Ricky40 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I love taking pictures in SL. Does anyone know if there are any good tutorials or videos on how fto make your pictures look great, I mean how do some of these photographes in sl create such amazing pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylvia Tamalyn Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Art-Music-and-Photography/bd-p/ArtMusicandPhotography Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyll Bergbahn Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Some tutorials here: http://strawberrysingh.com/tutorials/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheriColette Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I needed to know this too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky40 Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Thanks folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheriColette Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 You showed me up Ricky...with your badge making skills So I went and did this today (yippie...I did it) But I will get to the photography lesions next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky40 Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Awsome job CheriColette! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli May Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 A professional (RL) photographer once told me "The secret of good photography is lots of bad photography". This works in two ways: taking lots of pictures is good practice, and the more you take, the better your chances are of getting a good one. The stuff I've picked up along the way... Save to disk. Perhaps obvious, but some people miss it. It lets you snap away for free, giving you plenty of chance to practice. While you're in the snapshot options, set the image size as large as possible, and save as lossless .png Learn the toys. Play around with the advanced graphics settings and environment controls. Shadow, reflections, depth of field, sun position and light quality are all under your control. Remember you can probably use much higher graphics settings for photography than for day-to-day wandering. Composition: Read up on classic compositional laws like the Rule of Thirds. Once you know how to apply them, you'll get a feel for how to break them. Keep verticals parallel with the edge of frame (unless you're going for a trippy effect). If you can't get it right in the camera, you can always work on it in... Post Process: You don't have to apply 20 layers of Lomo to every picture, but being familiar with GIMP or Photoshop is an enormous help. Many pictures can be improved by a little cropping or punching up the contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky40 Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Thanks for the great tips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio09 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Nyll Bergbahn wrote: Some tutorials here: http://strawberrysingh.com/tutorials/ Thanks for the link. And Ricky40 thanks for the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheriColette Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Thanks Ricky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Luminos Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 There is a weekly SL Photography class at Caledon University. It covers everything from the basics to post-processing. I've been a couple of times and I learned a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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