SL Blogger’s photography excellence
November 1, 2007 5:30 amAfter a long, friendly chat with CodeBastard Redgrave last night - just disregard the gun I held to her head - I now know 2 things for sure:
- She and Nadine are ‘an item’ for over six months now.
- The winners of the SL Bloggers party photography contest.
Assuming all but me already knew about that relationship, I’ll go directly to announcing the winners of a free year of Flickr Pro, a Machinima Cam and a lifetime supply of free VintLab outfits (mod or copy, to your liking) to those that according to CodeBastard Redgrave and Vint Falken took the best photographs of the SL bloggers party themed ‘Robots’ held at the Code Red Lounge in October 2007:
The one year free Flickr Pro and a big ‘W00t!’ from Codie and I go to Ryker Beck for her photograph Panoramic RedHawtness. We feel Ryker, who is a long time SL photographer and recently started a great blog at Rykerized - check out her tutorials -, deserves first prize because of the original non-standard dimensions of the photograph and delivering a great and interesting ‘overview’ of the SL Blogger’s party. Having such a wide view with the people in the middle gives a feel of coming together, getting to know each other and intimacy. *applauds*
Second prize, a Machinima Cam (and free updates for that one) will find his way to Raul Crimson from A Crimson World. Raul’s Dancing with the Sun has a great composition which clearly displays the party atmosphere and action going on: we’re all young, sexy and a robot! ;) The distort glow effect makes it a shiny pleasure for the eye, and Codie just loved the use of the lens flare. I think it might have been a stronger picture without that, as it sort of diminishes the ‘eye force field’ from Veyron’s cute pixelatd butt to Crap & Codie to Vint & the stranger. But to flare or not to flare, it’s a kick ass picture!
A lifetime supply of VintLab clothing goes to Nadine Nozaki for her excellent Vint & Nadine at the Code Red. The lady from the Winter Market does a great job at displaying with this photograph how I looked at the idea ‘metaverse’ before I ever knew it. Reading William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, I imagined untanned, pale humans with implants and androids doing ordinary daily stuff. The paradox of such ‘advanced’ creature playing a classical piano, is just awesome.
*asks for another round of virtual applause for or three winners and gives all winners 6 kisses: 3 from her and 3 on behalf of Codie*
Something rather stupid that ‘ruled out’ a lot of photographs - and made our task of picking the winners more easy - was the ‘jagged edges’ or ‘alias’ bug we so often find by Second Life photographs. Probably having a top notch graphics cards may help to prevent this. I don’t know for sure though, as I don’t have that. What does help is in the snapshot window, pumping the resolution up: 1600×1200 I use for normal snapshotting, 3200×2400 if I know I’ll need a huge final result or am planning to seriously crop the picture. And see: jaggy edges are no more! (or at least less ;)
17 Responses to “SL Blogger’s photography excellence”
WOOT! Thanks!!!! /me runs to take his machihima cam…
I totally agree with the ellection of the winner, Ryker took an excellent shot, congratulations!!!
And a big hug for Codie and Nadine!
You didn’t now me and Codie was a pair, i was a little reluctant to enter my image just because of that. I feel like I have won first place, your stuff is amazing. I feel so honored, and really hope my relation with half the jury played to much role in this.
/me kisses Vint back three times, the kissing back on Codie I’ll save, to a special time.
Nadine giggles, the view on flickr is that order as well :-) I think you two made the right choose, except maybe you placed me to high.
@raul: your special prize will be delivered inworld tonight. congrats dear! im glad you win this thing, i have a feeling that you could do awesome machinima ^^
@nadine: yeah she didnt know! i mean does she go outside sometimes or what? ;) we almost wrote it on the walls ^^ but anyways, big kisses to my beautiful winner
@ryker: *slaps your bum!* congrats Ryker, you diserve some recognition for all of your gorgeous work! love ya!
[…] Vint Falken has a much more extended review of the contest. […]
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *faints dead*
OMG!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much so much SO MUCH!!!
And to everyone else, Raul, DAMN I loved your picture!!! Nadine, GAWD I loved yours too. OMG. I’m so stunned.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Congrats to the winners! You all did a great job :)
To the jury: Maybe you should have mentioned before that you’ll favor “photoshopped” or otherwise enhanced pictures to simple unedited shots?
Tim you should have guessed if you knew Vint *giggle*
“The boobs are a little square, we don’t like that” or what was it she said in her tutorial.
I’m glad to have helped out by supplying my pixelated butt for the shot. :) Maybe next time I can do it without the robotic knees.
@thimoty: believe me, it was not a criteria for the selections, at all. we had unretouched works in the first round of selection actually. its rather the high aliasing that discarded those, but not the fact they were not retouched. it was the last of our concerns ;)
So to avoid aliasing and get a chance in the contest the choice is to either retouch pics or get a high-end graphics card?
Dunno, Timothy. As I said, I have an 4 y old graphics card.
What does help is in the snapshot window, pumping the resolution up.
But indeed, we picked the once we thought looked best. The aliasing kills a photograph, just as bad focus for instance, does IRL.
And Nadine, I think that sentence will haunt me for the rest of my SLife. =d
@ Codie: Thanks, i just made a couple of Machinima, but the camera was killing me and are not good, now i’ll work for a better one.
@ Veyron: Thanks to your wonderful pixelated butt i won the Cam, ty!!!
@Vint: Life’s much better today, thanks for listening :)
Woo hoo!! Many congratulations to all the winners. Excellent photos, all of them. Have fun with your prizes.
Congratulations to all winners! Great pictures!
Yes, congratulations to the winners..
That many contests with interesting rewards lately..
** me is considering to dedicate some of her valuable time to snapshooting again..**
So,.. when will the official prize giving ceremony take place??
You better hurry Vint.. the other day I met Nadine in Brugge, where she was, as she stated, in order to claim her prize.. And it seems the girl ment business.. she carried an impressive machinegun for the occasion..
(or, was it just to scare the annoying rabbit away..??)
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