011 - Penguins

Dim Sum auditions for the Penguin Rockettes.

This little bird is actually very easy to overlook, because it is relatively small compared to the children and other things. Plus, it was on steps with the same color.

It's the little details like this, the little surprises, that make great builds. You don't see everything the first time; the more you dig around, the more you see.

I also thought it was very cool that it reflected the penguins behind it, like a secret motif. Like the stripes on the stairs reflect the stripes on the children's shorts and on the rats.

location: LEA23 - "The Arrival" by Rose Borchovski

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- Lo Light 03 (modified)

• I had to use Ctrl-0 to visually narrow the distance between the bird and the penguins; otherwise, the penguins would look really, really small.
• I retook the photo because the first one had clouds that were distracting.
• I had to click the refresh in the photo tool until I could catch it in this pose, which goes very fast.

010 - Drummer boy

/me stares down the striped prey and wonders if it's as tasty as its plainer and smaller relatives.


I've seen Rose Borchovski's work in many machinimas before, and I've been itching to come to this sim for a few days now.  I love the faces of her children.  I imagine them to be the Lost Boys.  But I'm not showing a face here.  Just the legs of one of the drummers (there are at least two).

location: LEA23 - "The Arrival" by Rose Borchovski

Technical notes

windlight: Midday 4 (modified)
water: [NB] Turbid Reflections

009 - Three arches to the knight

This definitely took more than an hour.  But I didn't care.  I had a disappointing day; I figured I deserve to take as long as I damn well pleased.  So there.  ;)

location: Seven Veils - The Heights

Technical notes

windlight: Pirate (modified)

I did something wrong while creating a new sky preset and I lost these settings, so I can't exactly reproduce this windlight anymore. 

008 - The scarecrow and the unscared crow

While I was looking for a spot to shoot today, someone else saw my avatar and wanted to know where I got it. She hates the freebie cat avatar that LL gives away, but she likes mine which I got from Zooby, and she was hoping it would be a freebie. I sent her the landmark to Zooby and told her how much it costs.

But we ended up having a long conversation, because, ... well, ...

She's very young and doesn't have L$ and doesn't have a credit card or bank account and won't ask her parents to buy L$ for her and doesn't want to be bothered with filling out job applications and thinks that greeting people at a venue as a hostess is too much work and doesn't know how to create products that people will buy and doesn't want to search the web for tutorials and doesn't want to take classes to learn how to create.

*sighs*

location: Seven Veils - Exteriors

Technical notes

windlight: Phototools- rara Fal

This definitely took more than 15 minutes. I don't want to get rid of that limitation though, because it keeps me focused.

007 - Are you food or will you feed me?

Hello, fish lady. Are you food or will you feed me?

location: Seven Veils - The Promenade

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] SCIFI - Rimmenthal (modified)
water: SNAKE!!!

I definitely took longer than 15 minutes with this one. I was hoping I'd be able to do DOF again, but I kept crashing.

006 - Or better yet, which?

I was about to move on to another sim, then I found this hidden hall with beautiful arches and textures.  I wanted to capture the hall itself, but the more intriguing thing (I thought) was a white cat where this raven-man altar stood.  It looked very much like Dim Sum, and it was even animated, turning its head this way and that, once in a while.  Then I caught a moment when they were looking at each other.

So, today, the question is not "Where is Dim Sum?" but "Which is Dim Sum?"  :D

location: Seven Veils - The Promenade

Technical notes

windlight: PhotoTools- Lo Light 05

005 - Orchids

location: Seven Veils - The Garden - Temptation

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] FOGGY - Peach Peche

Well, I couldn't do shadows, but, apparently, I can do depth of field, even if only long enough to take a picture before I crash!  :D  So, here's a play on DoF.

Depth of Field:
Camera F Number: 21.0
Camera Focal Length mm: 85.0
Camera FOV degs: 62.0
Camera Aspect Ration: 1.50
DOF Focus Transition Time: 0.50
DOF Rendering Quality: 0.70