Stunning Second Life Avatar Portraits Shot With In-World Projector Lighting

An SLer named Winter Hendes recently posted some Second Life photos to his Facebook feed which made my jaw drop, because look:

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The amazing thing is, these are raw shots without post-processing. Instead, he's using a light projector within Second Life, which uses filters he created in Photoshop:

"[T]hink of the projector like you would a Photoshop brush," Winter explains. "So you can make the 'brush' any shape or anything you want (not just a spotlight, but maybe like drawn lines or other marks). It can be tweaked and duplicated to regulate tone/color/intensity etc. So you can almost use the projections in a kind of painterly way."

He got this idea from a tutorial on using projectors in Second Life, which you can watch below:

"The idea I'm playing with," says Winter, "is to expand on this and kind of think of the projector like you would a Photoshop brush."

Here's another from Winter, with decided film noir-ish lighting:

Many more on Winter's Facebook page. I really love this technique and would love to see much more done with it by other SL photographers (he blatantly hinted).

Photos re-posted with Winter's permission.

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Comments

[What?]

People have been doing this in SL for years. Winter is a very talented photographer, so absolutely nothing against them, but this is a basic functionality of the lighting system and has even been included in LumiPro for years now.

[bodz]

Forget the lighting, how did he do the hair and what hair is this?