Loving The Sunshine

::Style::

GAS | Ladies Top Kensi |

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.