LUMIPro Spotlight

Everyone loves a fabulous portrait . We want them to look elegant and the lighting perfect. No easy photo to achieve but one that captures your model in timeless beauty.

LUMIPro spotlights some wonderful work of the portrait photographers.

Maxi Gossamer by Morgana Nagorski

Laurel Head Shot by Sydney Bonde

Hugo Zelle by Thalia Heckroth
 

Sabine by Corinne J. Helendale
 

Check out LUMIPro. LUMIPro is a game changer in lighting for photography in Second Life. It was developed by a pro photographer RL who found the lighting systems available in Second Life to be inadequate and got tired of the limitation of rezzing prim and moving them each time he reposed his model. LUMIPro changes all this.

Find these fabulous artists on LUMIPro Flickr. 

Find LUMIPro L3 on marketplace and at the LUMIPro Headquarters.

"Lucid Dreams" ~ Sponsored by LUMIPro

A warm welcome from LUMIPro - the sponsor of "Lucid Dreams"
LUMIPro is a professional lighting and pose system for artists, photographers, and machinimists.  The system has been used for 3 magazine covers so far in 2012 as well as some of the leading art and music videos.  Come check out a demo of our system at lumipro.blogspot.com  and check out a gallery of our work.

I'm happy to announce LUMIPro's ongoing sponsorships of arts in Second Life.  Morgana Nagorski and Palais Orleans Gallery is hosting a art showing "Lucid Dream" featuring  Amona Savira and Harbor Galaxy.

I have personal fondness for Palais Orleans as the previous owner of the gallery and I were early collaborators on LUMIPro and I'm proud to help continue her legacy.

Morgana Nagorski is an avid LUMIPro user and advocate to the art world and I'm excited LUMIPro gets a chance to be involved with it.

Amona used LUMIpro for all of her pics in the exhibition and Harbor for about a third, and she is now experimenting further with it.

Colleen and I are looking forward to seeing you at the opening parties.

Stefan Buscaylet


All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Amona's statement about the show


"Just sinking into the dreamland she wanted so much, like a relief, a wanted ending to another day. Eyes closed, her body being one with the ground, just waiting for memory to escape her. Never being conscious of the moment when she faded in from the reality into the dream.

Enjoying the lucid dreams carrying her over water, to distant cities, the encounters with strangers, just briefly discovering their secrets, dreams of dreams, each more deeper than the other.

Floating moments, more vague now, the dream slowly filling her body, making it weightless and translucent. Mirroring it in distant oceans, posed in colored rooms, wander through dream gardens, between painted walls and encounter lovers and fairies, friends and enemies.

She would just live the dream, picturing it, seek and sense it and just dwell in it, like being in another existence or a second life."
This was the dream I wanted to be in - and that I wanted to picture.

It has been a joy working with Harbor. Her obvious artistic sense and skills has been an inspiration for me and has made me challenge myself, and I hope you will notice that.

Thank yo so much Morgana for your work with preparing and creating the shows for your gallery and work with us. It is very exciting for me to exhibit in your gallery.

Second Life has been a blessing for me and made me able to use my artistic skills again. Thanks to my friends in SL and in Flickr, without you this would not be as fun. And thanks to my partner, you know how much you mean to me.

Amona Savira May 2012




Harbor's statement about the show


I've always felt that Second Life was a type of Lucid Dreaming, a world created by our fantasies and desires. A world vivid while immersed in it yet ephemeral upon departure. A dream within a dream.
My hope was to convey that ephemeral quality of the dream state.. a vision short lived, grasped for a moment by the mind only to disappear, leaving us with a vague memory or sensation.

My many thanks to Morgana for all the work she does in creating and supporting these shows at her gallery and for her belief in my work. Thank you to Amona..who's talent makes me want to expand and push my personal horizons and last but certainly not least thank you to all who use this dream we call Second Life to create. It is your acts of creation from the smallest item to the largest sim that fuels this dream.


Harbor Galaxy May 2012


Transport to the gallery

I'm extremely excited about this show, having seen some of the artwork already I can you tell this is another not to be missed gallery. I've been in Second Life since 2007 and I've been very fortunate to meet and work with some of Second Life's phenomenal artists and photographers. I sincerely hope that you will stop by this gallery. Morgana Nagorski  chooses her gallery artists with an expert eye as an artist herself in both worlds. Support Art in Second Life.

See you there,
Colleen Criss

LUMIPro Spotlight

You spend hours creating your set , finding your perfect look, adding the right accessories, so why not have the perfect light to enhance it all. Check out LUMIPro. LUMIPro is a game changer in lighting for photography in secondlife. It was developed by a pro photographer RL who found the lighting systems available in secondlife to be inadequate and got tired of the limitation of rezzing prim and moving them each time he reposed his model. LUMIPro changes all this. 

