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)

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 : Art Trivia, a quizz about your favourite pieces. Today at the Orange Island

Join us this coming Thursday 2nd of July at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for a very fun event : Art Trivia.

Art Trivia is a game to teach art in a new funny way. Join us at the Orange Island.

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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 Photographers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.

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

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A Photo Session all about colors by Zephyru Zapedzki

Join us this coming Monday 1st of June at 11.00 am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for our first class based on RL Photography Theory «Colors in Second Life» by Zephyru Zapedzki.

This session will consist in an introduction to color in Art/Photography/SL. We will then observe the effects of this on the way we use the SL World Environment Editor. Finally, we’ll have some tips about how to work colors out of SL and some practical lessons.



When we asked Zephyru to describe himself he said: «In RL I am mainly an oil on canvas painter and my work’s characteristic is still the vast diversity of styles and themes. I’m also a musician and sometimes a photographer. I'm a self-taughted artist in all the ways of art that I use, a polymath defending the “do-it-yourself” erudition. We can handle photography in SL as in RL, the biggest difference is that in SL we have no limits.»

We wanted to know why he decided to teach us the color Theory and he replied «I’ve been accused of having a great sense of color in my RL work, so maybe this helped my decision. Colors are important in photography as eyes are important to see. Even in the black and white photography, colors determinate the tonality of the grays.»

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.


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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 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