on subjects that I would normally ignore or not even consider in most video games I play!

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you for watching!!

[@fakajuu9519]

Absolutely my favourite development in game features.

[@jasoncurran1000]

A brilliant game that this video reminded me of is Eastshade. It's a game about being a painter visiting a beautiful island and your main goals are just to paint specific places that your mother loved. Its one of the most pleasant games iv ever played and judging by your channel I think you'd love it :) The game doesn't have a robust photo mode or anything but the ability to create paintings of anything you see made me reflect on how I see the world and how beauty can be found everywhere Great video btw.

[@25.8gd]

As a photography student with really bad social anxiety, this video really does open a whole new world and a very interesting perspective when looking at video games. Some of the biggest influences of my photo work has come from video game, however certain ideas are impossible to replicate in the real world. However, with a virtual world, a lot of the social constraints are lifted and I'm able to truly explore my creativity to the best that the game can handle. This video truly expanded my view of what it means to screenshot something in a video game and turning it into art and I hope my photography professor can see this and accept it as a real form of photography/art.

[@les9528]

i freaking loved this video, thank you ♡

[@tomas.bednar]

I was looking for nice high-res gaming wallpapers to print for my office, but you took me through the rabbit hole and I will be taking my own :-)

[@sigmathecool]

I never had much taste for in-game photo modes. Not that I couldnt appreciate the cool pictures being taken, but rather I felt no want to use them beyond catching the "prepared" shot that devs set-up for certain moments. But that all changed when I started Final Fantasy XIV last March. Early on I still didnt feel too much of a desire to capture screenshots besides snapping a pic of a some milestones I hit. But as I became more social in game and I began to make friends that desire grew. I wanted to get screenshots of things I did with my newfound friends, and to also showoff my new glamours or cool landscapes. As I did this I'd be exposed to some really good screenshots from other people online, whether they be random people or my own friends. This drove me to grow my skills with the in-game photo mode.

[@sleepinbelle9627]

No Man's Sky is one of my favourite games to play photographer in. I love finding weird creatures or interesting world generation and trying to frame photos around it, trying to get a decent shot of the sea oxen that live on this burning planet where there's fire in the ocean.

[@JohannesVIII]

I think I finally understand the appeal of photo mode now. May actually give it a try thanks to you

[@eurothug4000]

you should definitely give it a go! :) it’s fun messing around with the different options!

[@thisninja11]

I absolutely adored this video! Your channel is amazing! When the pandemic hit, my chances to go out and take some shots dropped, which left me really sad and wanting to do so some photography every day. When I started plying Control, and found out it has a photo mode, I have spent more time taking photos than playing the game haha. The brutalist architecture and the lighting that game has created captured me entirely, and I think I have a whole catalog of photos from every level/area of the map.

[@tiny-pq2cs]

I’ve just recently started studying photography at university, this video was so amazing!

[@andrelucca3369]

I´m so happy that I found an essay-like video about this topic that I, literally, was introduced yesterday after getting addicted with Cyberpunk 2077´s Photo mode.I wanted more so here I am, knowing that exists an entire internet culture about Gaming Photography and I couldn´t be more excited. I loved the video and just seeing the titles of the others just makes me more and more excited about them, thanks for that. Hugs from Brazil

[@765media]

Great video! It’s opened up my mind in the world of virtual photography

[@tadakimasu]

Thanks for introducing a paradigm I tbh wouldn't even give a thought about. I enjoy your perspectives and research to give a detailed kaleidoscope on the topic.

[@LetsCrashThisParade]

And one more comment for the day 😂 I get OBSESSED with ingame photography especially ever since Apider-Man PS4 and more recently The Last of Us 2. I do think that it holds legitimacy among real life photography because though we aren't creating the world's within - we do create how it's framed in photography (game or not.) And I think that's what it's about, what's in (and out of) frame; finding beauty in things that weren't necessarily made to be beautiful. And the fact that you can find distinguished looks from person to person like with the couple examples of gaming photographers you showed, proves that one can have vision in games beyond just what the developers planned for. In game photography can bring imagination and beauty to aspects of games that weren't there before. I also particularly love in game photography because I'm just a super stupidly anxious person - I used to do photography a bit with a big and clunky proper DSLR camera out in public, but I'd always get embarassed. I always feel self conscious taking real life photos and feel judged and feel like I'm being watched. What makes it worse is that a lot of the time if I were doing real life photography I'd typically prefer to shoot everyday normal things out in suburban streets and stuff like that - you know.. were a lot of people are.. And I HATE doing anything in front of anybody. So it's quite the problem lol. With ingame photography, there's no need to worry! Its all artificial, but still brings me that sense of creativity and achievement when I make something awesome

[@eurothug4000]

I totally agree!! Although you word it a lot better than I do! I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, thank you!