 Damnation by ςคlyקร๏ รקคгг๏ฬtгєє

Elicea XV by Morgana Nagorski

SIMPLE MORNINGS by Applonia Criss

torch by Jessica Belmer

Chained by Domitalia Jinx 

 

 Please visit these wonderful artists flickr sites to see more of their awesome works, or catch them on the LUMIPro flickr listed on the side bar of this blog.

LUMIPro at a life performance

After publishing the work we did with Shadow at SteamDolls, I was approached by
GąЪ ジ (gabryel.nyoki) who is an impressive musician and singer for a set of still shots from a life performance. Sounded like another great test of the L3 lights in a high stress environment of a live venue with 50 avi's on it.

Just like any good shoot, it does take some prep work to ensure the talent and the stage are set. I was very fortunate to have QueenOfNorway Alex offer the a stage and gave permission to both hunt down and remove stray lights and also give me rez privies (which i actually didn't use because of a technical glitch). I planted a couple careful lumipro balls in the audience as well as having each performer wear the full L3 face lights and projectors.

Gab chose to use his RL birthday for a private party (for which LUMIPro members were invited). There was about 50 in the audience and i had to admit i was quite pleased that i was able to shoot full ultra, 4x anti-aliasing, and DOF without crashing or unfortunate lag and 20 FPS. You'll also notice in the shots that Gab webcam projects his concern and this as my first experience shooting with a live video feed (three copies actually) without issues. I ran run HUD exclusively on Gab and another HUD on his guest performers.

Notice both the projection shadows on the stage as well as the well lit faces!

I did find one bug with radar of more than 12 people in range that i will update in 0.9.

Shots were using LUMIPro L3 on performers in Firestorm on ultra with Photoshop, FotoFusion for layout, and NIK Color FX for giving the shots a decent "pop" of color.

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Painted Love

~or~ Birds of a Feather

See Jessica's absolutely lovely version here!

What looks like body paint is lighting done with a single projector only - no windlight

Excellent use of the LUMIPro HUD Projection / Gobos. 

Don't know what our Gobos are? Read more here .

Pushing the limits with LUMIPro

As you might have noticed by 3 of the 9 bulbs in L3 projection lighting being spot lights, i have a certain special love for theater. I've personally shot a tremendous amount of live theater RL and the high contrast, pop in colors, and the challenge of capturing live photography has always been a love of mine.

With the revival of burlesque in SL, i've enjoyed going to many shows. I had a chance to see SteamDolls at Shadow's Gentleman's club recently and fell in love with the 6 dancers doing some really cool choreography with a great set, custom music, and special effects. I had a chance to meet Shadow Tarber, creative director and lead dancer for the show, and gave her a demo of L3 and asked if we could take a crack at shooting one show with performers wearing the L3 lights. She said yes.


With curtain at 6pm we met the performers at the 5pm call and had all the performers wear the L3 lights with both point lights and projectors. Lights were set to Rembrandt and projectors set to medium spot all with a very common violet hue used in live theater (the theater lighting pro i work with RL says they NEVER use a straight white light EVER on stage (ok there are expections i'm sure)).

I asked colleen Criss, LUMIPro's business manager and also partner with Toran in Babenco & Criss Machinima and Photography if they wanted to video shoot the performance while i shot stills. The results honestly was darn impressive.

This is pushing the limits of SL for live work. With Toran and I both having overclocked GPUs with multi-core CPUs working thier butts off with ultra settings with 6 performers, 20 in the audience, in high animation with 18 point lights, 6 projectors, full shadows, and me running DOF. I crashed once on DOF and Toran ran the entire show without a glitch.

Want to see SteamDolls live? Check out the SteamDolls show schedule by clicking here. The address of the theater is here.

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LUMIPro Grows Popular with the Machinima Community

(Be aware, this vid is NOT rated G and contains adult content.) 

The awesome creative talent on Second Life never stops amazing us here at LUMIPro, from photography to machinima, and we are pleased to be part of  both community's.  We get to meet some amazing people doing amazing things and watch how they create their brand of art using the L3 HUD. It's exciting everyday.

Nik Arlington, creative force behind Cheesecake Studio wow'd us with this video. She spent many days and sleepless nights working to get her lighting just right and told me she absolutely could not imagine not using her LUMIPro HUD. Something that we always appreciate hearing from our users!

Watch for this bright and shining machinimist ! I can't wait to see what she brings next.