A Kerbal adventure with a professional photographer - keep checking back!

[combat squirrel]

Hi all !!

By day my profession is a full time photographer and I thought id do a huge kerbin adventure in my own style and concentrate on getting awesome pics as if I was there

The Plan:

Send my crew to Duna with 3 craft, lander, kethane extractor, kethane refinery, and mothership taking it all, the ships are designed around craft by the awesome craft offered by Temstar and Wayfare.

The setup:

Here the main load structural section is launched:

Drive section launching:

Here is the main ship 'DESTINY' , the mid 3 sections are the interstellar section, at the back is the launcher stage for the drive section, I decided to use this to boost the entire ship out of Kerbin orbit due to the phat mainsails; at the front is the lander launcher, now transferring fuel to the mainsail section (the rest are fully fuelled):

She's ready:

Jeb uses KAS to tie her together :

Watching the sun blocked out by a part of the ship

Continued next time for the journey to Duna.............

[sal_vager]

Good stuff Combat Squirrel, looking forwards to the next instalment

[combat squirrel]

And so our adventure continues!

Our ship all ready sets its heading to duna

FIRE THE ENGINES !

All is going well on our interplanetary journey

Things are looking good from inside the can, nice little view from the ship window and the guys chilling on their journey

We arrive at Duna...........

AIR BRAKEEEE! a fine calculation with a ship of this size.

Orbit was made and they touch down their base parts and begin to fuel for Kethane:

THE APOLLO ERA IS OVER for our kerbals! , Duna has been hit, the photos are so so, now we re-organise our time and efforts in to true space research............soon ill add life support mods and begin the shuttle/ISS era in KSP and pay a whole lot more attention to getting some ace shots!!

Check back soon for more!

[jacobgong]

Hi all !!

By day my profession is a full time photographer and I thought id do a huge kerbin adventure in my own style and concentrate on getting awesome pics as if I was there

[Soda Popinski]

Cool thread. You got me thinking. A lot of my screenies (see my Missions in my sig) could use some fill flash. I usually just fake it in Photoshop.

It might be interesting to send out a lighting crew with the next craft. Just some probes with the various lights attached. Station keeping would be a pain, but I suppose one could install Mechjeb for that. There's not a large variety of lights, though. I don't know if you can make a reflector to soften up the light. It might be nice to use one of the spots for rim lighting.

Anyways, I might have to play around with this.