NMC Campus Observer

SL Composed in RL

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Apr 18, 2007 04:12pm

Laptop View of Red an {orchestra} Performance

Originally uploaded by NMC Second Life.

I take a lot of photos in Second Life using the built in Snapshot tools in Second Life, but thanks to Phil Long at MIT, we got a great set of images that pull back a little. These photos remind us that Second Life is but a window from where we live.

This photos were taken with room light with a slower exposure (a flash would blast out the screen) and were done during last week’s Red an {orchestra}’s visit to NMC Campus for a live performance. We get a sense of some austure New England furniture (?), a remote control so an unspecified device, and on the right, just the hint of a beverage that we cannot identify. A framed photo? painting is on the wall, but we do not know what it is

Doesn’t it beg a story to be written? What is going on in this room? Was there a meal previously on the table? Who’s room is this? Who else lives here?

Good photography often is about framing and composition, and just by pulling back, or rethinking the photo shooting itself, Phil created some very evocative photos!

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