Orange Island Photo Week

This caught my eye, partly because I'm an Orange customer in RL...

Orange are running a photo week on their island this week. Sounds interesting.

Blurred backgrounds in images

There's been a little thread of discussion on the Second Life machinima mailing list about whether it is possible to take images with soft or out of focus backgrounds in Second Life. info@rufilm.de suggested a simple approach, which I've simplified further as follows:

• Take a snapshot of the background you want.
• Blur it using your favorite graphics package.
• Upload it to Second Life and place it on a large prim.
• Stand your avatar in-front of the prim and take your snapshot.

Neat!

Here's a couple of examples, using a background image taken on Nagaya, a nice little Japanese community.