Weekly Photo Challenge: Color – Once In His Life…

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.

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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 😉

Neva River Revisited

I promised myself I would go back to Neva River before it closes to the public. It’s a beautiful place and I spent a couple of hours wandering around and taking photos. Alas, I haven’t created a single image from my wanderings that I really like. I used multiple windlight settings, as well as the region default settings, shot from a variety of locations using different poses, and still…

…meh.

Please don’t let these photos discourage you. Visit. Before it’s too late.

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While this really isn’t a fashion post, I liked the outfit I put together, so I’ll share the credits.

Top: The Sea Hole – New Romance (Mesh) Wrap Blouse – Lavender
Skirt: tulip. Transparent Twilight Maxi Skirt (Cream)
Hair: “”D!va”” Hair “Flora” (Type B)(Garnet)
Skin: [:T:] Helena / powder (red) :: 09
Necklace & Earrings: EarthStones Marquessa – Pink Tourmaline
Belly Ring: EarthStones Love Me Belly Ring – Silver
Nails: je suis…naive v.2 BASIC NAILS
Shoes: [Gos] Mae Platform – Nude

Scattered Collabor88ion – A Close Encounter

As promised yesterday, I am now bringing you the second part of my scattered thought process from my previous post. After accidentally zooming in while resting on my window seat, I snapped a few shots.

These are the result:

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I like the softness of each of these shots. I like to feel feminine, and these seem to portray that. I did a fair bit of processing on each of them, except for the last one, layering effects to achieve the results. I’m using the first one (with my name added) as my current SL profile pic, although I think I like the second one better. Alas, it’s not cropped properly for the profile picture format and I’ll be damned if I can redo the shot in that size to make it look the same!

As I said before…bad photographer for not writing down my steps 😦 Maybe now I’ll learn!

By the way, the phoneography challenge taught me one thing. I started this post last night on my computer, but I was able to finish it on my phone during lunch!