Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Pavel Stransky is an experimenter, mostly with light, but also with depth of field, overlays, and filters. He takes his pictures in an older version of the Black Dragon viewer as he has not made the shift from WindLight to EEP yet.
He described his process for the above picture to me this way: “Created in Black Dragon, where I played with the focus and then tried different options and adjustments in Photoshop until this image was created. I take photos exclusively on BD. I may surprise you, but I don't use EEP. Fortunately, I have a very old version of BD, which does not yet have EEP.”
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If only all accidents were this fortuitous. Pavel tells me this picture happened thanks to a serious case of lag. As you can see, the field of flowers did not rez. When I have lag, I become a cloud. This image is simply wondrous. I thought it was an art installation that he visited.
He finds it hard to describe his style: “I even think it's impossible to write a tutorial because I don't know it either. I try to make creative pictures in different styles. Some images are the work of chance, others of the momentary mood. I combine different techniques that come to mind, but above all I usually try to capture the story.”
“Through the Valley” gives me the creeps in that delicious vicarious way a noir book can. I am pretty sure that’s his silhouette back there in the murky fog but it could be Don Sebastian, the Vampire. This is seriously spooky.
You really should check out Pavel Stranssky’s entire photostream, at least the most recent pictures. He loves to use the light and the dark to obscure elements in his pictures, blown out or in shadows. He also plays with color. He has the coldest picture of Winter. It will make you shiver.
Sometimes his work reminds me of the phrase, “I see through a glass darkly.” Particularly when he looks through a link in a chain, a portion of a window, in shadow or in low light. It’s a recurring theme. I think his work is fascinating and that you will think so, too.
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All images copyright Pavel Stranssky
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Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
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