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    Where is the super-secret botnet forum at?

    in General Discussion

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    45 seconds sounds about right for the time a cluster of avatars will wait for a scheduled land-tract in  a game called Tiny Empires.  It would be a daily occurrence if that's true.  

    Formerly-abandoned land is useful for TE players to quickly en-masse log in, wait for their prize, and log out again.  If that's what's happening then there's nothing dark-web nefarious going on :) just a bit of a nuisance if it's now your land, but disabling their scripts will make them seek different pastures. Again, *if* that's what they're doing. 

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    A Question about Networked Advertising on Water Parcels

    in Mainland

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    While you wait for an answer, incidentally I have a question for you. Of what value is a prim-or-mesh advert in a land where de-rendering is an option to Residents?   Hasn't group-based blog-based banner-based advertising replaced the need for signs along the road?  My friends spend a lot of money on digital advertising and zero money on signage, so that's why I am interested. 

    Landscape treatment vs. Portrait treatment in photographs

    in Art, Music and Photography

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    5 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    My approach to photography depends on the moment, the mood, the tools at hand... too many things to contemplate. My photography ranges from documentation to story telling.

    Long ago I realized that, in real-time, my perception of the world around me is unlike most people I meet. It's not that I'm somehow different, it's that we're all different. My own personal abilities (I'm a Tetrachromat, have high Flicker Fusion Threshold and perhaps some other visual/aural hypersensitivities) and experiences (I was raised by crazy-curious people) pretty much ensure that the world I experience is not the same as any of you. That makes it hard to be a purist. Want to "enhance" a photo? Go ahead, Ansel Adams the hell out of it. I've yet to wield a camera that sees what I do. Some see less, some see more, yet all of them freeze the moment for further contemplation. I consider enhancements to be no more or less integral to the image than the choice of subject matter or composition. It's all the work of the same mind.

    And I might not see the virtuality of SL in the way many of you do. I have had, for as long as I can remember, the "ability" to de-render objects in RL, to project myself into what I see, and to violate the laws of physics. I might look at a skyscraper and construct a mental image of its occupants floating in air. When I see a bird flying though the trees in my yard, I can instantaneously imagine the first person view. When I see clouds, I can enter them, sometimes feeling the cool mist on my arms. When I see someone in a precarious position, I imagine the worst outcome possible, from which they eventually walk away unscathed.

    I'm drawn to the unexpected. Juxtaposition, incongruence, absurdity... my images reflect that because my world is full of it. SL makes it fairly easy to show you what I "see" in RL.

    That was most intriguing!  I have some new words to study. 

    Enhancements as all work of the same mind -- I share your opinion.

    Landscape treatment vs. Portrait treatment in photographs

    in Art, Music and Photography

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    7 hours ago, Alyona Su said:

    All great points. I call it "snapshotting" because that what Linden Lab calls it. Photo - by definition, involves actual light. Now, we've been calling them SL "photographs" for years, and there's nothing wrong with that. The degree I was going to school for is Communications. Hence, words have definitive meaning for me - so this all may be me annoying everyone else! LOL.

    Now - when words have meaning, then what is the sense of the imagery we are creating with our "Second Life Photography"?

    So here's the word-nerd's description on a definitive level: Since we are screen-capturing a computer image, we must see it on the display, which uses light, so we *could* use the word photo in part on a technicality. Since the image is computer-generated and does not exist, what should we call it then? The answer is simply that it is a computer-generated illustration. Therefore, I believe, the technical definition of what we are creating is "computer-generated illustrative synthetic photograph." Dropping and truncating some of those words could allow us to use the simple term "Photo-Illustration." - This is the legal term of any photograph that has been manipulated in any way; changing the shape of the composition of the scene, usually by adding, removing, or 'warping' elements. We are "adding" 100% of the elements in the scene.

    So on a technical level: Photo-Illustration would is a legally-acceptable term for what we are creating (and surely there is no need for any legal considerations here; this is a moot discussion.)

     :D

    That was most entertaining 🍾

    Landscape treatment vs. Portrait treatment in photographs

    in Art, Music and Photography

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    2 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    ............. It's even more complicated in SL, of course, because nothing that we are photographing has a "real" existence outside of how it is rendered by our computers. It makes no sense to say "this is exactly how something looks" in SL, because there are an enormous number of factors [.....]  It's all virtual anyway

    What a thoughtful comment; I enjoy contemplating it, as I enjoy Alyona's too.  

    There is one thing I feel like picking apart and it is this idea of virtual versus non-virtual (?) realities in snapshot.  Nothing we photograph has a real existence outside of Second Life, you say.  Alyona said above, also, that this is snapshotting and not photographing "by definition", and these two ideas put together call into question the very nature of the reality we're capturing in images.  (I like chiselling away at this idea in general as I inhabit SL, at the risk of derailing everything. It's an ongoing conversation, not an argument. Just thinking out loud.)

    I like to call it "photograph" because it is an image composed of, revealed by, and determined by light.  Whether in the virtual world of Second Life or outside my livingroom window, everything comes down to light, the spectrum of light, visible light, manipulating how light reflects or shadows, manipulating the intensity or distance of the vantage point... it's all about light.  Virtual worlds are made of light; our world is made of light;  I am happy to call these captures of light a photograph or a snapshot either way because, in the way I understand the words, the words fit.

