Kristal Tricks & Pixel Hair

Vista | Zoe bento head |

GAS | Ladies Shorts Kensi |

[. CULT .] | EMMA TIP TOE PACK Sneakers

::Body::

 LeLUTKA | Bianca Head | 

MINA Hair | Romy blondes pack | 

Maitreya | Mesh Body - Lara |

::Story::

Another one from the archives, Flickr says I uploaded it in September 2018. I realise that's it's a pretty innocuous snap, but for me it was a landmark. Firstly, I had started to use GIMP for image processing. Here you can see that I've done a very rough layer mask on the background to blur it and give a 'depth of field' effect. Crude, but I'm still doing the same thing now, although I employ gradients on the mask to get a more realistic 'near to far' blurring. 

I've also started to use the environment sliders to give a nice bright, neutral light effect. I love the 'bleached' look it gives me, so much that I probably overused it for the next couple of years (check the next few blog posts for evidence of this). I'm trying to be more aware of composition now, but I do miss the simplicity of some of these earlier images.

Despite the problems with this picture (don't look too closely at my eyes) I really like the 'feel' of it. After this, I started to actively pursue SL photography as a hobby using the tools that both SL and GIMP offer, and it remains one of the three big hooks that keep me coming back to Second Life after all these years. Maybe I'll write more about the other two hooks in future posts.

::Style::

::Body::

 VISTA | Zoe Bento Head |

*YS&YS* - YourSkin & YourShape | Miki Tone 00 Skin | 

Maitreya | Mesh Body - Lara

*store sadly defunct 

::Location::

::Style::

::Cameo 6ixx:: | Vinyl dress |

::Body::

Maitreya | Mesh Body - Lara

Navy+Copper | Pancake Hair |

LeLUTKA | Bianca Head |

::Story::

This is quite an old photo, from 2018, taken at Cocoon, which is a beautiful dystopian sci-fi themed region in Second Life. I love this look, and still wear it now. The dress was an event special. I didn't find it on the Cameo 6ixx marketplace store, but they have similar ones. I can't find the tattoo in my inventory anymore, sadly - I think I threw it out with a bunch of other stuff before I properly understood BOM and Mesh! The skin is just the Lelutka and Maitreya default, which match because they both used to provide a set of Glam Affair skins as a base. Ah, those were the days!

GAS | Ladies Top Kensi |

*COCO* | Side Stripe Wide Leg Pants Black |