Orwar

There's reason to the madness. Punk began as an anti-consumerism movement that proposed you do your own thing, both in regards to apparel, style and music. The Gothic subculture is one of the many post-punk genres which kept many attributes (though these days there are so many sub-genres of Goth, many of them seemingly entirely removed from Punk). Metal is a development of Rock, and whilst not directly affiliated with the Punk movement, the two styles were developed roughly around the same time (60's-70's), as did Glam (70's). Fashion is fashion, so that people within the different styles borrowed and were inspired by each other is no surprise - and these days some of the many branches springing from the original styles have mingled; Hardcore (Metal-Punk), Industrial/Gothic Metal, Glam Punk (Mock-Rock) ...

"Welcome to my kingdom madness, you're just in time for the show. Welcome to my world of darkness, a place where unreal becomes real. Come drink my blood, wake the demon in me; Come taste the wine of my sins!"

... Yeah, nah. I think the vast majority of people who call themselves 'blogger' in SL don't have a clue about photography. I frequently see blog posts that are shot in low resolution and using the viewer's photo filters. Or just random PS filters slapped on without any manual retouching - neck seams galore in most blogging groups. The reason they tend to get attention is through spam-following everyone they see (most of them have horrendous following to follower ratios), and spam-liking each other's posts for their buddies to return the favor. If creators figure that's the people they want to employ though, meh? I don't have any expectation of any creator throwing free stuff at me. If I see something that I like, and my wallet allows it, I'll buy it.

Låter bra!

Eh? No. We have plenty of charity here, both secular and religious. "Europe" isn't a country, I'm not sure which country you were referring to but things like this can vary vastly from one nation to the next.

If you make it fullbright, no shadows can be cast on the surface of it and makes the entire screen a consistent green.

Try the 'inner only' option.

It's not that 'we' don't know how to make reflections, it's an issue of how things are rendered in SL. Back in the early 2000's, many computer games had reflective mirrors in them. The issue is that SL is rendered from what is in front of your camera view. If you look into a mirror, you're looking into a space which is not rendered. In a game where assets and textures are pre-loaded and cached from area to area (i.e. games with 'cells' separated by loading screens), this works pretty well - in a world where you couldn't possibly cache all assets and textures, and instead render based on what the client is looking at, this becomes a lot more difficult. When I've done it (I can't say 'usually' as I've done like 3 photos using the technique), I've just free-handed it. I don't know how many times I've posted this picture in this thread (I should make a new one!) but this was done using that setup, with a one-way transparent wall and eyeballing the mirrored shot. Theoretically (I think) you could also make two prims to represent the cameras and position them using the grid to match them ... Again, though, I'm script blind: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetCameraParams

If it's a mesh set, you can just build it to duplicate itself below the floor surface in Blender. If it's prims, just select all the prims, create a copy and rotate it and position it. And yes, the effect is flawed - unless you, again, take two shots, one where you actually flip your avatar upside down below the floor, and layer the two shots.

There are a few different methods to do 'mirrored' shots. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a 'working mirror' in Second Life - with the exception of SL water surfaces, that with some specific water WL settings turn into blank mirrors. So the first method is to use actual water as the mirror, by turning your entire scene and subject onto its side, and either rolling the camera (only works in certain viewers, like Black Dragon) to shoot at that angle, or by shooting it on the 'wrong' axis and then turning the picture right way up. The second method, which is my preferred one, is to pose in front of a mirror - but turn the mirror into a green screen (a full-bright, blank prim). You then shoot the picture from two opposing angles in relation to the camera position and mirror surface, and layer the two pictures and mask the green screen. Blue: subject. Green: Mirror. Red: Camera 1 & 2. Note that the wall is transparent on the 'outside'. In this particular shot, though, I'm guessing that Angelina is using a mirror backdrop. Such backdrops are specifically designed to make it look as if you're viewing into a mirror from a first person view, this works for as long as there's only one view of the subject visible.