[@LetsCrashThisParade]

@@eurothug4000 nah you said some of it yourself in the video plus you're the one that started the discussion haha. Just keep up the awesome work! I'll make sure to keep an eye out

[@ChrisAkaMastermind]

I just replayed control and fell head first into the photo mode. I do some photography in real life so i tried it in the game and i made some stuff im really proud of. This was the perfect video to start watching your channel. Gonna keep doing that now.

[@jprgaming8]

Spectacular video. I love capturing gaming moments in Photo Mode.

[@eurothug4000]

thank you!! :)

[@Entre_Consolas]

I love using photomode in every game I can. It is very relaxing and even though I’m not at it it makes me happy to capture those moments

[@marigoldedits2638]

This was awesome. Thank you! As someone who's started using photomode to "film" things for edits and just love photography in general, this was brainfood. I definitely want to go play umurangi generation now.

[@lephoquebleu8302]

Had this video in my Watch Later playlist since September, glad I finally watched it, liked and subscribeeeed now, I want to replay Spidey and Death Stranding hehe PS : That acoustic Love Deterrence still hurts, damn

[@fcoutts14]

I had already decided to subscribe to you after the Silent Hill 3 video, but after watching this I'm very glad I discovered this channel. As a photographer and someone who's always had a deep appreciation for videogames, I have spent years developing my virtual photography both within games with dedicated photo modes and ones without as a way of creating unity between two art forms I feel passionate about. This is the video I hadn't realised I was missing or needed to see. I've been absent from my neverending virtual photography hobby for months now because of feeling too overwhelmed with everything (the whole pandemic thing hasn't really helped). However, watching this video has allowed me to see virtual photography in a different light and inspired me to dive back into it (currently working on Jedi: Fallen Order). Keep up the fantastic work, and I'll be sure to check out the rest of your videos! - F.Coutts

[@thewanderingartists]

I've spent 100 hours in death stranding, and reached Episode 8 but I spent about 30 hours taking photos. It's a wonderful game

[@newtripleyplat9712]

This video reminds me of how I suddenly saw a realy nice view in uncharted 4 and spent like 30 min taking a picture. When I was done, I set it as my background picture and a friend said that it was really cool and felt proud of it

[@BlackMacross]

Love this video, good to see this "art form" grow from Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim Screenarchery to photomodes in modern games! No hate, just love!

[@sosahaus5999]

who remembers going into a private match on halo 3 and using the command to put down your guns and then throwing like health orbs and those blue electricity thing and all theses other equipment for insanely artsy screenshots.. halo 3 was insane witht he screenshot mode.. i spent hours making my spartan look at cool as possible. wish she would of talked about this it was a huge part of the game for me.

[@strontiumblog]

This is amazing, thank you for making a wonderful video on a fascinating topic! I always wondered how art and history would be different if cameras had existed 1000s of years ago, and games like Assassin’s Creed and Ghost of Tsushima provide a great insight.

[@ibbandflow]

Overweg's use of glitches kind of reminds me of Kristoffer Zetterstrand, the guy who did Minecraft's paintings. Glitches in general are probably my favorite unique aspect of virtual photography as a medium. When I'm playing Umurangi Generation, I find that my favorite photos that I takemouth or hair. To me, that's about as unique as a video game photo can be.

[@eurothug4000]

I agree, there’s just something so surreal about glitches in game worlds! They can often be a fleeting moment too so catching those photos at the right time can be difficult!

[@tellemsteve-dave4276]

This channel needs more subscribers. Once I'm able to, I'll be supporting you on Patreon.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you! But you don’t need to, I appreciate that you watch and enjoy the vids! ☺️

[@khalidwaleed2362]

Wow, I didn't think the topic would be this deep

[@johnd5149]

Personally, I’m more interested in photography for games that don’t go for that triple-A realistic look. Breath of the Wild would be fantastic with a photo mode, and Super Mario Odyssey’s is pretty sweet. I’m curious to see a low-poly photography game that makes up for its lack of graphical fidelity with expansive creativity in terms of composition and whatever else

[@johngreen8344]

So far, the only game I have for my Switch is Breath Of The Wild. Without an SD card, the limit for photos on the system is 1000. I exhausted that limit in the first three hours. BOTW is far too beautiful for its own good, in the best of ways. The problem now is having to agonise over which photos to get rid of, when something special happens. In a way, it gave me an incentive to hold off taking photos of every sunset I could find, but I fear what’ll happen when I get more games to fight for space in the album.

