User:Diotoir the son of nemesis/ Official photos

I remember these images on the original website and I have a thing for these. Here are the S1, S2,S3, S4, S5, S6,S7 and both series of Extreme "Official photos" as well as the House robots (Does not include pictures from the ultimate guide or from team websites)

Series 1/2
For Series 1 and 2 the photographers had taken photos of the robots from different angles, sort of like a mug shot. The side images are considerably the better ones as they show the full body and weaponry of the robot. The images were taken in the "dark room" with the black table for the robots to stand on and for the photographer to take photos of, this allows the robots to stand out from the darkness, problem being that some robots were painted black and the would be hard to see. Quite a few of the official images were in fact taken by the teams themselves and were from their websites.

Series 3
Just like Series 2 and 1, Series 3 uses the black room once again but this time the lighting is intensified and the quality of the images made higher. From what can be seen on the Big Brother image it seems that some robots were taken in the "white room" (white background and sometimes white floors) The photographers only took photos of the robots from a side angle rather the front and back as well.

Series 4
Series 4 photos were taken in four different settings; White room, Black room, "The garage" and even in the pits themselves (only for a few such as Destruct-A-Bubble mind you) Unlike Series 3 the images were taken at different angles rather than just one, some robots facing the camera while most faced sideways. The angles were taken at the robot's best side.

Series 5
Source:http://web.archive.org/web/20031228084426/http://www.robotmayhem.com/vip/seriesv.php All the images were taken at "the garage" These images in particular were taken directly in front of the robots meaning side angles were irrelevant in this case, except for a few such as Razer. These photos were later photoshopped to have their backgrounds removed and replaced with black, green or red blank backgrounds. These images were uploaded to the original Series 5 website.

Series 6
Straight away almost all the images were yellow washed. The images were in fact taken in the garage setting but the lighting was more cream/yellow which washed all the series 6 images yellow, this was a problem which later resulted in the competitor photos being taken in ether the blue or white rooms with improved lighting. The photos have reverted back to side angles instead of the front angles.

Extreme 2/Series 7
Due to the yellow washed series 6 photos, the photographers were brought in to take photos of the robots in the white room and the new "blue room" The photos went back to the series 4 standards where they were all taken from different angles, the best looking angles. Sadly the series 7 images could only be seen from the TV show or from magazines such as the Robot Wars club.