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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color – Once In His Life…

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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead – Lucille Ball

I love Lucille Ball and I love this quote. In real life, I’m a brunette, but as the saying goes, “The sun on a brunette’s hair looks red. The sun on a redhead’s hair looks like Heaven on Earth.” I’ve always loved the red glints the sun gives my hair. And I’m a bit fiery, like redheads are purported to be. So in Second Life, I’m a redhead…most of the time 😉

This week’s photo challenge is color. The instructions are:

IN A NEW POST CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PICTURE IN WHICH COLOR TAKES CENTER STAGE.
You can post a single photograph featuring your favorite color or many colors, or take one of your images and experiment with color effects in a photo app or online photo editor (which we introduced in some of last month’s posts). For those of you up for a multi-photo challenge, play around with this theme in a gallery. A few ideas:

A gallery of contrasting colors
A gallery of objects focused on one color
A macro photography collection of flowers
A set of bold street art from your travels

I chose to highlight my red hair. I took these photographs at a sim called Vintage Vinyl Records & Cafe, another beautiful location I found through the Second Life Destination Guide. This was the first time I had ventured away from the studio with my LUMIPro Hud. I loved being able to adjust my lighting and eye position on the fly – although I’m sure I got some funny looks from the other people exploring the sim when I rezzed my three lighting balls 😀 But I didn’t really care…I was just thrilled by the possibilities it gave me.

Each of these photos was processed using the technique called Lomo. It truly makes my red hair my shining glory.

Please be sure to click the link to see the other entries for the Weekly Photo Challenge. Links can be found in the comments section.

Now I’m off to find some sunshine to create a bit of heaven on earth 😉

But First With Myself

Image April 5, 2013PeepSideshow Darkward1 Comment

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers

Diamonds Are Nice And So Are Pearls…

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Diamonds are nice and so are pearls, but theres nothing like us pretty girls.

This is a quote from an unknown author, but it describes Pearl Grey completely.

Pearl saw my blog and contacted me about a week ago about doing a photo shoot for her. She is a photographer’s dream, from start to finish. She knew exactly what she wanted in terms of what package she wanted, the photo sizes, the type of background and what she would be wearing for each photo set. She even sent me a link to her Flickr page so I could see the outfits in advance!

But it wasn’t just Pearl’s organisation that impressed me. From the moment I first saw her avatar, I was in love with the possibilities. Every pose I used, camera angle, lighting choice, worked. I just kept shooting and shooting, and honestly, I could have processed at least 80% of them – an unprecedented strike rate for me. And I may go back later to do some more when I’m in the mood to experiment. This is the first time I’ve ever done a photo shoot and been happy with every single picture I processed. I’m marking this on my calendar!

I do have to give some credit to the new photography tool I purchased – the LUMIPro Hud. Yeah, it’s expensive, but oh, so worth it! For the first time, I was able to control additional lighting, posing, positioning and eye movement with a few clicks on the HUD. It saved me having to switch out pose stands, wait for her eyes to be in the right position before snapping a shot and allowed me to utilise Windlight settings I hadn’t been able to use before by adjusting the lighting. If you’re serious about portrait photography in Second Life, I cannot recommend this product more highly!

But enough about my new toy…this blog is supposed to be all about Pearl!

Pearl does role play in Second Life and she wanted her Picks photos to reflect these characters. This is a shot of her cyber-grunge character:

For her Victorian role play, Pearl requested an antique photo in sepia or black & white.

And for her profile picture, she wanted a photo of “now”.

While these are the photos that Pearl chose for her profile, I wanted to share some of the other shots. Instead of making this a mile-long blog post, I’m just going to include a collage of some of my (other) favourites of Pearl.