1K! Time to Relax and Celebrate!

I have had my first 1K viewed image when Sunset06 hit the magical number of 1,000 views. Wow.

I want to thank everyone that checked it out.

In the past few weeks I have been amazed at the numbers of people coming to look at my work.

Currently I have...

Seven images with 500-599 views

Nine images with 600-699 views

Four images with 700-799 views

Two images with 800-899 views

One image with over 1,000 views.

To celebrate this passing of a milestone, I thought I would share with everyone the evolution of my most currently favoured image, How to Relax After the Party. (Currently at 42 favs)

In creating the image I had started out with the pose and decided that I wanted to shoot it on a black background. A quickly made wall half box became my portable studio by setting the walls and floor to black, and then I shot the pose.

This shot seemed a little barren, and I knew that it needed more. I had the champagne glass from a previous shoot where I had tried it and the abandoned the idea, but adding it did start to give life to the situation.

With something more needed I decided to add the tablet to make it look like Terri had been surfing the web. This is what I call the R16-Rated version of the shot.

The final touches came with making the image a lot more suggestive. As the FLECHA Sculpted and mesh tablet is full perms and came with several textures, I was able to modify one of the textures to edit a webpage with Doki's image, Self Satisfaction, on to it and then add it to the tablet.

The UD Rabbit Vibrator was a final touch that just balanced the final image out, and added totally to the suggestive nature of it to lead the viewer in a direction of exactly what Terri had been doing to relax.

<3 Terri

Doing Duos

I have been trying to get a few more Duo pictures done recently. So far there have been the Music Box with Adele, Volleyball with Partee, Back to the Future with Racheal, and Last Shoot with Dokie. I am trying to get a few more sorted out and well hopefully post when I do. :)

I thought I'd write a little more about doing these because, other than the Music Box, each shoot had it difficulties.

Music Box

I love working with Adele, she is such a sweetheart. This shoot when with few hitches. We did it at the great Image Essentials Photo Studio. Adele came over, we did the poses, took to the shots and it was done. I think I could have done them better knowing more as I do now, but I still like these. They needed a touch of work post shot, but not much.

Volleyball

I had this one well and truly in my head before starting it, and having found the two perfect poses and the perfect setting, I was ready. Only trouble, the location, Strofades, was no scrip and no rez, and the afraid pose that Partee had was only usable as an no modify pose ball. Argggh. In the end we shot the picture on a different sim, TT - Sports, and used a screen behind us so I could shoot the original sim's background, which was then edited in behind us making it appear that we were on the original court. :)

Back to The Future

This was almost a spur of the moment shoot idea created by finding a cheap time machine DeLorean DMC-12 on the marketplace as Racheal Rexen and I chatted about what to shoot. Coupled with a poster from Back to the Future II, we had a shot. The Poses were created ourselves, Racheal using the Animare Pose & Animation System and me using the QAvimator program. Once we had the poses sorted we had to get the set up right, and I needed to add my pose to a pose ball, resulting in the weirdest reaction I have ever seen in SL, my whole upper body rotating about my torso where the ball was located. Finally changing scripts I was able to get a better and more stable ball, and we did the shoot at Mew's Place, Woohoo.

Last Shoot

I was greatly privileged to be the last person that Doki Doobie did a shoot for and with. Almost my twin in the industry, I was captivated by this woman from the first time I saw her work, and wanted to pose with her for a long time. That we managed it in her last hour in Second Life was a thrill and I loved working with her. She'll be greatly missed. Sharp eyed people might have noticed that these images weren't the first I had with Doki, when I snuck one of my favourites of her into another image recently. We started the shoot at Skye Falls, which is an absolutely stunning beach island, but after a crash, we had to finish up back at Porn*Stars Plaza Beach. After I has taken the great shot of us holding hands against the sunset I snapped a few more at different angles just to see how they went. It was looking through them afterwards that I realised that one of the more casual shots was the one I was going to use, it just had so much emotion in it, Terri reaching out to Doki in a vain attempt to get her to remain as Doki looks back at the viewer her eyes and face telling the story of her leaving .It was a great pleasure to work with her, a d she'll be sadly missed by us all.

Sunsets

There is something about sunsets, the way that the light shatters into a million different oranges, yellows and reds. I think that they bring out the beauty in everything, and I hope you agree in this selection from my new album. See all of my sunset images in my Sunsets Album on Flickr.

<3 Terri