Photography

I love it. I almost always have one or more sims in my households who have mastered the skill. But I give all my sims cameras anyway. Love to take pictures of their families, decorate their houses with memories and other beautiful shots.

I do like photography, but it is sadly lacking.

As already mentioned, it would be great if we could take mixed ages and larger group photos with the studio. And also hire a photographer so we could have the whole family in the shoot. It would also be great to have better backgrounds on it.

And I would love a collection aspect to the photo skill, like in sims 3. Take a photo of such and such etc. I loved doing those, they gave something to aim for.

Another update we could do with is a variety of picture frame styles and colours. Its lovely to hang portraits and scenic pics but I do wish we could match the frames to our decor.

I find I don't use it a lot. Maybe it'll get better with the Fashion Photographer career we're told is coming in the Moschino Stuff Pack.

I LOVE photography. It's fun to take shots of places and objects, and it's nice to have a record of family members through family photos. Also, no matter how many cc pictures I download, it seems like there's never enough to decorate the different houses, so it's great to have so many of my own pictures to choose from. I make an art retail store and resell copies of them there so that anyone in the neighborhood can buy one and hang it in their house.

I'm currently playing a Victorian save, so I gear the photos toward what Victorians would have pictures of, like landscapes and still life. I was going to have a painter paint them, but then I realized what crap the painting quality is, so I have him take photos and then pretend like they're paintings in game, or like they're sketches if I use the sepia or black-and-white filters.

Here are some examples I took at various locations (The Bluffs, Windenburg, and a cathedral I built with some cc):

Hallway:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/adcf5880ad203f418ee48d0255f8907b/e062205ad5e17265-4e/s540x810/cfeddc70bfc9c964537fdb7cf90f8343a07e8c7a.png

https://66.media.tumblr.com/fb0aa407d4ac693e19b7d4b3a9aea692/e062205ad5e17265-56/s540x810/ce97fe78f29f3a605c998af8027bda87628cb571.png

Landing:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/fc6c70137aff343c47cb3c76657e01ec/e062205ad5e17265-64/s540x810/a3dc192170ff1ea6b57c7d5085f36c2c28d5e4f3.png

https://66.media.tumblr.com/96fc5cb6a09aea359bcaa8a1033ad516/e062205ad5e17265-74/s540x810/0c1c673c3b10df345da0910f13eab28594431b3f.png

Bedroom:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/6056e4fdec701644f2597e840bdc2c19/e062205ad5e17265-fe/s540x810/d1719c4f53120e8c22f7da36784370d2ee514a70.png

https://66.media.tumblr.com/daa4dbe16d4681194bea1b7ec4fb80d7/e062205ad5e17265-fc/s540x810/d3b33689f7f0200a8ebd135b6a6d190359845e93.png

Bathroom:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/dfa3fe25e3a9de540906c7ad7de7c880/e062205ad5e17265-0b/s540x810/989ba09a1b75e2505ed0fb550b1b8979de8ba40d.png

https://66.media.tumblr.com/9bcfcac441987abee2430a8dabedd32f/e062205ad5e17265-d0/s540x810/72df58fc76c2e9c0c0b0d1300bed9a00d9912408.png

Vicar's Cottage:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/196a46f08e809307470322b4ab14f7cf/e062205ad5e17265-c8/s540x810/e68b95066dacaa4dcb9a5903e317e45c86128d9b.png

https://66.media.tumblr.com/ac3831c2274f1c73cc2a7da80059eda4/e062205ad5e17265-93/s540x810/2cbce75514d733ed4d7df088ea13f316b378540e.png

And here's a family photo. I was experimenting with having the same background as where the photo is hung, but I don't like it matching the wallpaper and won't do that again. Ignore the look on the girl's face...she was actually in a good mood; she was just being a teenager, LOL.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/9d49f362e38183a9d2144a60316a98c4/e062205ad5e17265-f0/s540x810/dce276ac0757fc4fb9dceb48726faccafd2a8787.png

Love photography. My sims' houses tend to always end up looking like photo studios with all the photos posted on the walls. Gets even more crammed when they get a better camera that can take larger prints.

"Sindocat;c-17151748" wrote:
My main problem with Photography is how it spams my Screenshot folder, making it hard to sort through to find the actual screen caps I take to document my play.

Combined with the sheer number of photos needed to level the skill, it is a serious hassle.

I do like to save a lot of the photos for my own viewing, but I can see when you take a lot of screen caps it can be a pain. Maybe a subfolder for photos would do, and have nothing but screen caps in the screenshots main folder.

"Sindocat;c-17151748" wrote:
My main problem with Photography is how it spams my Screenshot folder

Yes I agree, and it’s a bit silly that ea set it up so that a copy goes into screenshots. I usually have my sim go on walks and take a bunch at a time, so it’s pretty easy to just go into screenshots once I close my game and do a quick shift-click select and delete. As long as you’re on top of it, it’s not a big deal, but I can see how some people wouldn’t want to bother with it. I also will save an occasional photography screenshot of scenery if it comes out particularly nice.

I just got Moschino stuff and all my photos have frames and I can't remove them or put the photos in new frames! I deleted the mod that gave us the frames from Strangerville and it just started happening after I got the new SP.