Photo Sessions. Meet in world the artist Sebcaen Ulysses

Koinup and Orange Island are glad to invite you on this Thursday 3rd of September at 11am SLT at the Orange Island Photo Gallery to enjoy a meeting with the artist Sebcaen Ulysses.

Sebcaen is a master in Second Life photography and his gallery is one of the most appreciated in Koinup and Flickr. You can join all his photos, here



Particolarly, Sebcaen is known for his exceptional landscapes and naturalistic views....Orange Island guys made an interview to introduce readers to some of the works of the artist and give him the chance to share with you tips and tricks to make photos in Second Life.

READ ALL THE STORY ON THE ORANGE ISLAND BLOG

Enjoy the Sebcaen Ulysses gallery, here

Photo Session: the worlds of Cienega Soon

Want know how to make great pictures in Second Life? Join us Thursday 27th at 11.00am SLT at the Orange Island Gallery for a session dedicated to Cienega Soon.



It will be the second time she stands on the Photo Sessions stage. This will be a good occasion to understand why this American artist has been famous for so long. We will talk about the story behind the pieces Orange Island guys selected for the exhibition, and specifically about the way she did her best pieces. Then, you’ll be able to ask all your questions about SL photography.
Read the Interview to Cienega Soon on the Orange Island Blog

(image above: Twin Paths, by Cienega Soon)

H2O Contest Exhibition. Announcement

The H2O photo contest in well under way. The exhibition, both at the Museum of SL Photography and Orange Island Photo Gallery, will be officially opened Sunday 26th July at 1pm at the MoSLP. Read all the announcement on the Orange Island Blog

The H2O Contest has been one of the most exciting and succesfull contests ever made in Koinup. Thanks to the participants that uploaded dozens of fantastic entries and thanks to Orange Island that built and manage such interesting project. Browse the submissions, here



Image by spyvspyaeon

H2O Contest Exhibition. Announcement

The guys at Orange Island just announced that "the exhibition, both at the Museum of SL Photography and Orange Island Photo Gallery, will be officially opened Sunday 26th July at 1pm at the MoSLP"
Read More on the Orange Island Blog.

The participants of the H2O Contest uploaded more than the 150 works and the panel of judges had really an hard time picking the winners. The H2O contest has been one of the most engaging, funny and interesting on Koinup since many months and many of the entries are definitely pieces of virtual art.

Read at the Orange Island blog the complete announcement of the exhibition with the winning works and honorary mentions of the contest

Image above "Lost Nature" by spyvspyaeon

Photo Session. Review of your works

This week, Zephyru Zapedzki will offer you a mentor review. Join us today, Thursday 16th of July at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery and get your work appraised by a color specialist.

Zeph is a painter in RL and deeply passionated about colors theory. This is the final session about our intense colours class. You are pleased to come and ask him to give a friendly review of your use of colours in your work.

In order to practise what we learnt, last Thursday, Zeph asked us to prepare some works related to the main aspects of using colors:

* Color combinations : you can use Color Scheme to play with the color combinations. Look at these posts if you need a refresher: first session transcript and second transcript
* World environment editor: for that, you’d be better put your graphic preferences to High. Please look at the transcript.
* Prim lights: please look at the transcript.
* Post-processing with Paint.net.

Photo Sessions members are asked to send their work inworld to Natty Foggarty or Zephyry Zapedzki in copy mode. A selection will then be exhibited on the Orange Island Photo Gallery.



Read More in the Orange Island Blog

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Photo Sessions are events dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to offer classes for SL Photographers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.com.

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Photo Session : all about colors, part four

Join us this coming Thursday 9th of July at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for the fourth part of the class based on RL Photography Theory ‘Colors in Second Life’ by Zephyru Zapedzki.

Last session was focused on the environment editor and the Lights in SL. We learned the many ways to affect colors in-world.



This week, Zeph will briefly introduce the basics of post-processing colors. This will also be the occasion to ask him everything that comes in your mind about colors.

Then, he will ask you to practise the technique we’ve studied during last classes by making pieces respecting three guidelines (color combinations, windlight endless combinations, prim light studio). Please send it to me or Zeph inworld with your name on it. The pictures will be then exhibited on the Orange Island Photo Gallery.

