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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

.☾. makes such natural and realistic pictures. It’s odd, but for me, duotone, especially black and white, look so much more real than color pictures. Red is such a provocative color. It can be passionate and lurid. Sure enough, look closely, that sign says they are shopping for porn videos. She included an inspiration video, ”Supplier” by Kari Faux

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I love this picture. I love how she is framed by the seaweed. I love the color story. It’s full-color but feels like a blue-yellow (gold) duotone. Her body looks naturally at rest as though she is another Ophelia.

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This is another extraordinary photo that makes me wonder how, how, how do people take such realistic pictures in Second Life. It’s full color but desaturated so again creates a simple color story. 

.☾. has an extraordinary ability to create photos that look so lifelike that I am in awe. She shoots her life including her partner. Best of all, her pictures are safe for work. The one coming out of the water is about as provocative as they get. 

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Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.


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One response to “This Artist Uses Dynamic Duotone to Help Make Second Life Screenshots Look Like Artful Real Life Photographs”

  1. Gwyneth Llewelyn Avatar

    The mind boggles at what can be done in SL.
    I wish LL started hiring those insanely good photographers for their own promotional work. It starts getting very boring to get the media always republishing those 2007 screenshots that are part of LL’s “media pack”.
    Someone at the Lab should definitely take a look at what can be accomplished in their virtual world, with their technology, and just some very good content. But you’re supposed to show off the best — look at Meta, who spews out advertisement videos showing content that simply doesn’t exist yet (some of it shot from within Second Life, according to some very acute observers), in the hope they attract a few more million users to “their” virtual world.
    Just imagine that picture that carries merely the label “Screenshot (578)” with the simple message at the top: “Join the Metaverse. TODAY.”, and possibly at the bottom the old marketing message “Second Life: Your world. Your imagination”.
    Now measure the impact of such a picture — especially when linked to some carefully selected portfolio presented as a “showpiece” not to Second Life residents — who are used to such beautiful images — but rather to a mass audience out there.
    There is so much that could be said about any of those pictures (or any in her Flickr stream, too) that I would bet most people would not believe that these pictures were, in fact, taken in Second Life.
    Mind you, from this very short selection, I actually like the first one best (“Screenshot 576”). It’s because that, taken out of context — if you had no idea what the image is about — it’s impossible to distinguish from a real-life photo. It could be used as a promotion for some sort of CD/DVD shop — well, you’d have to change the “Pornography” sign up there on the wall…

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