Light in SL

[Talligurl]

In RL if I go into a windowless room or a cave and there are no lights on, it will be so dark I can't see my hand in front of my face. Is such darkness possible in SL, even at the midnight setting there is some light, can even that be turned off. I obviously don't want to take black pictures, but I do have some ideas for pictures illuminated only by light sources with in scene. An example would be me holding a lantern in a cave, where the only light comes from the lantern. Is this possible in SL, if so how?

[Rolig Loon]

SL's ambient light is always with us. 

[Talligurl]

Dwhich means we can't have total control over our images

 

[Rolig Loon]

Right.

[Bitsy Buccaneer]

You might be able to fake it by using layers and/or masking and darkening parts of the image or playing with the opacity settings for some of the layers. Good luck.

[Tamara Artis]

Windlight (SS) Atmos 00:00 2 makes the whole room dark. There are few more, I just took first one from the list

In front of my avi is a candle with the light turned on, Intensity: 0.612, Radius: 1.800, Faloff: 1.500.  

Is this what you had in mind? 

 

 

 

Edit: typos and just to say that the candle had no texture in the light tab, you can upload any type of texture and it will modify the light in a way that it offers you even more control over it.

Feel free to post real life image as an example of want you'd like to recreate in-world and I bet we can think of something! 

Edited April 23, 2017 by Tamara Artis

[Talligurl]

Yes that is exactly what I need thanks

[Bree Giffen]

The standard windlight presets might not work but you can just make a new windlight preset and turn off all sun/moon and ambient lights. I use it to test my flashlights. It looks like Tamara found a few presets that are out there.

[Chic Aeon]

Just a thought. If you are looking to make some chiaroscuro photos a facelight set to dim  OR a globe with some low lighting will likely be necessary. The whole point of that style (which I love) is "light and dark". All dark doesn't really do it :D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

[Talligurl]

I want to do a picture based om this

[CheriColette]

I look forward to seeing you do that Tali

@Tamara Artis Thats a wonderful shot,  love how you got her skin glistening in the candle light.  

[Talligurl]

Yes, it is very ambitious to say the least, but that is how we grow, by stretching our limits.

[Talligurl]

My latest experimental shot in learning about light, I had the neon from another picture I did recently for a painting.

[CheriColette]

That works Tali

 

[Talligurl]

So I had a little bit of time to get on today and I was going to do some more experimenting, as well as try to get some pictures for this art show opening up next week for sensual adult images, but then my SL husband who I hadn't seen in a week was on so I got distracted from the picture taking for a bit,but I did get a few after he left. this is one I did that is forum acceptable. Oh and yes i did get several images that I can use in that show, not all of them in the dark.

[Tamara Artis]

This thread makes me want to try something like images you shown, they are all great!

And is it allowed to post slurl here? I would love to see that sensual art show.

[Talligurl]

I am assuming there will be an announcement of the opening when it actually opens which i think is May 3rd, if there isn't I will make one.

[Talligurl]

Ok so today I took this while setting up for the Spring Sensuality show, behind me is my latest experiment with light and shadow. Probably my hottest image on SL yet.

[Madelaine McMasters]

This is me, midday...

[CheriColette]

On 02/05/2017 at 5:55 AM, Talligurl said:

Ok so today I took this while setting up for the Spring Sensuality show, behind me is my latest experiment with light and shadow. 

 

Will you announce your show here Tali?

[Talligurl]

The show opens this Friday and runs 3 days. I will post the location tomorrow or Friday so you all can check it out.

[Annika Velde]

[TOR] Night - Nocturne <---- this is my fave too. You could give that one a go as well!

[Talligurl]

On 5/3/2017 at 5:56 PM, Talligurl said:

The show opens this Friday and runs 3 days. I will post the location tomorrow or Friday so you all can check it out.

So they just posted the official announcement here in the forum, so be sure to check it out.

[Coby Foden]

There is "Ambient Dark" Windlight. If there are no light sources nearby the scene is completely pitch black, you cannot see anything.