Here are two questions: what is your process to take pictures inside Second Life? Do you do a lot of post-processing on the photos?

Madame Reve: When the inspiration is there, whether it is purely aesthetic or emotional, I like to first imagine a pose and a staging that fits me. I can spend hours designing my scene, finding an outfit, accessories and then making the picture the image by modeling the pose, light, and framing.

Since I started photography in Second Life, I use the Black Dragon viewer which offers very advanced options to create poses and get a rendering of light and shadow very close to reality. The rendering is always so beautiful!

Thanks to this tool, I can modulate the poses with great precision and allow me not to edit my images too much in Photoshop. I still like to adjust the colorimetry for a more colored, contrasted or black and white rendering according to my desires, but I don't have so much post-processing.

Why do you like photography as a medium?

Madame Reve: I'm pretty much a beginner as a digital artist, but I think my avatar looks like my real personality and I like to express my emotions through it. I like to be able to share them and have them felt by those who will be sensitive to them, that they are palpable through the image. I often compliment them with a song to match the image and the mood.

I have been passionate about art since I was a child. I personally already do drawing and painting, as well as photo editing. SL photography now makes me want to express myself in real life. It is a way to immortalize a moment of my life and a feeling, an emotion, or an aesthetic or graphic element (combining the two is the best). 

I hope to create many more ;)