Next week, Zeph will review your work, a good occasion to discuss about each other works.

You can read more about our color teacher on the first blogpost.

Join the PHOTO SESSIONS group on Koinup, to stay in loop with all the Orange Island Photo Events!

Rocking the Metaverse 2.0. The Recharge. Next tuesday at the Orange Island

Just a few days after the announcement of the recharge, Rocking the Metaverse crew started to move towards Orange Island! RTM Next show is scheduled for 7th of July at the Orange Island, in the beautiful environment of the Orange Island Lower Plaza at 1PM SLTime



Doubledown Tandino, Grace Mcdunnough, Slim Warrior will delight you with great music and energy! JOIN THE ROCKING THE METAVERSE GROUP!

During the Show, we will launch the Rocking the Metaverse Photo-Contest! The contest is about taking photos during the live shows and post on the group. Each week we will announce the winners during the shows!

Stay in loop: "art and rock are going to meet at the Orange Island" on the next monday 7th of july!

Second Life Summer Competition. Join the H2O Contest

Orange Island, the Museum of Second Life Photography and Koinup are pleased to announce a new SL summer photo competition: the H2O Contest. The themes are ‘Water‘ and ‘H2O‘and photographs can show any Second Life sim.



From Thursday 2nd July to Friday 10th July at midnight, you can upload up to five entries on the H2O Contest group on Koinup.com. A panel of five judges will choose the 18 best entries, which will be displayed from the 14th of July at both the Museum of SL Photography and the Orange Island Photo Gallery.

The panel will then select three photos among the 18 finalists. The winners will be announced on Orange Island on Friday, 31st July, at 10am SLT.

The winners will get Linden Dollars prizes and a chance to exhibit their work at the MoSLP and the Photo Gallery during the whole of August. As a bonus, the overall winner will be invited to talk about his work at a photo session during the summer.

1st prize: L$9000 and 9 photographs in the exhibition

2nd prize: L$6000 and 6 photographs in the exhibition

3rd prize: L$3000 and 3 photographs in the exhibition

The exhibition will be officially opened with live music at the Museum at a date to be announced. Join the Koinup, Orange Island or Museum of SL Photography groups to be notified of these events. If you need more details, please contact Mariposa Upshaw or Eric Arkright in world (in Second Life)

H2O CONTEST RULES

* Contestants must have an account on Koinup. Registration is free and takes only a few minutes.
* The photos have to be related to the theme of ‘Water’ or ‘H2O’. Use your imagination!
* From Thursday 2nd July to Friday 10th July at midnight (all times SLT), contestants can upload up to five (5) entries on the H2O Contest group on Koinup.com. If they submit more than five, only the first five will be considered.
* All entries must be tagged with “h2ocontest”
* Photos already posted on Koinup before Thursday 2nd cannot be submitted to the contest. Please submit new works.
* No brand logos or hidden advertisement. No sex, violence or offending contents. Black and white accepted.
* Entries will be judged based on artistic and emotional impact, technical skill, and theme.
* Entering the contest implies the acceptance of these rules.


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Photo Session : all about colors, part 3, by Zephyru Zapedzki

Join us this coming Tuesday 23rd of June at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for the third part of the class based on RL Photography Theory ‘Colors in Second Life’ by Zephyru Zapedzki.

Last session was focused on colors in art, photography and SL. We travelled through art history and rediscovered some masterpieces. For those of you who missed the last class, you can have a look at the transcript.

This week, Zeph will digg deeper by showing us how to use colors in the environment editor and post-processing tools. You can read more about our color teacher on the first blogpost.

Photo Sessions are events dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to make instructive classes for SL Photographers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.

Photo Session: Colors Theory and Second Life Photography. Part 2. On Monday at the Orange Island

Join us this coming Thursday 11th of June at 11.00 am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for the second part of the class based on RL Photography Theory « Colors in Second Life» by Zephyru Zapedzki.

Last session was actually focused on an introduction to colors (color theory, pigment and electric colors, the chromatic wheels and color profiles) as seen in the transcript we recently posted. This session will consist in an introduction to color in art, photography and SL. We will then observe the effects of this on the SL World Environment Editor.

