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Forza Motorsport’s graphics are impressive; The cars look amazing and from the hours I’ve spent customizing them, applying decals and choosing wheels, I really appreciate that it has a powerful photo mode. But what’s more, Forza occasionally organizes decoration and photography contests and shows the winners on its home page. So if you’re up for it, or just want to put your cars on your wallpapers, here are some tips that could improve your photography in Forza Motorsport.
Photo Mode Tips and Tricks – Forza Motorsport
Forza Motorsport’s photo mode has many effects that are intended to emulate a real-world camera. I haven’t found use in all of them, but I’ll mention those I found important in the list below.
To enter the effects panel, press Y on your Xbox gamepad or R on your PC keyboard. You can return to photo mode by pressing the same key.
Quick note: I recently realized that I can use photo mode to take a good look at the car when I’m working on configuration changes. If I want to see how the suspension behaves, if the front end bottoms out under hard braking or if the body leans too much to one side during a high-speed corner, I can quickly open the menu and switch to photo mode. The camera will allow me to rotate around the vehicle and examine its behavior in paused mode.
shutter speed
The speed at which the camera captures an image. In Forza Motorsport, the numbers are inverted from a real camera, and a higher number means a longer exposure time. If you’re not into photography, all you need to understand is that the higher the number, the more motion blur will appear in the background (or anything else). No in focus). If, on the other hand, you see the background still and the movement of the cars blurred, it is because your focus is too far back; you need to go back to Photo mode and press Focus while aiming at your vehicle.
Opening
Emulates the aperture of lenses. The higher this parameter, the blurrier the background will appear. This is different from motion blur that you get when something in the photo moves and you can combine the two to get a different result. Think of a portrait or a movie, when the character is perfectly in focus but the background is blurry and the lights look like colored bubbles. That should be the effect of a high aperture. However, Forza Motorsport doesn’t have a great opening simulation, so it starts to feel strange when you crank it up too much.
Turning on
If you’re going to take pictures of your new car, it’s best to choose an event and a track that has good lighting. This usually occurs in the afternoon or early morning, when the sun’s rays are oblique and cast softer shadows, rather than the dark ones caused by the midday sun. Here’s an example of a photo taken at midday, to show how the car looks dark and unfavorable under vertical light:
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Another lighting option is to use car headlights to add shapes or lighting to a night scene. Here is an example:
Camera height
Changing the height of the camera can create different results or inspire new ideas. Try to get very close to the ground to make the car look imposing, or even show the sky and crowd in the background. Or raise the camera higher to capture reflections on windshields or show more of the vehicle. Playing with this can help you discover all kinds of eye-catching options.
Composition
Objects don’t always have to be centered. If you draw imaginary lines to divide the frame into three parts per side, you will get four points where those lines intersect. It is known that if your photo has important information about any of those four points, it will be more attractive to the human eye.
Camera tilt
The “roll” function in Photo mode allows us to tilt the camera to the sides. From a composition standpoint, most of the time we want to make sure the photo is straight. Use the horizontal or vertical lines you see in the image to check if you are correctly leveled or if the camera is tilted. I use vertical poles on the track or the rear wings of the cars as reference.
Other times, a voluntary lateral turn of the camera can be surprising and add drama to the image. Such is the case of the previous image (the car), where the car was making a sharp curve and I tilted the image to intensify the sensation of movement.
Lens zoom
When you change the zoom, you are not only moving closer or further away from your subjects, but you are also changing the perspective. You’ve probably noticed how your phone’s front camera makes your nose bigger when it’s at wide angle, and that when we use a full zoom camera our faces look squarer or flatter. The same effect can be achieved with Forza Motorsport’s Photo mode: if you want the car to look elongated and deformed (almost cartoon-like), you can place the camera close to the nose of the vehicle and move it as far away as you can (image below ). ).
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If, on the other hand, you want the car to look closer to the background (and eliminate some perspective lines), you can zoom out as far as you can and zoom in. This will give it a completely different look (example below).
Main lines
Sometimes you can use the lines of the environment to direct the viewer’s attention, which will often make the image more attractive. The lines can be straight or curved, like the example in this photo below.
Screenshots Folder Location in Forza Motorsport
Well. I finished designing my decor, took the car for a drive and took some nice photos in front of the sunset. But where are they being saved?
Forza stores the images on its online server (rather than your storage drive) and displays them on its website. To view your saved photos or download them, go to forza.net/myforza. You will need to sign in with the same Xbox account you are using the game with. The images will remain on that online server for 90 days, so if you found some you liked, don’t forget to download them.
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