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Description
(This art is displayed @ my Secondlife Art Gallery)

As part of a SecondLife Photoart contest for the new home sim of the "DISTRESSED TEXTURES" creator/vendor, I tried to capture my own contest submissions at the ETERNIDAD sim. I was not going to participate as the sim is very beautiful but with the very large prize and the relatively limited photo opportunities on the sim, I didnt think I would have much of a chance against such amazing artists.

But I decided to go and see if my eye could catch something unique on the sim - something that at first glance looks very simple yet if taken from the right angle and lighting and with the right texturing, it could maybe turn to be a pleasent surprise on the sim. Well a weather-beaten picket fence with overgrown wild grasses caught my eye.

My camera was set to a position to make the fence stretch to the center-point of the photo from the bottom left third of the photo with the sim's ocean horizon in the distance. Then I ended up taking taking 3 identical photos from the exact cam position while experimenting with different sim SKY environment parameters.

Turns out take the 3 photos from the same position was helpful. I ended up layering them on top of each other and then played with the blending and balance of the 3 until I got an lighting/sky mood that I really liked!

I wanted to add a roughness and further beaten coloring to the art and the clouds, so I used two of my private Real Life photos (a wallpaper and a sandstone wall) that I had. Finally I added a brightness layer to brighten up the grasses and then mask out the sky back to the Dark Looming rain clouds look.

I am happy how it turned out - when I wasnt even sure where I was going with this in the first place. Its called "WILD PICKET"

CREDITS & PERMISSION:

All textures used to manipulate & enhance the main SL virtual photo are my own private stock textures.

The main fence/grasses photographs are my own from the virtual world of SecondLife. I abided by all terms and conditions formally set out by the owners of SecondLife - LindenLab Inc. when taking this photograph. See details of builders of the sim in SecondLife that I photographed below:

The SecondLife 3D Builder & Sim info where I took photo...
Artists: Jewell Lamourfou
SIM Name: Eternidad - New Home of Distressed Textures
SURL LM (need SL Viewer to use this link) : [link]
The Blended textures on the art is of my own private collection of Real Life photography

SECONDLIFE "PHOTOGRAPHY" COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS:
This artwork is a Photo Manipulation that includes photo(s) taken within the virtual 3D worlds of SecondLife (aka SL). For those not aware of SL, in-world virtual photography of the 3D content created inside SL for use inside or outside of SL if taken on lands permitted by the content creator to take virtual photography is agreed to by all residents of the SL service and display their 3D creations in SL.
THIS IS NOT SCREENSHOTS OF A GAME & does not violate any DA Terms of Service.

All SL residents agree to conditional virtual photography of their content as part of the Legal Terms of Service agreement with LindenLab Inc - the owner/operator of SL. The rights of the photographer are equivilent to that of photographers in real life taking photographs of real life objects, subjects, scenery.

As such, formal permissions have been given to use these SL photographs I take as I abide by the conditions within SL and of the content creators. I go a step further & credit the 3D content creators and the location of the SL Sim where I took the photo (like GPS in real life). This is not mandatory but I feel they deserve the credit.

To all DA Group Admins or Contest Owners: Accept this statement as formal credit/permission of the photos I created within SL for this work. Thank you!

Description
(This art is displayed @ my Secondlife Art Gallery)

As part of a SecondLife Photoart contest for the new home sim of the "DISTRESSED TEXTURES" creator/vendor, I tried to capture my own contest submissions at the ETERNIDAD sim. I was not going to participate as the sim is very beautiful but with the very large prize and the relatively limited photo opportunities on the sim, I didnt think I would have much of a chance against such amazing artists.

But I decided to go and see if my eye could catch something unique on the sim - something that at first glance looks very simple yet if taken from the right angle and lighting and with the right texturing, it could maybe turn to be a pleasent surprise on the sim. Well a weather-beaten picket fence with overgrown wild grasses caught my eye.

My camera was set to a position to make the fence stretch to the center-point of the photo from the bottom left third of the photo with the sim's ocean horizon in the distance. Then I ended up taking taking 3 identical photos from the exact cam position while experimenting with different sim SKY environment parameters.

Turns out take the 3 photos from the same position was helpful. I ended up layering them on top of each other and then played with the blending and balance of the 3 until I got an lighting/sky mood that I really liked!

I wanted to add a roughness and further beaten coloring to the art and the clouds, so I used two of my private Real Life photos (a wallpaper and a sandstone wall) that I had. Finally I added a brightness layer to brighten up the grasses and then mask out the sky back to the Dark Looming rain clouds look.

I am happy how it turned out - when I wasnt even sure where I was going with this in the first place. Its called "WILD PICKET"

CREDITS & PERMISSION:

All textures used to manipulate & enhance the main SL virtual photo are my own private stock textures.

The main fence/grasses photographs are my own from the virtual world of SecondLife. I abided by all terms and conditions formally set out by the owners of SecondLife - LindenLab Inc. when taking this photograph. See details of builders of the sim in SecondLife that I photographed below:

The SecondLife 3D Builder & Sim info where I took photo...
Artists: Jewell Lamourfou
SIM Name: Eternidad - New Home of Distressed Textures
SURL LM (need SL Viewer to use this link) : [link]
The Blended textures on the art is of my own private collection of Real Life photography

SECONDLIFE "PHOTOGRAPHY" COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS:
This artwork is a Photo Manipulation that includes photo(s) taken within the virtual 3D worlds of SecondLife (aka SL). For those not aware of SL, in-world virtual photography of the 3D content created inside SL for use inside or outside of SL if taken on lands permitted by the content creator to take virtual photography is agreed to by all residents of the SL service and display their 3D creations in SL.
THIS IS NOT SCREENSHOTS OF A GAME & does not violate any DA Terms of Service.

All SL residents agree to conditional virtual photography of their content as part of the Legal Terms of Service agreement with LindenLab Inc - the owner/operator of SL. The rights of the photographer are equivilent to that of photographers in real life taking photographs of real life objects, subjects, scenery.

As such, formal permissions have been given to use these SL photographs I take as I abide by the conditions within SL and of the content creators. I go a step further & credit the 3D content creators and the location of the SL Sim where I took the photo (like GPS in real life). This is not mandatory but I feel they deserve the credit.

To all DA Group Admins or Contest Owners: Accept this statement as formal credit/permission of the photos I created within SL for this work. Thank you!