Amber Bailey, Eorzean Photographer!

I accidentally had perfect musical timing while finishing this quest, and my mind was on fire trying to figure out what had just happened!

The Good Dragon

Cirina is the cutest, that’s all there is to it.

Toebeans The Joyous

Meet Toebeans, a new buddy I met in Limsa Lominsa! She wanted some photos and I was happy to oblige. Her outfit and hair color were so dynamic and pretty, I had to share! I especially like how in the one shot, it looks like she’s laughing at the face on her staff. I wonder if it talks, or tells jokes that only she can hear!

Yugiri: The Lady Killer

The Pagemaster

I’m really proud of this one! It looks like a promo image they’d send out for the game, or something. Maybe I should make a tag for images like that. Anyone have suggestions?

Right This Way

Info: During the cutscene where you first visit the trading company whose name I forget and I can’t look up the cutscene name either because my sub is currently inactive! Oops!

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BE MEAN TO LALAFELL!

I LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON!! I WILL STOP PETTING YOU!!!

I’M SORRY!!!!

(YouTube version which is 60fps and looks way better)

Location: Mist (Limsa Lominsa Residential District) X:10.0, Y:11.8

Smooch Patrol: Yugiri in Yanxia!

Info: During the quest A New Ruby Tithe, Yugiri stands near the big shiny gates in Yanxia and they make for a pretty backdrop! Lots of edits on this one, smoothing polygons, removing jaggies, blurring textures and upping brightness/color. No, I don’t have an unhealthy obsession with her, mind your own business!

Location: Yanxia, X:28.0 Y:33.5 Z:0.3

Sometimes we adventurers can slow down to help in small ways too.

Info: Picking rice from a rice field in Namai. I just did /pray and backed the camera up. There are a few NPCs nearby doing the same, all day long. It didn’t feel right letting them do all the work!

Location: Yanxia

Talking to villagers in the Namai aetheryte’s glow.

Info: During a Stormblood story mission, someone suggests you dress like a merchant to draw less attention to yourself while you gather info. The closest thing I had was a bunch of dirty clothes from a Heavensward quest, and I just lied to you, I actually had them from an A Realm Reborn quest. I think it’s a neat look, so I’ve kept it as one of my outfits all this time. The quest doesn’t actually make you play dress up, but why would I pass up the chance?

(Her name is Chigusa! Say hi to her if you’re in town!)

4K Wallpaper of Alisaie beneath a star-filled sky. This cutscene was so nice it got its own unique background music!

4K Version: Here! If this image host goes down and you want the 4K version, please let me know, and you can check this original post for an updated link!

Info: Alisaie is awesome. She’s the coolest character in this game, she’s cute and she seems to be really good friends with the Warrior of Light. I hope her appearing in the Binding Coil quests means she has plot armor and will be okay forever. Shot was taken at 3840x2160, then I smoothed out some sharp edges and toned down some of the rim lighting on her face, eyes and lips. I also added a couple more stars and removed some clutter from the background.

Location: Cutscene during the quest Beneath a Star-filled Sky

Okay, it’s pretty awesome that the new /gpose lets you freeze limit break attacks. This is my friend Little Stevie wasting a limit break early in a trial so we could get the photo after everyone left in annoyance that they didn’t get to do a limit break instead. Worth it! I love this shot. Check out all the pretty out of focus bits of light!

Info: If the last attack action you did was a limit break, you can stand around for 15 minutes doing nothing and when someone goes into /gpose, they’ll see you doing the limit break. Very useful for getting unique, big photos of players!

This Lalafell saw me doing ranger poses, SPRINTED over to me, plopped down a pillow under my dress and started applauding. I could not stop laughing, because removing the Spring Skirt from the bottom revealed the weirdo and her cute little smile.

Info: My outfit: Spring Dress, Coronal Straw Hat - both dyed Dalamud Red. Her outfit: this

Kugane is astonishing at night. And during the day. This city is awesome.

I have a new favorite place to sit around and people watch from.

Info: You can get on top of this thing by jumping from the pointy part of the bridge railing. You can see it on the rightmost side of the image. Do not expect a peaceful sitting area, as once people see you they’re gonna want to try and get up there because it’s really fun to find interesting spots you can jump to in this game!

Making friends in Kugane! Meet Usubeni, a great dancer with even better fashion sense!

Info: Every time I walk past someone in the Thavnairian swimsuit, I have no choice but to change into mine, and dance with them.

I just arrived in Kugane, and while crossing a beautiful red bridge I passed this beautiful Au Ra in a red outfit. She was standing on the railing and looked deep in thought. Probably wondering who the creepy girl shooting photos was.

Info: Shot at sunrise. Not sure quite how you capitalize race names when you’re using them as adjectives!