Photography is a very rewarding activity that one can undertake in Second Life.  There is an amazing variety of people and places to photograph.  You can also take your own picture and use it to create your profile pic.  Lighting is a very important factor to consider when taking pictures as it has a major affect on the look and feel of the photograph.  Below are examples of the same subject under different lighting conditions.  These pics are not re-touched in any way.

The best setting for portrait seems to be the ’sunrise’ setting.  To get this just go to your ‘edit’ menu, scroll down to ‘world’ and click ’sunrise…or indeed any other setting that you want. 

Another thing to remember when you’re busy taking pics - if you’re using other lighting effects, you’ll want to make sure that the settings in your ‘graphics detail’ tab is set to ‘local lighting’… otherwise your lighting effects will not be visible.  It also helps if you move your detail sliders all the way to the right in order to get the best possible appearance etc for your avatar.  For those of you, like myself, who are running SL on slower computers, these settings can always be reduced when you’ve finished taking your picture.

Happy Snapping! 

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