[@conheaton1111]

Thank you so much for this video! I haven't seen anything on this subject done so well, and it made me want to hop right back into Ghost of Tsushima and get snapping. Also I just happened to look at the works of Petri, so it's a weird coincidence to see him mentioned here!

[@DerLaberheld]

Just as it is the case with real world photography, photo modes in video games can be distracting from the moment itself and its authenticity in freezing and staging it for the perfect yet artificial shot. In Red Dead 2 I found myself disrupting the flow of the gameplay more often than even I myself enjoyed at times, because the game was just too beautiful to let it slip by. That gets especially dangerous in one time cut scenes, that would require my attention instead of waiting for the right moment to pause and take a picture. On the other hand, a game actually waits for me until Ive found the optimal light and angle, while life continues without me. Actually just graphic fidelity alone has gotten me to view reality differently. After admiring reflections on wet surfaces and detailed textures of dirt and gravel in games, I can appreciate the incredible richness of detail in the real world, where before Id have shrugged at the decorated houses and flourishing parks. And, like you said, photo modes even increase that awareness, in games as well as in the real world. Even more so, because its a virtual world treated like reality, which is my favourite idea presented in this video. Thank you for this once again very well developed and presented take on a once again very interesting and fresh topic. I wish you the best and am looking forward to what you think about next.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you for sharing! I’m very happy you enjoyed the video :)

[@Cannotbetamed1]

Great video. I love what some people are doing with game photo modes even if I personally have no desire to do anything more time consuming then click a take screenshot button. I do love photography as a mechanic though.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you! I’d love to see photography as a mechanic develop, I’m just super excited to see what’s to come :)

[@wolborg105]

Just found your channel. This is so validating omg I spend hours upon hours in photo modes. Editing in this is fantastic, instant subscribe

[@bamboofighting4576]

Great video. I generally enjoy photography games and some photo modes in open world games for similar reasons, though I've lately been wondering if their application in some games, where they don't fit the time period or setting (Tsushima for example) can work as a detriment to the game's world, damaging the immersion as a resident of the world by turning you into a tourist simply visiting the world, stopping to take photos of the pretty scenes for Twitter and Instagram rather than existing within them. It's why I rarely take photos on holiday, yet have succumbed to the trap of doing it in games far too often. I do need to check out that photography game you mentioned here that I've forgotten the name of already though, aha, looks really cool.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you! That's a really interesting perspective, I haven't thought about that! (it's Umurangi Generation ;) I highly recommend it!)

[@bamboofighting4576]

@@eurothug4000 oh btw, have you seen some the Final Fantasy XIV photography people are producing? Some of it is really nice, and it's a real beautiful world for it.

[@mewfeuille]

Been getting through your videos slowly, and I particularly love this one. I'm a writer by trade, and something I've learned about good criticism is that being interested in disciplines beyond your own is almost required in order to bring a new perspective that treats the work with the respect it deserves. Games are inspired by film, photography, music, architecture, etc as much as other games, and you do yourself a service by being as interdisciplinary as possible if you want to discuss them critically. I say all this to say: you are doing just that, and it's what makes your videos so good!

[@RSTINK07]

this video is great! ive loved taking photos in games forever now and this really addressed the beauty photos can emit, even in games.

[@catsarethebest36]

I have no idea why but I am obsessed with in-game handheld cameras that you can take photos with, especially in open world games, I guess it might be because it looks cool, or because it keeps the photo taking more realistic, etc. I especially love in-game cameras that have a certain feel to it like 35mm film, VHS, super 8 film as examples.

[@johngreen8344]

Have you played Concrete Genie? Having the freedom to paint on any wall is amazing, especially how the creatures, trees and flowers grow and come to life as you create them, but through the photo mode, you can see the art being painted into existence, in the same order they were painted originally. Also, Sam Marshall’s music, coupled with the visuals of the game, both set the stage for a breathtakingly beautiful experience. Thank you for the video and I hope you have a fantastic day.

[@eurothug4000]

I haven’t played it but I remember being super interested when I saw the trailer! I’ll have to give it a go :) sounds amazing!

