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1. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   This exists, I think, for most viewers already? Or for BD anyway. It's not something I use: generally, if you've focused your camera on a figure or object, the DoF remains stable, and I don't need to lock it in. My issue with RL photography is that I tend to sort of panic when it comes to settings -- which is very different for some reason from the slow and very methodical approach I have in SL. I end up sort of wildly mashing settings unless I get a grip on myself. Oh, I do this. I almost never send a pic out into the wild without post-processing, and 90% of that tends to adjusting the light and contrast. I'm a firm believer that post-processing is an absolutely vital and totally legitimate element of photography, and historically speaking has been for a century and a half or so. The greatest photographers knew their way around a darkroom -- and digital processing has just made the process a little easier (and involving fewer potentially dangerous chemicals). The problem is that the auto adjustment tends to muck with the contrast. If it just made stuff brighter or darker, that would be easily compensated for -- but it changes the lighting of elements of a scene in relation to each other, which makes a selective application of contrast more difficult. I find that it's best, by far, to begin with a base shot that needs little more than tweaking, rather than one where I'm having to apply burn and dodge selectively to elements of the pic. I do the latter when needed, but basically I want a base shot that is as close to the finished look as I can get, because this gives me much more freedom to apply more dramatic effects.

2. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   i had this happen once. except the party in question chose to send fifteen notecards to every single person i knew at the roleplay sim we were all part of at the time. and then was outraged he was banned and ARed for griefing. i never did find out the contents of those cards, but he and his girl remain blocked to this day. and as a related peeve, finding a notecard from him in my trash begging me to be his friend again. HELL NO.

3. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   shhhhh! We don't say that kind of thing in public. If the normies get wind that we use graphics tools on our graphics, they will think we're normal people, and we can't have that. They need to believe that we are all photography savants, who intuitively take perfect pictures, every time, in full manual mode, while switching primes with an f-stop of 0.01 (which is mathematically possible, but only if you have a black hole in your lens).

4. Theatre, Play, and Deception in SL, Which, When, and Why?

   reposting for truth. what i thought was a small group of like-minded friends.... was actually a toxic echo chamber and since i tended to step out of line not agreeing with all lines of thought from the leader, i suffered consequences until i had enough and kicked them all the hell out of my life.

5. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   Using software to edit the picture a bit afterwards is totally normal for photographers. Heck, on one of the most expensive photo's ever sold in the world (Andreas Gursky’s, Rhein II) there was originally a plant and a man walking his dog. Those were during post processing removed. Don't make it too hard for yourself. Almost every photographer processes afterwards a bit, even far before the digital world started.