Jackson Redstar

Have a look at some of strawberry signh's tutorials: https://strawberrysingh.com/tutorials/ she is good at covering alot of the basics. Also alot of tutorials on youtube. And if you can rezz you can easily make your own local lites, if all you are needing is lighting. There is nothing wrong with a model wearing lites though and is a good option if rezzing isn't availble

might be a good idea, however, what usually ends up happening is low to mid level photographers use it for endless self promotion and contribute little, if any any, to the dialog.

I use fraps. some use camtasia

There is a person by the name of TeimaLove (search google, she has FB, Twitter, YouTube, Viemo...) that takes our videos from you tube, sometimes mixes them together with other videos she steals, strips the audio track and ads a new audio track, then uploads them as her own content. On YouTube it is a pretty simply process to report this theft, but not so much on Facebook. If you make videos in SL, I would suggest you look at her channels and if you see your work being used by her, either report her and/or demand she remove the video. I have have not only videos but photos ripped by her, as well as other friends. And with Facebook moving to monetize videos in the future, not very cool having a thief trying to make money of our original work. I will post a link to her FB and Youtube, but she has accounts all over the place. FB: https://www.facebook.com/teimalove80/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDmr26zazYeOOm8ze2ObTdw/videos

IMO, technology is the killer. People have phones and tablets now. and add to that SL is a time investment to spend time in here, and money as well. If one hasnt the time, the disposable income or a fairly decent machine, SL doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Even with a great machine all the mesh has become a 2 headed monster. Great looking but welcome to lagville! Me personally doing weddings over the years, as mesh became more and more the standard the lag has gone through the roof. Even without shaders and shadows on, but with all the pretty on, it becomes pretty unusable with 30+ avis in one area. That will have have a impact on users perspective of SL i think. Either have to make it all pretty ugly to be able to move some or make it all pretty and get froze in place. But then again, nothing is perfect. I still like it in anycase!

Thank you Sultry for sending me this track! Check out Sultry performing live in SL she is an awesome singer!

Sultry sent me a track to make a video with. And if you haven't seen Sultry live yet, you should! She is an amazing singer! Enjoy!

very nice

well, IMO, I wouldn't even offer barely edited vs heavily edited pics. if your name is on it, people aren't gonna really know that the client asked for a lite edited cheaper picture. They'll see a 'lower quality' image with your name on it is all Very few, if any, photographers here can make rl wages doing a photo here. Just have to find a happy medium on what people will pay (and for photography it rarely is very much) However, wedding photography is still in demand and people will pay some decent money for that. Pretty much why I stopped ding photos for money. I just do what I feel like doing for the fun of it or the challenge - when I feel like doing it. Now, video, on the other hand, can be somewhat profitable if you want to learn that...

ah, let the avatar sue your avatar! LOL

well, it is photography, and perhaps if you want to improve start looking at it like that. We may not have a physical camera capturing an image to film or disc, but we are capturing a moment in time that needs to be composed properly and exposed properly. If shooting a subject we need to properly pose the subject and compose the shot. We can use either ambient light or add in artificial lites to fill the shot r properly expose it. Most Lessons you read about rl photography or on youtube video applies here as well

Yep, I got banned. No idea why, or what it was that I posted that was ban worthy

there are millions of really good SL photographers. And people, from my past experiences, don't like to pay much for a photo unless the photographer is really good and unique IMO you should gain alot of experience, develop a style, shoot people either free or minimal charge for now until you gain a bit of a following. And if you really want to get into it, look up WrenNoir Cerise (https://www.flickr.com/photos/wrennoir) she runs a multi week photography course that teaches you all the ins and outs of photography in SL, but photoshop is not the focus IMO being a good photographer in SL is the same as RL - it isn't the equipment, post processing or any of that. it is understanding composition, light, posing, etc... I seen some amazing sl photographers who use minimal if any post processing just by getting it right in world

thanks, Wilma

new music video the Emmy winning song "Cirice" by Ghost shot at No Salvation Gothic Church

or, you can just wing it! lol thanks for that long write up. should be of help to some people. BTW, Abramnations sells Machinima animations I have a software based fly cam It was a beta then it seems the guy making it gave up on it. works good for me i will include a link to anyone want to DL and try installing it. Was a bit of a pain for me. need a vjoy driver as well. Windows will go crazy issue all these warning. I remember I had to unistall my anti virus to get it installed, then re install the anti virus. so, buyer beware. Its free anyways. I have it installed and working for a good 5 years now zero issues https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrAjj9b-M0wMEtaa3dNVkN5ZWs

classic rock band The Electric Angles performed a SL live concert to kick off the release of their new album

oh, that is the DOF (Depth of Field) tool built into the viewer. I can't recall is the default viewer uses it, but Firestorm and Blackdragon does. Not always perfect and at least with my flycam have to keep the mouse cursor on the subject while filming.

Thanks. I use FRAPS to capture. Editing is done in Premiere Pro and back then, they still had Speed Grade for coloring. Damn adobe, I liked speed grade much better than their built in color editing. I'm not much of an After Effects person, but i found a tutorial on how to make the watery titles

mine is: https://www.youtube.com/c/jacksonredstar music videos, weddings, product ads/promotional videos and events

I would not say it eats FPS if you are at say 80fps on a sim and set fraps to record at 30 fps it will record at 30 fps. and most movies are 24 fps. I might use 60fps if the sim isnt laggy so i can do good slow mo, but honestly anything over about 15fps i can get smooth footage unless I am moving the cam really fast through a scene. You can set whatever FPS you want and it should capture it fine. Least been my experience with it. And I like having the avi file

Why upgrade from FRAPS? it is light weight, easy to use, and captures avi files. what more could you need?