Good girl goes bad…

Ok I’ll admit that I saw the GI Joe movie this weekend and for a movie based off of an 80’s cartoon, based off of a toy line it was a pretty good flick. I’ll also admit that I was rather taken by Sienna Miller as Baroness so when I got home I just had to squeeze into my catsuit and head off and get into some trouble

I headed over to my latest photo stalking grounds of SICK (SICK3 this time) and found a spot that gave me the look I wanted, well it was my second choice I couldn’t figure out how to make my first choice work since all the places to stand were phantom but I’ll keep that spot in mind for something else.

Anywho, as I started setting up the shot I was already thinking about post work on it, and decided to do something I hadn’t tried before (well I had played with it but was still figuring it out). I decided that I was going to play with the depth of field, using the Lens blur in Photoshop, so I made sure to save a depth shot of each setup to my hard drive along with the regular shots.

Here’s the shot as I took it:

and here is the depth map for that shot:

I wasn’t sure the look was that noticeably different, but then I put them side by side and you can really see the effect.

There is some potential with this technique and I’m going to explore it a bit more. I also want to figure out the best was to let objects in the foreground go out of focus too for a much more realistic depth of field effect.

[If people are interested in the technique I could go into some depth about my process in another post]

Pose play

Smoke’m if you got them…

• Pose: [Lyndz-Matic] Smoke Break
• Skin: BEBAE Coral *Cara Group Gift
• Hair: (CS) Moderno Devyn Hair
• Jacket: COCO Jacket and Shirt
• Pants: League Woodstock Jeans Ice Blue
• Boots: Tesla Kensington Boots
• Glasses: Role Optic Clara
• Cigarette: [E3D] Diorama Pink Death
• Location: S.I.C. 49

A night in neo Kowloon

• Pose: [Lyndz-Matic] ANTM 8.5
• Skin: Redgrave Leona 03 Deep Tan
• Hair: T&S Hair Ashley
• Hat: [LeLutka] Audrey Hat
• Glasses: FNKY! Luna Glasses
• Jacket: +grasp+ Leather Jacket women’s
• Dress: [LeLutka] QI dess Green
• Boots: J’s Thigh High Boots
• Location: Kowloon

New New New

New blog Lyndz-Matic, where I will keep you all up to date with what’s going on with the poses and all that stuff at the shop.

New Poses, I have 15 new poses that are out, they aren’t at the main shop at Thistle yet. They are at the …

New shop at Elliot on the Starlust sims.

So here we are… a new beginning with a focused vision.

99 plus1

…that’s what I got when I counted poses in the shop last night. 99 individual poses and 1 two person poseball set… oh and a Toaster.

Is that a lot? Is it enough to really think that I am in the pose business? Sure I need more group poses, maybe 5? 10? But then again there are shops that just sell individual poses so why should I have to have a certain number of poses to consider my shop a business. I mean I devote time to making poses and I put them out for sale so really that is a business right?

But what about all the other stuff that it takes to make a business: blogs, promotion, advertising, socializing. I’ve been very lax on that. Heck I have had a stand alone store since May? and have I mentioned it, Ok I haven’t made many blog posts lately, but I think that should have been blog worthy. Also 99 poses plus the two person pose and I have only posted photos of maybe a third of them. That is the thing about poses, while you have to take pictures of your finished build build before you box it up and set it for sale. Poses, well, you just drop in the pose vendor. Because everyone needs to see how they work on them. Sure I would do them when I would sell pose sets but then I got hung up on picking the right outfit for the pose shoot, but now I realized I should just wear something that doesn’t block the pose. no skirts or big attachments, let the fashion bloggers pick their outfits

So in the effort to start running a business I have taken a few steps and from some of them I have been pleased with the results.

1. 1 I have secured the lyndzmatic.wordpress.com blog and will start posting stuff about Lyndz-Matic updates there. This blog will continue to be random ramblings.
2. 2 I have started sending out poses to bloggers and people who’s photos I like on flickr (if you join the [Lyndz-Matic] flickr group I’ll send you some I’m working on now and then)
3. 3 I am working on ads to run in a fashion magazine and on websites

Will it help get my name out there?

It already has. I was invited to open a shop on the new Starlust Elliot sim Yay

So I am making progress.

Who was I thinking about?….

It’s been awhile since I have written anything here so I though I would ease back into it with a meme that has been running around. I saw it over on Lanna’s blog and GoSpeed’s blog but it originates with Zoe Connolly.

So the question is Lyndzay Meili… “Who influenced your avatar?”

Hmmm That is a good question. I mean I have been using poser for many years now and am pretty familiar with pushing sliders around to make meshes look like other things, so I think I could have made her look like anyone I wanted to withe enough work or gone to a shape maker if I so chose. I guess the question on some level goes deeper than the mesh that Second Life gives use to play with. It asks what characteristic do we see in ourselves that we want to bring into our virtual life and what characteristics that we feel are lacking in our real life, or what ones in other people both real and fictional, do we want to give to our avatar.

As I explored the grid I found that I enjoyed dancing, no not the grinding on a pole for lindens though that can be fun too, I mean the just break into dance for dance’s sake It was fun and I liked watching the movements. So I knew that she would have a dancer build, tall with long legs and not voluptuous, but not androgynous. So as I started adjusting things I found that I was drawn to the look of a few famous people and some close friends and watched Lyndzay take shape and inhabit the grid and my mind.

The major influences on my appearance was Tea Leoni. I remember the first time I saw her in that Fox show “Flying Blind” and she was all Bohemian flaky gorgeous and full of adventure then later on “The Naked Truth” as Norah Wilde she showed a bit more style. The thing I liked most about her was that she looked comfortable and confidant in pearls and a fancy dress but equally comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt. Yes she had style and fabulously good looks but on top of it all she was funny and sarcastic (qualities that I have been know from time to time possess, ok sarcasm I have with me almost 24-7). While in some of her roles Tea does have red hair, I’ll admit that my red hair( when I wear it) is an homage to one of my best friends in RL who’s red hair I have always liked.

Another person who influenced the look of my avatar was Jill Hennessy, more of the Law & Order years than the Crossing Jordan years (she looked a little to rough for me in that role, just rolled out of bed or something) It was another case of looking very put together as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid but in this case it was always professionalism and a sense of strength able to hold her own in the world. Though I always wish she did more with her hair.

Well those are two of the people who influenced my avatar. As I implied there were also some close RL friends who played a part in the look and personality of Lyndz but I think I’ll keep those to myself