Can anyone recommend a Photography tutorial/hints and tips?

[Monique Bellambi]

I'm addicted to shopping and stuff and I'd like to take some pictures for my blog. So far, I've just been zooming in and print screening. I'll save it to my computer, then hop onto PSP to add words or something. The camara thing in the viewer can never get the size I want so I don't usually use it.

There's a bunch of photographer's that I've found, but I'm looking to do this on my own since I usually just explore around and take pictures of cool sims, avatars and sims that I see. I've seen tons of great flickr streams, so I'd love to have a few tips to use so that I can take better pictures.

Thanks!

[valerie Inshan]

See this tutorial by Torley:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Taking_snapshots

[Irene Muni]

Great Valerie's answer. Some simple tips in the KB: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Taking-screenshots/ta-p/700153

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Monique Bellambi wrote:

...I usually just explore around and take pictures of cool sims, avatars and sims that I see...

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BTW, don't forget the Machimina and Snapshots Policy: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Snapshot_and_machinima_policy

[Nyll Bergbahn]

Also, have a look at these tutorials on Lighting-Shadows and Depth of Field.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Lighting-and-shadows/ta-p/997819

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Depth_of_field

I suggest you peruse the Art, Music and Photography forum too as I'm sure there are more tips and ideas there.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Art-Music-and-Photography/bd-p/ArtMusicandPhotography

 

[Antreas Alter]

I m gonna tell you what a teacher said once to me, when i was studying photography

He said, sure you should read lots of tutorials and books and all that, BUT, the best way to get to know, understand and use photography as art, is ...study the works of others. Especially others that are considered good in their field. Studying thousands of to pclass works, will also give you ideas, meaning you have to take a moment when you see something impressive and ask yourself, exactly WHAT makes this one impressive? In time, you ll get to recognize easily the elements in a frame that make it "good" ie eye-catching, and you ll get to easily look fir such elements to use in a snapshot of yours.

May be the position of camera, the use of a dominant color, the use of depth, main objects close to the camera lens while others far behind, may be the prespective, the contrast of opposites, the use of wide lens or tele, and many more

Dont just "look"  but ...study the works of others

Best learning process imho

[Lyra Blackthorne]

Besides info on taking photos you will want to learn about Photoshop or Gimp which is free. Much of what you see in SL photography is done after the photo is taken