[@johngreen8344]

I hope you enjoy it! Concrete Genie came out on the same date as the Medievil remake, but both games had a severe lack of marketing, in deference for some of the bigger titles. The game has this amazing system, where the aura of each area changes colour, as you make your mark on the walls. I don’t want to give too much away, but I promise you’ll be in for a fun time. All the best!

[@LambHoot]

yo that peace walker music 👌🔥 This is a really great video, the profiles on the couple of artists was really neat. These photo modes are sick and I admit I’ve been using them a lot recently (in tlou2 especially), but I remember seeing a gdc talk by the designer of Prompto’s ai photographer and it was so cool to see how many tools they had and how it was all automatic. It’s super cool when the designers find ways to integrate the photos into the story/gameplay, like in FFXV where it showed the photo locations on your map, or in the other photography games you demonstrated. Damn, really cool topic for an essay! 🙏

[@eurothug4000]

thank you so much!! I literally cannot help incorporating Kojima into my vids somehow shshshhs Damn I totally forgot about the automatic photos in FFXV, there are so many more things I wish I included in this vid 😭The topic is wayyyy bigger than I initially thought so I’m actually hoping I see a lot more discussions about this sort of thing!

[@Tentacle]

Whilst you briefly touched upon it with the inclusion of GT, sports games often have free-cams implemented for players that may wish to photograph and archive certain achievements or replays. I think I still have a few pictures saved from FIFA 2010 via my EA account funny enough. Good luck with future content.

[@Lyoh_]

Great video! I'm glad you tackled this subject

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you!

[@KoeSeer]

I've been doing this "video game photography" since I got my hands on TES4: Oblivion. The world was so immersive you can't help but use console command to free camera yourself. Since then, I've been screenshotting games from Fallout 3, Skyrim, Warframe, World of Tanks, even Genshin. But funny enough I just heard this term last week.

[@Ronphyxia]

You just earned a new subscriber. Feels like I found a gem of a channel 💎

[@Primzed2]

I've been pretty much hooked on photo modes since Uncharted 4, your vids are such high quality keep up the great work!

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you so much!

[@ericvargas5362]

great video! in my degree of visual arts, ive done my final presentation about this subject and made an entire photo exibition with GTAV photos taken by the ingame cellphone camera, as i think i should get a lot more atention and respect among visual arts

[@eurothug4000]

wow that sounds amazing! it definitely deserves way more respect, in-game photography can be incredibly impressive and is valid as an art form no matter what!

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

This is really awesome, I actually found some inspiration for myself to do video game photography at 1080p, because that's how far my gaming PC system will go, it's always fascinating to show viewpoints of different games in ways that has never been seen before. I want to focus my efforts of action shots on games that people never really did video game screenshots much with, such as Street fighter, classic racing games, and games on the dolphin emulator, so many possibilities are on the rise. Thank you for this.

[@sku11ss10]

Wanted to come back to this video after getting back into taking game screenshots. The 3 death stranding pictures you showed at the start are amazing keep up the great work 💜

[@EbonPhantasma]

Love this video so much. I've never been the best with photography but this really helped me think about ways I can take better shots.

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you so much!

[@benjamancini]

Came here thanks to Super Eyepatch Wolf! And now I need to buy Umurangi Generation.

[@minkhantnaing4622]

Very nice content.This is the first video game content I watched without skipping a single sec.Very well presented.

[@vinie.-z.3565]

Man, amazing video. Your channel is really underrated!

[@olliereynoldsr]

just came after supereyepatchwolf said to check out your channel and holy fuck he was right, your videos are incredibly high quality, imma be binging all ur videos tonight, keep up the great work

[@zerokontentsu7017]

Half of the fun and enjoyment I had in games comes from photomode, from landscape to lust forest, cars (in the case of racing games) to the mundane or the glitchfest. Even in the real world, I would take pictures of the sky or very mundane sceneries. I wouldn't consider myself a professional by any means but I love and appreciate the craft of both irl and game photography

[@gregwxst]

Easily one of the best gaming channels with such varied content, keep it up!

[@ingamekamera9269]

Very nice vid! Good to know there's a thriving community for this genre of photography. Looking forward to watching more from this channel.

[@luqizord]

I've been doing quite a lot of VG photohraphy and you captured the essence of it quite well :)

[@miga1018]

The only KZbinr I know that has a video with 0 dislikes, definitely deserved with the quality of videos!