Zephyru is a self-taught oil on canvas painter. He is also a musician and sometimes a photographer. Colors are an important aspect of his artistic journey.



You can join our group on Koinup (the photo-session group), a place where we share our memories from the events.

Photo Sessions are events dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to make instructive classes for SL Photographers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.

Read the story on the Orange Island blog and bookmark the slurl to join the event here

Photo Session transcript: all about colors

Thanks to Magggg and the Orange Island guys, now you have the chance to read the trascription of the latest photo session about colors lead by Zephyru Zapedzki.

You can read the transcript here

Join the Photo Session group to stay tuned with all the next photo-sessions

Photo Sessions: how to use shadows in Second Life

Join us this coming Thursday 28th May at 1.00 pm SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for an introduction to using Shadows in your Second Life art with Lordfly Digeridoo.



This session will be about getting shadows to work in Second Life and using them in your work. The first part will be a step by step tutorial for downloading the RC client to actually see shadows around your avatar. We will also discuss the many opportunities photographers now have to make their art more realistic.

Lordfly Digeridoo is a well known urban planner in Second Life, who has just made a machinima that shows how breathtaking the new shadow effects are.

You can also watch some of the works by Opensource Obscure: Experimental Realtime Shadows and Multiple Lights and Shadows and Projected Textures in Second Life.


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Photo Sessions are events dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to make instructive classes for SL Photgraphers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.

Join the Photo Sessions group to stay tuned on the calendar of events

Photo Reportage from Rocking the Metaverse first show at the Orange Island

The 1st show of the Rocking the Metaverse was a fantastic experience! Doubledown at the microphone as emcee, Dizzy Banjo, Grace Mcdunnough and Slim Warrior on the stage entertaining the audience with great music and talent!

The guys behind the Orange Island made a great job as hosters and the environment of the sim and all the areas were absolutely amazing!

We had also the the opportunity to meet Tami community manager in the Metaplace and Kyle owner of the Reaction Grid!

Reaction Grid, Metaplace and Twinity will host the Rocking the Metaverse tour in the next weeks. More updates soon!

To staty tuned with the Tour and related events, join the official Rocking the Metaverse group

Talia Tokugawa and Poid Mahovlich snapped all the time. They are the official photoreporters of the tour.

If you missed the show, you can still enjoy the mood and the atmosphere, thanks to the amazing people (and photoreporter) that sent hundreds of postcards to Koinup directly from the Orange Island. View here

Soon, you will have the chance to watch also a series of machinima based on the show, created by some valuable movie directors.






image above by Poid (original here)


Let me add some notes about the terific twitter coverage on the event:
I'm counting hundreds of posts on Twitter

Photo Session: making your own presets for the FilterCam HUD

Join us this coming Thursday 14th of May at 11.00 am SLT on the Orange Island Photo Gallery for an introduction to the FilterCam HUD created by Codebastard Redgrave.

The session will consist in a short presentation of the HUD and a class about adding your own texture masks and creating your own presets for the FilterCam.

The FilterCam HUD is a very handy tool that allows you to make your SL snapshots much more attractive without using Photoshop or any other post-processing tool. FilterCam works basically like a standard camera filter and uses four distinctive layers to make various effects combos. But the most important is in our opinion the Build your own presets feature: you can add colored filters, overlay textures, and change layer transparency directly on your screen.

If you want to know more, have a look at http://vimeo.com/3401209. If you are using this HUD, we recommend you follow the instructions on Mechanized Life.

You can watch some works made with FilterCam published on Koinup by Solange Korobase and Clarrice Cinquetti.

Photo Sessions are a series of events in Second Life dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to make instructive events for SL Photgraphers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup. We host events every Thursday at 11.00am SLT.

Codebastard Redgrave just created a group called: FilterCam Exchange whose mission is: to allow people to exchange FilterCam transparency masks through Koinup.

