The rise of in-game photography has left people asking: when is a screenshot a photograph and is it ever art? Source: The photographer subculture inside Fallout, GTA and Left 4 Dead This is a piece written by Richard Moss, after an interview with me about why I create images in Second Life. I do not […]
Category: Photography
Gardens, Immersion and Virtual Worlds
Earlier this month, the garden designer, Dan Pearson, was the guest on Desert Island Discs 1 on Radio 4. Early on he spoke about what he thought of gardens: I think they are a place of escape, and a place of immersion. They are somewhere where you can be yourself, completely. I think they provide you […]
Art or Enchantment?
I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently looking at the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) sims, but a couple of nights ago I moved off them and headed towards Black Basalt Beach and L’Arc-en-Ciel. I also recently came across a chapter in a book called ‘The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of […]
The Image that Talked Back
Six and a half years ago, I took a highly significant rl photo, one that on almost immediate reflection I found immensely powerful and had meaning way beyond what I had intended. Quietly introspective, I was walking out of frame. It had none of the vigorousness of my earlier work during that period of photographic […]
Digital Art: Abstract? Representational?
It’s an interesting quandary. What is at the root of digital art that comes out of virtual worlds? Part of what I like about photographing (or image capturing – that debate’s for another day) virtual worlds is the time spent looking. The mindful approach I talked about in my last post. I went along to […]
Windlight and Weather: the value of not being in control
I followed a link the other day to Ricco Saenz’s blog where he discusses Virtual photographing and windlight tips. I’d been discussing windlight earlier in the day and come to a quite different conclusion. What follows is not intended as a contradiction, but a continuing discussion on windlight; in the end, there is no wrong […]
Autumn to Winter, Leaf fall to Snow
From heat through leaf fall to snow, Second Life mimics the temperate world. But unlike the real thing, you aren’t going to be stranded, freezing and sliding around in ice and snow. It has an idealised, regular and predictable pattern. And even if you think of snow as cold, white wet stuff you could cheerfully […]