Strawberry Singh Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Other than photography, my other love in SL is actually exploring and location scouting. I used to use the destination guide and inworld search to find a lot of places, which I sometimes still do because I find that it is the fastest method. However, I also have a few favorite websites that I refer to which I highlighted in my Exploring Second Life blog post a few months back.Do you ever go location scouting? How do you discover new places to explore inworld? What's one of your favorite places that you have recently discovered?My recent favorite actually kind of fell in my lap. I was approached by Virtual Asia, a very interesting community sim. I love the city feel it has, it makes for great pics. This is a quick raw snapshot I took while I was exploring one day. You can read more about Virtual Asia in my blog post. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwalyphi Korpov Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberry Singh Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 For fashion mainly, yes. But I like to use a variety of locations as a backdrop for my shoots. So anything really. I'd love to explore a quality build with rich textures. A place that photographs really well. Any suggestions or favs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagmar Haiku Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Lost Beach is a sim which is worth to be explored. Its a part of the Lost Angels sim chain, which means that it is a roleplay sim. But as its some sims away from the heart of the sims its a calm place as long as the local vampire family does not have events there. Its a bit grungy and there is a great underwater part. At the beach promenade are some stores for example a big magic store and a tattoo studio. If you do not wear a combat meter people will mainly ignore you. And the roleplayers in lost angels are very friendly. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lost%20Beach/211/162/72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miaa Rebane Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I usually visit Joe Balbozar's flickr stream http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe_balbozar/ to find new SIMs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagmar Haiku Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Second Sites is an other resource for locations. Unfortunatly only few people use the chance to submit pictures of sims. That page could be a great community project in my opinion if more people would share their favourite sims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chance Raynier Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I love to explore places in Second Life that I have an interest about in real life. For instance, Egypt, Paris, Spain. Mrs. Raynier and I take a little trip to such sims on a virtual vacation. I also currently am doing a large roleplay story that takes place in Cairo. We explored a few sims that are Middle Eastern and have used the locations as well as building one on our sim. It's a great deal of fun to see places you can't in real life via your virtual world. Just using the SEARCH feature gave us quite a few choices. We are slated for an African tour soon on a sim that provides that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chance Raynier Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I also use but not as much as I could http://www.koinup.com/sims/in-second-life/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whimsy Winx Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Hiya! Looking good up there! :matte-motes-wink-tongue: When I am doing location shots, I like to use a variety of resources to choose from: Flickr : There are tons of groups from Second Life - Landscapes to Xploring Second Life to help me choose the perfect location. More flickr groups are posted on the Travel Blogs section of Blogging Second Life listed below. Second Life - Search - Destination Guide: Great advertised places to explore, and photograph. Second Life - Search: General searching various keywords for things I am looking for can turn up hidden corners of the grid. It can take a bit of teleporting around, and then rezzing, but worth it if you find that perfect place out of 50. Blogs: When am reading blogs, and notice the photos were shot on location I try to take notes of places to explore later if the blogger mentions the location. Notable blogs to find locations inworld are travel blogs featured on Blogging Second Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keli Kyrie Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 A while back I did some bikini pictures for the feeds and in that case I did go location scouting. I also use the Destination Guide and in world search to find locations on which I could do my photo shoots. (After a while people starting sending me great LMs) Two of my favorites where Oahu: secondlife://Oahu/74/227/20 ...and a place called Crater Lake which is where this picture was taken: secondlife://Imago/132/97/32 (Sorry my LMs are not clickable but if you paste them in your viewer they will get you there.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harlow Heslop Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Love that photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harlow Heslop Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Y'all have mentioned most of what I would have mentioned. Koinup.com and SL's destination guide are my two favorite places. I am also really appreciative of bloggers I admire who take the time to mention where they took photos at. Word of mouth is one of the best ways to learn about new places popping up in SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherry Ravinelli Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I like nature myself, Gulf of Lune is beautiful, all the Caladon sims, hope I spelled that correct. Also great and more romantic are ChouChou and World's end garden. For a more contemporary look as backdrop I like to go to art in SL, like art by Bryn Oh or Claudia22Jewel or others, and make it a bit more an abstract backdrop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttacwup Float Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I have been using My Second Life as a great source for places to visit recently. I look at the pictures people post and visit the ones that look nice. Great way to discover places. sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keli Kyrie Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Sometimes it is the outfit that motivates my location search, as in the picture below, and sometimes it is the location that motivates me to find the outfit. For this picture it was This Post on My Second Life that had me searching for the perfect outfit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixie Rayna Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Great topic BERRY!! I am always hunting for great places to shoot and I think of course TORLEY Linden's Flickr Stream is always a great source of the hottest places in SL. But sometimes you can't resist your backyard! I love The Grove by Umberto Giano, the community of sims offer up a perfect backdrop to any shoot! Photo taken at The Grove (piano added for the shoot) Full Styling Details in the February 2012 Edition of AVENUE Magazine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Little Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I can't see that anyone has posted this blog: http://yseblog.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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