That's really cool! I love the depth-of-field changes (the distance is blurry). That always makes the subject of a photo stand out. You've obviously got a nice camera setup, especially to keep things super-sharp at the highest widescreen resolutions!
The camera I'm using is the Canon ERS 10D:
It's a older SLR camera (only 6 megapixel), but it had a better lens for depth-of-field than the Sony camera I used for the Turbo Memoirs gallery section. The raw photo size of the desktop art images were taken at 3072x2048.
Just another small piece of trivia about the desktop art images - all of them have been airbrushed to a certain extent. I don't have "photo perfect" NEC systems in my collection (my PC-FX is probably the cleanest looking console out of them all) but otherwise all of my NEC consoles have scratches or discoloration on them. The PCE image I had to pretty up the most - if you saw it in person it looks yellow, there are black marks all over it, and there is a large 2 inch hole in the right side of the system (that's why you will never see that side in any of my photos).
Wow, you practically used all the American HuCards? Were a lot cut out from the photo? I bet it took a long time to put those back in their cases, that is if you have already done so!
Yeah I put them all back the night I took the photos....and I wasn't looking forward to doing that! Sucks because the week before, I organized all of my US Hu's in alphabetical order...now they are all disorganized!
In the final PCE photo, due to cropping you probably don't see about 5 additional games on the table. Games that did not make it due to being in unopened boxes were: Raiden, Psychosis, Order of the Griffon, Neutopia II, Magical Chase, Impossamole, Ghost Manor, Darkwing Duck, and Bonk 3.
Very nice images indeed. That HuCard tiled floor must have been a real pain in the backside to set up - just one little nudge, and the whole dang thing would be misaligned. Which game(s) were deemed unworthy for use? I would have left out Deep Blue, or at least not given it such a prominent spot.
I had to use a real steady hand while setting up that HuCard background. I'm glad everyone enjoyed the image - sounds like maybe people want more of just the HuCard background eh? Oh, and I wasn't really paying that much attention to which HuCard's were in what place...so Deep Blue just got lucky.
I don't remember any layout pages like that in the catalog - the only part that I recall is the pages that had three or four games per page with a short description.
You are right, it was not the catalog. It was from the flyer that unfolded into a large Godzilla poster.
