Do you need a photo studio in Second Life? I’ve come across this question many times. Often the answers boil down to a simple no. Hardly surprising given that any resident who’s ever opened the snapshot feature on their client knows you don’t need a photo studio to take a decent photograph in SL. And if [...]
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Photo Studio vs Rez-a-Prim
Posted in Ananké Media, Tutorials on 10 April 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Photo Lighting in Windlight
Posted in PhotoStage, Tutorials on 5 November 2008 | 5 Comments »
PHOTO LIGHTING IN WINDLIGHT In virtual photography as in real life photography, lighting is everything. To create stunning fashion photos in Second Life, you need to work the lighting. Windlight allows great flexibility for adjusting the environment settings to control the appearance of the world, and the avatars who inhabit it. Caliah Lyon created some great settings which effectively eliminate the [...]
Making Eyes: controlling where your eyes look when photographing self-portraits
Posted in Fashion, PhotoStage, Tutorials on 11 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
If you’ve ever tried to photograph a self-portrait in Second Life, you’ve probably encountered this problem: your avatar’s eyes just won’t look where you want them to look. You’ve found a killer pose, adjusted the lighting, and lined up your shot so that everything’s perfect – everything except the eyes! They’re either rolling into her skull, or dancing around like drunken party girls every time [...]
On-Location Fashion Photography
Posted in Fashion, PhotoStage, Tutorials on 17 July 2008 | 5 Comments »
Second Life offers an abundance of amazing locations for great fashion shoots. Yet optimizing the lighting for an on-location shoot can be challenging, which is one reason why many SL photographers opt for studio shooting. I recently took Ananke Media Systems‘ PhotoLite toolkit to the beach to see how this highly versatile system can enhance the look [...]
