Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Arlys Erin takes marvelous raw landscape shots. As she wrote in her About introduction, she’s been in Second Life for a long time but only recently took up photography:
I've been in SL since 2008, but only recently started exploring advanced camera tools. I use Firestorm and Black Dragon viewers. I push my average equipment as far as I can. I try to pay attention to composition, lighting, etc., but they rarely all line up the way I want. :) Still lots to learn about graphic settings. So far, I'm only doing minimal or no photo editing to the raw image. No Photoshop or similar post processing.
As you can see, without post processing, her photos are alive with energy, color, and full of life. She also provides SLURLS so you can go too. [Ethereal City Noir: Click here to teleport.]
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“Bridge to the Other World” illustrates one of the composition skills she employs a lot, using leading lines to draw you into the picture. See how the rocks on the beach and the white drifts of snow form two lines and because she shoots them at an angle rather than straight on, she puts them at a diagonal which suggests movement. They curve and your imagination fills in that bay that is out of sight before it curves back toward the shore in the distance. [Luanes World - Winter: Click to teleport]
The lines curve gently and invite you to follow them to the other side. It’s an emotional effect that is mild and often unnoticed except, perhaps, in the subconscious, but a curving line is a relaxing line, an invitation to join the flow.
“Goshuin stamps project, New Year 2024” is a very different line. It’s straight which conveys a sense of power. The impulse to follow comes more from a demand than an invitation, no matter how merrily decorated. Resistance is futile. Interestingly, she uses the Rule of Fifths rather than the Rule of Thirds, a way of adding complexity as it often creates a foreground, midway, and background, giving us a feeling of depth. [Hamamura Islands - Click to teleport]
Arlys Erin is an extraordinary landscape photographer and a lot of people in Second Life have special admiration for those who present their photos raw and unedited, finding their composition in-world rather than in a software program.
I admire both for different reasons. I love folks who manipulate their pictures until you can hardly see SL and folks who do raw shots, unfiltered by perfectionist touch-ups and changes in lighting and so on. They are all worthy, One thing I know for sure. Arlys Erin is worthy of more than 25 followers, so go check out her photos and give her a follow.
Thanks, Whiskey, for the recommendation..
All images copyright Arlys Erin
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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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