Taking the Best Photos Possible?

Ryker Beck has some great tutorials. The last one has many tips about using the freeze frame:

I found a lot of things there I didn't know. I think it's hard to navigate Rezzable's blog, but I googled Ryker Beck and found more tutorials.

It is a "Photoshop Me" group on Flickr that can be worth looking at, and you can post questions there.

My small tribute to the tips is this gadget:

The same function comes in the VR professional posestand/HUD. .
This is more for the Fashion bloggers, I like to use Anya Ristows Camera Lock because it is wearable and I can use it everywhere, I don't have to be in a SIM that allows me to rez objects.

Not much to add to this wonderful thread but I love the Ctrl 0 It brings the camera in closer on the subject.

Tired the freeze frame but cant get my ctrl 0 to work with it maybe I am doing something wrong?

It actually does more than that; it changes the perspective. Faces generally look better (less bulbous), and you get less of the background (which can be good or bad). It's the equivalent of a zoom lense on a camera, and is a very important tool for composing the shot.

In traditional photography, we have 4 fundamental controls: shutter speed, aperture, focus, and focal length (zoom).

The first two, in combination, govern the exposure level -- something we don't need in SL. But each one has another effect.

Shutter speed can freeze motion or blur it -- with SL we only get frozen action as in fast shutter speed. No doubt by taking two shots in succession and using clever software we could emulate motion blur, but that's way over my skillz.

Aperture (how far open the iris is) affects the depth of field. With a wide aperture, depth is very narrow, so stuff in front of or behind where you focus on is out of focus. With a narrow aperture, everything is in focus from very close to the far distance. That's the only option we get in SL (everything in focus).

And since everything is in focus, we don't need a focus control -- just like an inexpensive snapshot camera.

In the 1.23 viewer, open Snapshot Preview:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Windows#Snapshot_Preview
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Windows#Snapshot_Preview

Click "more" to see extra options

Under size select the last item (Custom Size)

Now you can set really large photo sizes, I was able to dial in up to 6016x6016 (this may be graphics card limited, but I dont have another computer to test it on).

Use save to hard drive, then play in your favorite editor.

You can also hold down Ctrl while clicking somewhere on your body.. I usually click on my face near my eyes and it helps control the eye movement