"[GUIDE] How to get the best out of normal AR Go Snapshot"

#PokemonGO: Hi Travelers, i don't know about you but for me Go Snapshot it's a fantastic addition to this game, as a Photographer i've loved taking pictures of Pokemon since i've got a phone capable of AR (my older phone didn't had a gyroscope) and i love the fact that now i will be able to take pictures of every monster in my bag if i will found a perfect place for a certain mon (i'm still sad for not being able to find a slugma when i was visiting pompei...i know it's a little dark but would have fitted very well).When Go Snapshot first was announced i was very happy and i was hoping in some sort of AR+ even without the possibility of walk around the pokemon to change the angle (i would have loved even a "function" to rotate the pokemon myself). And obviously when it came out i was a little disappointed: we all know that a Pokemon model in the center of the frame that not even jump around it's a bit underwhelming (why i can use my gyroscope in encounter and not in Go Snapshot Niantic?).But that's what we got and as Bear Grylls likes to say "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome". So we need to try our best to get some decent photos of our beloved Pokemon even withoud the ability to turn around them. Let's start.LIGHTINGThis advice it's true even for encouter AR and even for AR+...to get a realistic photo of a Pokemon lighting it's everything: since every pokemon appears to be always well illuminated we should positionate them in an ambient that it's congruent with their lighting...if you put a well illuminated Togetic in a dark angle of your room noone seeing your photo will yell "Oh my god so that's true: Pokemon exist in real life!"...but if you find a well illuminated spot and try to match the shadows on your Togetic you can really fool you grandmother (that probably would call your Togetic Eggthing).N.B. This advice works even with Pokemon that are different from TogeticFIND THE FLOORAR+ ask you to find a flat surface and scan the ambient for you to help you find the floor, then place your Pocket Monster on that floor (LET THE BODY HIT THE...FLOOOOOOR)...since your phone does not support AR+ you need to do his work. The florr should be your point of reference to shot great photos: you cant just put your Charmender against your fridge like a sticker and call the day. Instead try to position your Charmender on the floor next to the fridge (or in the try inside the fridge if you prefer). This brings us to the next point...OBSTACLEWhen you place your Pokemon on the floor make sure to not have obstacle that should be in front of them...since your camera can't understand if an object it's in front or behind a Pokemon model you should do this work too...if there is a table in front of you and you want to palce your Pokemon behind the table make sure that not a single part of the table touch your Pokemon (or even his shadow). Otherwise this would immediatly cause your pokemon to look like a bad Photoshopped model placed on the top of a photo.DIMENSIONOnce again you have to work to do something AR+ do for those lucky trainers with a phone capable of doing it...your pokemon have a "standard" dimension and while could be fun to look at a Mankey as big as the Empire state Building this photo would probably not be so realistic (unless it's that giant tentacruel from the original series). So it's far better to take a photo of your Pokemon in his original size...but "Hey" i hear you say "this is regoular AR i can't decide the size of my Pokemon"...well it's not true because you can decide the size of your Pokemon...simply by tilting your phone up and down. If you follow the rules stated since now by tilting your phone up you would cause your pokemon to "slide" far away and since the height of the model stay the same it will seem bigger (the inverse apply to "tilting down". If you will be able to find the perfect spot when the pokemon looks like it's normal size your photo will be stunning.N.B. if you tilt your too much (for pokemon too small or too big) it would seem still unnatural...to make it natural again just lower your phone while tilting it up (or up your phone while tilting it down for big pokemon).SPECIAL ADVICE FOR FLYING POKEMONFlying Pokemon are very particoular because...well..they fly. This would not be a problem if Niantic didn't decide to give them a big shadow underneath that would look as fake as an email from a nigerian prince willing to give you free money. To make our monsters fly high in the sky without ruining our photo with a black spot on the sky there is just one solution...hide the shadow inside a tree or something darker than the sky (it's not a perfect solution but it's indeed a solution).Well that's everything i have to say about how to get the best out of normal AR in Go snapshot, i hope this post will help you keep some memories of your pokemon and i really hope AR+ it's coming to every device (or at least i hope Niantic would let us use our gyroscope in GO Snapshot).Stay happy and good grinding! via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2NsThx4