Creepy, those shots are truly first rate. Not to pry the magic trick from the magician but is there a tutorial site that can help this mortal conjure up some of that magic?
thanks for the comment... As far as the shots go alot of it is addons like clouds, terrain and quality of ac used in the shot... Theres also an option if you have an Nvidia card that alows you to tune the digital vibrance. I have mine around 80% which seems to help out in alot of games where the color seems washed out and too dark.. Also theres a little mod that adds alittle to day time shots and the game itself... called Shader Model 3 MOD for Flight Simulator X (Final Version) by Bojote... Should be easy to find if you search the sites.. Another mod which works pretty much like the shader model 3 is called:
ENBseries Add On for FSX ..
This is a dynamical adaptive lighting effect for FSX.
This addon turns on post process engine on your videocard for calculate effects in realtime.
The main reason for this project is to simulate global illumination (occlusion, indirect lightning as parts of it) for more realistic looks of objects in games. Many games from next-gen consoles already use these effects, on personal computers one of the most famous game Crysis from Crytek also use ambient occlusion. How to see this algorithm in action? Look for nearest objects to each other, shadowing and color transfering appears between them.
Thats about it besides the fact that you need to take alot of shots and just see what you like and dont like... Mix the weather and time day around including dusk and dawn and see what goes with the shot sometimes one ac will look bad in a shot, but if you try another you find that one ac look good while another looks bad... Could be a personal taste but Ive taken alot of shots and sometimes the ones I like seem to have little effect on people and then another one I hate ends up blowing everyone else away... Like these below... I dont care for these shots, but people seem to like them...
All these shots are pretty much unedited... I have the ENB mod in but thats it... The clouds are from FLEX 2.0 other than that its the Alpasim B1B ported over in FSX... No photoshop or other magic...
Goodluck...
Creeps..