Photo Session: presentation of MURKU, the HUD to make comics in Second Life

Always wondering how to make comics within Second Life? This next session will be a good occasion to discover a great tool: the Murku Comic HUD. As you can see in the picture below, Deep Semaphore, the creator of Murku, did an amazing job gathering all the features you need to make a good looking comic book without leaving Second Life. Read all the story, here

Contests are very exciting for photographers. Beside getting prizes, they are a great way to meet people and exchange about making artworks in SL. That’s why the Koinup Second Life Community is pleased to participate in the SL Comics Contest. (rules)

Join us Thursday 23rd of April at 12.00pm SLT on the Orange Island Photo Gallery



Behind this contest is Deep Semaphore, creator of the Murku HUD. It is a great tool that lets you create comics frames within Second Life.

You can view a tutorial for using the Murku HUD here. To grab the HUD inwolrd, please visit here.

You can submit your entries for the metaverse comics contest, here!

Read further information about this photo session on the Orange Island blog

Photo Session: Introducing the SL Shakespeare Contest

We’re launching a new kind of event this coming Thursday: Contest inauguration.

In fact, contests are very exciting for photographers. Prizes aside, they are a great way to meet people and exchange about making artwork in SL. That’s why Koinup’s Second Life Community is pleased to participate in the SL Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 1 Contest run by Ina Centaur.

Join us on Thursday 16th of April at 12.00pm SLT on the Orange Island Photo Gallery.

The session will consist in a presentation of the company by Ixmal supermarine and some points about how to take good pictures during a live event. There will be also Wildstar Beaumont showing off some amazing pictures taken during the Shakespeare show in SL.

The SL Shakespeare Company’s long-awaited open-ended run of Twelfth Night, Act 1 is on!

Koinup and the SL Shakespeare Company have teamed up to offer a photography contest with prizes totaling L$100,000 for artwork derived from the SL Shakespeare Company’s open-ended run of Twelfth Night, Act 1. They innovate in invitating all the photographers to join them in creativity! Read more about the contest

Photo Session: Talia Tokugawa to teach Depth of Field

There are some Photoshop techniques every photographer should know and one of them is how to adjust the Depth of Field in your composition. Talia Tokugawa, brilliant mind, scripter and photographer will be on Orange Island to describe and explain the whole process of controlling the sharpness of your subject. You may have had a look at her depth of field tutorial, here. Come and learn during a live event with other photographers.

Join us on Thursday 9th of April at 12.00pm SLT on the Orange Island Photo Gallery.

Photo Sessions: Tur class and exhibition on the Orange Island

Meet us tomorrow, Thursday 26th of March, at 12.00pm SLT for a Photo Session dedicated to exploring the world of widely acclaimed artist Tur.

Read more on the Orange Island blog

Recently, Photo Sessions became a regular event held every Thursday, co-hosted with Koinup. We are very proud to welcome one of the most popular and talented artists on the Koinup Second Life Community.

This session is a special event because we will be launching Tur’s exhibition on the Orange Island Photo Gallery. We will display a selection of his works during two weeks. Thursday you will have the opportunity to ask him about the story behind them.

Following a friendly talk, Tur will share his Photoshop post-processing method with us. You can lose your words and have a look at the amazing Tur gallery on Koinup

Direct slurl for the island, here!

A new Madpea game to join. The Kaaos Effect landed on the Orange Island

"An unusual building has landed on Orange Island. Are you curious enough to discover what has happened and where it came from? Using various communications devices scattered across time, the player will embark on a remarkable journey, an adventure that takes Second Life gaming steps further.

Be careful when touching those buttons though... you never know when you might end up"...Read more on the Kaaos Effect Group

Kaaos Effect is a Second Life game created by Madpea productions and sponsored by Orange Island
You can read more about this fashinating game on the Orange Island blog

Mentor Review Sessions. Today on the Orange Island

"Are you a beginner or an intermediate photographer in Second Life? Are you making art experiments and would love to receive constructive comments from the most skilled Koinup members?

Great, this event is for you" Read more on the Orange Island blog

For the second time, Orange Island & Koinup Photo Sessions host a “Mentor review”, a great concept created by Trixibelle (Cala Rossini in SL) called “Mentor Project”.

Join us on Orange Island Thursday, March 19th at 1PM SLT to show your work to SL’s most talented mentors: Senna Coronet and Cala Rossini.

They will review your work and make a deep analysis of it, and also give you advice & tips to improve your snaps & use your favorite softwares.

So don’t be shy and submit your work to Cala Rossini in-world!

Here's the direct slurl to the Orange Island Gallery