Lights! Shadows! Depth of Field! Unlock the beauty...

[Christine Fearne]

 

"Distant Predator"

[Charolotte Caxton]

Pretty pictures, Christine. That wolf in the distance is so cool and I love how the shot is tilted, really dramatic. 

[Charolotte Caxton]

[Randall Ahren]

Must be so relaxing to have a fox resting his head on your leg. Very nice photo.

[Pussycat Catnap]

I should put this one in here since it fits here maybe better than the avatar thread:

That's all the light effects going -except- depth of field-. Incongruent truths light, with a spotlight added to give stronger facial shadows.

 

WHere's the fox from?

 

[Randall Ahren]

What I find most impressive in your photo is the fire. That is the nicest fire I have seen in SL.

[Marianne Little]

I got a new graphic card, and FINALLY something to play with!

Unedited:

And I had to mess around with it a bit. Can't leave a good picture alone. :matte-motes-bored:

Not so bad? Bigger pic on my Flickr, with slurl to the sim - A full mesh sim. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27764102@N02/6937829719/in/pool-1166791@N20/ 

[Charolotte Caxton]

Finally, Marianne. Welcome.  

[Charolotte Caxton]

 

Emeralda, from the Invisible Cities at the LEA15. More info here: http://charolottecaxton.blogspot.com/2012/02/invisible-cities-emeralda.html

[Randall Ahren]

Pretty dress and shadows. I'm not sure about the wings. They're only cosmetic as we don't need them to fly. Also cosmetic in the other world because there we can't fly even with wings attached to our backs.

[Charolotte Caxton]

As a dream fairy, they are more than cosmetic. We all have wings, they just aren't always visible. Everything is cosmetic, really. We don't need bodies in a virtual world. We could all just be balls of light or name tags. Visual cues are part of the experience, slight nudges of the imagination to help share the dream.

[Marianne Little]

True, Charlotte. I am overdoing it now, having fun trying to create a picture with a story.

I call this: "They" said Anna was a witch, just like her great grandmother... 

[Charolotte Caxton]

Wow, Marianne, amazing. 

[Marianne Little]

/me hugs you

I know there are better computers out there, but just now I am happy like a child!  

Now, why did they start to call her a witch?

 

[Randall Ahren]

Beautiful photos Marianne. I like the one without the crows better. Giant crows are frightening, but I understand they are part of the story.

Below is another attempt at lights and shadows. It's at a store called Just Because.

[Charolotte Caxton]

I love it, Randall. That photo is so you and I feel the weight of many stories in it.

[Randall Ahren]

Why thank you.I was dissappointed because they didn't have any books by Charles Bukowksi or Ram Dass on the shelves. By the way, a blank sheet of paper is God's way of showing you how difficult it is to create a world.

[Marianne Little]

Nice library! My books is most paperbacks in RL, they are cheaper and have lesser weight and easy to bring with me.

Ahh, new Nirans viewer. It is so confusing, everything has disappeared and I was feeling that I had to learn all over again. It is totally different from the official viewer and all other TPVs I have tried. /me sighs

So the square bug showed up again, I think it was almost gone in Firestorm. But I tried Nirans because "everybody" say it has so much better graphics. I can always use the clone tool and a bit of smudge and remove the lines, but it is still annoying. The line is only visible next to my head in this small JPEG copy, but when I was looking at the 2000 X 2000 PNG, zooming in, it goes straigh over the body. 

I try to solve the problem by turning on Anisotropic filtering and set Antialiasing to 8x in my graphic card. Then I will try to turn it off in the viewer and see what happens. 

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

The lines are horrid, did you see the tutorial linked in this thread? 

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Art-Music-and-Photography/Photography-question-Lines-when-using-shadows/m-p/1402225#M2514

I am using Exodus and I love it, still get the lines though.

[Marianne Little]

I have noticed that it's a bug that turns itself on and off. It comes back when I forget about it.

I was told to turn on both antialiasing and anisotropic filtering in the viewer, and I think depth of field is really what brings it on. I am not so keen on DOF, it is too blurry and hard to use precise in the viewer. I can use some blur effect in the postprocessing instead, if I should want it.

 

[Randall Ahren]

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Marianne Little wrote:

Nice library! My books is most paperbacks in RL, they are cheaper and have lesser weight and easy to bring with me.

 

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Thanks Marianne. Perhaps you should try a Kindle. You can fit a lot of books on there and also play games. That's a cute photo. I know you don't like the line by your head, but it's a good pose and your hands don't go into your skirt.

 

 

 

[Marianne Little]

My first work with projected lights went well. The biggest difference is that I can cast the light in a direction, instead of lightning up all around me. So I can use a dark spooky windlight setting and highlight details in SL, instead of in PS or Picnik. Here I attached 2 projectors to me and edited one to point to the sculpture. It was not so easy to edit in place, because of all the transparent prims around here. If my fingers slipped and I lost my projectur, it was almost impossible to pick it up again

Unedited, only cropped. 

Bigger pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27764102@N02/6797381314/in/photostream 

 

 

[Kylie Jaxxon]

Spectacular, Marianne :heart:

[Charolotte Caxton]

Thank you for working with projected lights, like I have said before, you inspire.

[Marianne Little]

I am so happy that you visited my Flickr

This picture has a bit of vignetteadded  and a frame. It is more Grimms Fairy Tales than Walt Disney.

“He said, "Dance for me," and he said,
"You are too beautiful for the wind
To pick at, or the sun to burn." He said,
"I'm a poor tattered thing, but not unkind
To the sad dancer and the dancing dead.”
― Sidney Keyes