    The computer and the human head are both locked rooms busy interpreting and controlling and to varying degrees processing light.   Reality is virtual anyway so it's all real, or it's all virtual, and I like that.

    I take a lot of existential shortcuts in that kind of rationale, of course.  You can poke holes everywhere.  But I think it's the kind of thinking that takes me back on point, to be able to say there are as many ways to view and capture an edifice surrounded by trees as there are computers attempting to capture it -- as you say,  it's impossible to say "this is exactly how something looks in SL," because of the variety of strengths and limitations of the light-interpreters out there trying to capture it.  

    I wonder how much enjoyment photographers would get out of a monthly challenge such as this:  "Here is an edifice; photograph how you see it; let's see everybody's perspective of this same edifice." 

    Landscape Photographs!

    in Art, Music and Photography

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    8 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    I think that this is such an interesting question.

    I don't think that there is a "right" or a "wrong" answer to it, but my own views, or at least my own practices, are represented by this shot, which has undergone post-processing (cropping, a slight adjustment of brightness/contrast, and a relatively light application of a single PS filter). If I get some time, perhaps I'll try to explain why on your thread.

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    I absolutely agree that there's no right or wrong way to do it.  And that's a great shot!

    I think you have enhanced the scene with a subtle touch rather than change the character of its natural state, with those treatments you describe.  It looks serene and lovely.

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    So, about those trailers...

    in Linden Homes

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    12 minutes ago, Chronometria said:

     

    We loves the trailers and looks forward to them and wants to keep interest in them, both in ourselves and others.

    Personally I think this is a good point; keeping interest alive is part of what blogs can achieve and maybe a weekly update with pictures or fun facts might help do that.  Who doesn't love fresh pictures in the blog-roll 👍

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    The Non Linden Home Picture Thread - Mainland Only

    in Mainland

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    On 8/5/2019 at 7:02 AM, crypticzynergy said:

     

    I subdivided the parcel, mainly so I could have different Windlight settings for different areas. It's sunny on the beach for tanning, it's dawn/sunrise by the yoga mats to start the day off right, the night fog clears up in/around the lil cabin, and it's a beautiful sunset view when in the pool or looking out of the windows of my house.

    A little OCD, I know... Just a teensie bit. 😘

     

    That is a really dark picture; but the house is lit in a very pretty way and I adore the silhouette of the trees in the upper half of the image.  The lower third of the image is missing something absolutely essential to this picture to make it *perfect* and that is moooooooon light draped lazily along the full length of the waterway.  Moonlit ripples beginning at the right side and extending all the way from right to left, fading out at the left side... ahhhhhhhh 🤟   Dark images are good; but the way to make them "legible" is to find some way to insert contrast.  The house has good contrast.  Tree silhouettes, good contrast.  But my eyes beg for moonlight on the water to finish the bottom.

    Stopping necro-posting

    in Forums Feedback

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    10 hours ago, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

    I will necropost if there's a funny, interesting or informative topic that has already had a thread made as opposed to junking up the forums with more new threads about the same thing. Is that wrong? I don't understand why people are opposed to necroposting.

    I'm glad you asked this; it needed asking I think.

    Landscape Photographs!

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Lewis Luminos said:

    Thank you!

    All of them except the one with the swans are raw, unedited screenshots. And all I did with the swans was add a vignette and frame. Everything else is just down to composition and custom windlight effects; I rarely use a windlight "as is" but I tweak it to suit the scene, and I rarely do any post-processing on a landscape other than cropping and re-sizing. The northern lights effect in the second batch isn't a lighting effect, it was actually a mesh sim-surround.

    I started another thread asking about what kind of treatment photographers give their landscapes versus the treatments they give portraits, so I was very interested in your analysis of these shots.  I agree that it feels so unnecessary to further process a landscape shot and we tend to just let those shots be in all their windlit glory ❤️  

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    Ok, so this is ridiculous

    in Linden Homes

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, Beth Macbain said:

    Probably not. I didn't even know new homes were being released and my old LH wasn't my main residence. I had no idea what Bellisseria was about or what it was going to be so chances are that if I hadn't gotten one, I would have forgotten about it and kept living where I was. It was pure dumb luck that I saw the post on FB and decided to grab one just for fun. Had no idea I was going to fall in love with it and let my old main residence go.

    Ok but what do you REALLY think about Socks up there? Because that is adorable.

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    Landscape treatment vs. Portrait treatment in photographs

    in Art, Music and Photography

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    Photographers, do you feel personally artistically compelled to add treatments to your images, or are you satisfied with your ability to position and capture your image with the Second Life camera and graphics? 

    And if you do feel compelled to add treatments to your work, do you find that you treat your landscapes differently from your portraits?  Or do you employ the same processes?

    I find that I never feel like retouching my landscapes, but I always feel creatively itchy if I haven't done something extra to a portrait... even cropping if nothing else.  (But usually much more.)

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