Fortnite
Canterbury, May 2018
I’ve grown up with video games since my early teens, when the first home computers were released and a weekend of gaming involved typing in a lengthy program from a computer magazine, spending a day debugging it, and if you were really lucky, playing a blocky Space Invaders clone for a few hours on Sunday evening. Or a few years later, visiting a friend’s house and making cassette tape copies of the latest game that would take twenty minutes of warbling loading time before you could play. Modern video games would have been the stuff of my wildest dreams as a teenager - so with five boys who can now join in alongside me, it is not surprising that gaming together is something we’ve enjoyed over the years.
As a parent, I think the key is making sure there is always a healthy balance between computer time and healthy running around outdoors, and also ensuring the game time is a sociable experience that you do with family and friends, instead of alone. So we’ve quested together through various MMORPGs and accumulated many happy virtual memories alongside our IRL experiences.
The current gaming flavour of the month is Fortnite, a very successful team-based shooter in which you battle with your friends to be the last ones standing from the initial group of one hundred players who air-drop into the fight. In this image, I focused on Dash’s eyes and used the screen of his laptop as a natural frame for the lower part of the photograph.
Fujifilm X-T2 with XF 56mm f/1.2 lens, 1/125 sec, f/1.6, ISO 400, Lightroom, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2, Tonality CK