For Neph, I bounce between The Skinnery, Cureless[+] and Valkyr (VYC). I also have a skin from Pink Fuel that I really do like - but it's not pale enough!

I think it's an interesting history around the acceptance of breasts. In the ancient Roman civilization, breasts were perceived as symbols of nurturing and motherhood (how could they?!) and even ritually shown as a sign of mourning or an appeal for mercy. However, breasts were also regarded as erotic attributes of femininity, and it appears that it was largely frowned upon for 'civilized people' to run around with them exposed willy-nilly (and I'm not sure whether it's a comfort that slaves' breasts were okay to expose, as they weren't as much people as property anyway). Certainly with the early medieval period, as the 'heathen' rituals were abolished in Catholic Europe, and eroticism in all forms were considered outright sinful (and frequently unlawful), a more prudish culture for both men and women arose. In the renaissance period and up to the 19thC, women's breasts saw a period of acceptance though, perhaps more so than ever in Europe (with various cultural exceptions in the pre-Christian societies) - breasts were once more seen as symbols of nurturing and motherhood, drawn directly from the Hellenic culture that the renaissance period in so many ways wanted to emulate. It appears to fall upon the Victorian society (who would've guessed?!) to be blamed for the stern retreat of the female (and male) anatomy into the confines of strict dress code. In the early 20th century, men in both America and Europe began to challenge the Victorian style by appearing topless on beaches - and before it became accepted, many men were fined for their indecent exposure. Women at large in the same time period, as far as I can tell, don't appear to have been quite as keen on fighting for that same right at the time - exposed female breasts were acceptable in certain contexts, noticeably so in cabarets and live performances at club stages (though the entire context itself was not always broadly accepted by the general public). In this day and age, it seems to vary a lot on where you are. Here in Sweden, for example, men and women alike are free to sunbathe topless (whether you're on a beach or in a park); the law states that you may not expose your breasts in an act of provocation or sexual harassment. That said, law and society don't always fully agree with one another, and many Swedish institutions are less aware of Swedish law than American customs; a school may well punish a girl if she were to expose her breasts for any reason, even if she technically has the law on her side if she wants to, say, sunbathe whilst on a break. I do however talk about school dress decorum with Catrie quite frequently, since she gets a lot of news articles about girls who are sent home from school or otherwise punished for exposing their shoulders or wearing too short skirts - when I was in high school, it was very much in popular fashion for girls to dress in a very provocative and often sexualized manner (when I was 16, a girl in my parallel class always wore latex and vinyl clothing); whether it's a matter of liberty or societal corruption where tweens are at all catered with such apparel by society is a whole other topic, though.

Oh, oh, can Neph be the Angel of Death? =3

Lady Death.

I mean, after the whole 'what is art' that's been going down on the forums lately, I'd say that your picture certainly were up to snuff with any and all reasonable standards. But meh, I guess someone with a grudge must have flagged it to feel like they've won something. Maybe you should re-post it with some nice, big maple leafs? 🤔

Wait, what? Were you censored?

Just did a new shot of her - if you'd like to do a shot together sometime, feel free to throw me a PM! (And yes, I stole the corset mentioned earlier in the thread, 'tis pretty!).

That's terrible, and untrue. I followed you on Flickr, and I've seen your shots here, and I think your shots were good. I don't consider myself a photo expert (there's always new things to learn and improve!), but I can objectively say that your photos were far above 'average' in SL Flickerite standards. Words can be hurtful, and it's entirely up to you to decide how you wish to deal with criticism or, as in this case, outright bullsh*t. But I'm sure I speak for more than just myself when I say that your photos are enjoyable and most welcome here, and that they will be missed if you decide against posting. The most important thing is that you have fun and enjoy what you do, whether you wish to share it or not.

Do we? 🤔

Orwar in 2014. Orwar in 2019. Kinda miss the mohawk.

I'm premium on both my accounts, still couldn't get into an event I wanted something from for 48 hours. <.<

I did write a Jira for a queue system to enter full regions, a while back ...

Neph has a sister? 😮 Photo by: @Catrie