Reel Expression

I spent all day yesterday with a friend of mine at a cemetery in northern Chicago. Here are some of the pictures I took:

I made some new shoe poses for the 2009 Footwear Expo.

From now until Dec 6th they will only be available at the shoe fair (TAXI) where a percentage of everything sold goes to toys for tots. After the 2nd, it will be in my main store.

Posting this early cause I’m already running late for drinks with a friend. Don’t think I’ll be back in time…

Really busy with getting another pose set ready for Shoe Fair on Sunday. Right after I released the stairs set, Caer Balogh mentioned that tomorrow is my 2,000th day in SL. So I decided to have another by 1 get 1 free sale.

For the entire day - ending on Saturday 21 November @ midnight SLT - buy 1 pose, get 1 free. EVERYTHING in the store.

Rules:
1. Must purchase before midnight SLT on Saturday 21 November 2009
2. Send a notecard with what you purchased and what you want - must be of equal or lesser value.
3. This is for EVERYTHING. boxed and single items - pose sets, prop pose sets, and couples poses, single poses, AOs, Prefabs, ect.

I will be handing them out on Monday.

Main Store Taxi

new set of 12 static object poses are out now!

They are designed to go with the scripted stairs. The scripts inside will not only adjust the avatar, but save the positioning for up to 100 different avies.

Main Store Taxi

Hopefully next weekend I’ll be going on a photo shoot with a friend somewhere out in Chicago. For at least some of the shots, I was hoping to do a little playing around with high dynamic range imaging (HDRI). It’s a photography technique that increases the range between the lightest and darkest parts of an image by merging multiple exposures of the same shot.

Yesterday I was reading up on some tutorials and found you can cheat it by processing 1 image into the various under and over exposed steps and merge them together. So I dug up the RAW images of my trip to Rome a couple of years ago and had a bit of a play. It might not be true HDRI, but they certainly look interesting.

Update:
About the sources used to “cheat” HDRI. Its actually rather easy if you are using photomatix: copy the picture the amount of times you want (need about 3-5 total), drag them into the box for “generate HDR,” and the program will tell you they are the same exposure and ask if and how much you want to change the E.V. spacing. There are a few other ways to do it, but that’s what I did.

My entire process was pretty much taken in bits and pieces from these 3 tutorials:
http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleever/145838011/in/set-72057594134300570/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleever/255026221/