[@rosaria8384]

When I started Genshin Impact in 2020, I wanted to bring it to a more artistic form through snapshots, even though its photo mode is severely limited. For two years I've been taking pics of Genshin, Forza Horizon, and other games I find to be interesting. Virtual Photography is really powerful.

[@Brown2099]

Really enjoyable video, thanks for the entertainment! Also made me want a photo mode for The Witcher 3 on console :)

[@eurothug4000]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@sleepycreator]

I really love this! I'm a bit surprised that inFAMOUS Second Son wasn't brought up as one of the early PS4 games with photo mode. Bc of that game, I really love when photo mode is available.

[@SpencerYan]

An interesting choice in subjects, and excellent presentation and writing as usual! This topic is pretty close to me as someone who's long been interested in what some describe as "video game tourism", of which I personally consider virtual photography to be a closely-related experience/discipline. I'm not much of a photographer myself but I love shooting videos of landscapes and nature walks; there are particular challenges unique to each (in a similar manner to the quote you featured about the particular nuances of setting up and shooting photos in virtual vs physical spaces) but I find that the overall philosophy tends to be pretty similar, and I think your essay here has done a wonderful job covering that in a way that seems broad enough to feel inclusive, while preserving the sense of beauty and wonder which serves as the essence I think of all of these separate approaches. I'm glad to hear that, in learning more about photography for this video itself, you were able to develop a greater appreciation for the finer, often unseen details in games. That's the exact kind of stuff I personally feel, ironically enough, is most human in any work: the functionally superfluous details that were carved by a human hand (well, whether physically or in Substance Painter lmao) purely for their own sake. By drawing more attention to and appreciation for those kinds of details -- which exist in nearly every game from something as overtly artistic in its aspirations as, say, Red Dead Redemption 2 to even the most commercially-minded of games like Modern Warfare -- I think as a whole we can begin to reclaim the deeply human and individual elements of works, which is important at every level of course but which I think has particular resonance when discussing the present fatigue with AAA in a lot of circles. I also find your framing of Ghost of Tsushima as such a strong focal point of this essay to be pretty interesting, and I'm glad to discover (well, to one's surprise I suppose) that you covered it with nuance and grace! I went into Ghost expecting it to be the exact kind of game I usually love -- a beautiful Ubisoft-style open world with hyperrealistic graphics and a focus on sprawl over density -- but I actually felt rather disappointed by it in that regards. As others have mentioned in the comments, and which you alluded to in the video, I found the overall sense of beauty and contemplation a bit too cloying and even cynical to a degree. The intense and very explicit focus around the game's obvious beauty -- in everything from the marketing (and for Ghost, I'd actually count most of the photo hashtags as a kind of very deliberately cultivated and constructed viral marketing phenomenon) to the in-game mechanics and framing, some of which you touched upon briefly with the vistas, but which I'd also include the haikus and stuff in -- felt like it was drawing way too much attention to the artificial nature of, well, the game's presentation of nature; and that constantly disrupted my sense of immersion, for lack of a better description, within the attempted experience of sublimity. "Masturbatory" is probably too strong of a negative to use but it definitely felt somewhere in between that and a kind of gleeful self-indulgence. Usually I'm more than willing to forgive that, but Ghost never really felt to me like it achieved or even aspired to anything beyond that, so I'm personally inclined to read it as probably a bit more cynical in its intent and execution alike. In any case -- keep on keeping on! Looking forward to your next video as usual...

[@eurothug4000]

Just wanna say I’m totally floored by your comment and how I wish I had your mind and writing skill SHSHSHHSHSHS I’m definitely having the same experience as you in terms of GoT, in the sense that the beauty never feels naturally occurring but rather perfectly crafted. Which in turn makes the environment feel slightly less enjoyable in a way? Like for a photo mode it’s great, but playing the game felt like an afterthought weirdly. Anyway, thank you so much for your comment! I really enjoy these discussions and you put some of the same sentiments I had into words perfectly! (something I struggle with a lot 😭)

[@zacariascisneros6399]

Really Good video! Speaking about Gran Turismo, I started with virtual photography (and I still do) with Gran Turismo 6 for the PS3 (just because I don't own a PS4) I ended the GT Mode in month and a half. I had a lot of money, a lot of cars, but I didn't know what to do when I finished the career mode, until I tried the Photo Mode/Travel of the game. Even with the hardware limitations, because of the age, I've been able to take some interesting photos of my cars. I still play the game, but sometimes I don't even get a car to race or drive really, I just stay in Photo Mode.