PhotoStage
PhotoStage is a powerful photography toolkit especially designed for studio modelling, portrait and still life shooting in Second Life. PhotoStage gives you an extraordinarily fine control over background, lighting and effects, using a menu-, HUD- or chat-driven control system that lets you focus on your subject.
PhotoStage includes:
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A backdrop against which you can photograph your subject. You can adjust the colour, texture, brightness and glow settings on the backdrop, and you can choose between two sizes, 12 and 16 metres wide. 42 top-quality textures are included.
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A set of lights that you can position anywhere close to the backdrop. You can change light colour, intensity and other parameters.
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A set of effects generators capable of producing a wide range of visual effects, such as smoke, fog or snow. You can move these effects generators and adjust some parameters to control the appearance of the effects.
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A set of gaze points, which let your model to fix her gaze on them by alt-clicking so you can adjust her gaze direction and overall stance.
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The PhotoStand pose stand, including 43 modelling poses.
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A HUD for easy operation.
Lights, effects generators and gaze points feature intelligent positioning, meaning that they can sense where the model is and position them in relation to her at the click of a button.
PhotoStage lets you dump its current state into a “configuration”, which can be named, saved into a notecard and retrieved at any time to easily re-create your most used combinations of background, lights, effects and gaze points.
You can read the PhotoStage User’s Manual here. You can find out about PhotoStage pricing here.
PhotoStage is available from OnRez and SLExchange, as well as at the Ananke Media Systems demo site in Lady Vale.
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1. “Miss Payton”&hellip | 18 February 2008 at 9:44 pm
[...] can find out more about the amazing PhotoStage at the AMS website or by watching my “guided tour” video. Inworld, please visit our [...]
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Keri Reyes | 26 February 2008 at 6:48 pm
This is without a doubt one of the best systems I’ve purchased in Second Life. The menus and HUD are very user friendly and the manual answers almost any question you could have. The creator was also approachable, helpful and very patient. A technical issue after purchase was dealt with quickly and the system is now perfect for my needs. I highly recommend the company and the products.
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Beaz Kondor | 24 June 2008 at 5:13 pm
Is the Photostage and Hud Control box Transfer so that it might be purchased as a gift?
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Anna Tretiak | 24 June 2008 at 6:25 pm
Beaz: no, PhotoStage is copy, no-transfer. If you would like to give it as a gift, I suggest you buy it from OnRez (http://shop.onrez.com) or SLExchange (http://www.slexchange.com). If none of these online stores is convenient for you, please let us know by writing to ananke.media.systems@gmail.com and we will organise it for you.
– Anna
5. PhotoStage opens store at&hellip | 10 July 2008 at 6:52 pm
[...] display site in the new store at Metro Models. Here you can try out and purchase PhotoStage - the highly advanced photo studio especially designed for modelling and portrait photography in [...]
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gracewinnfield | 11 July 2008 at 6:49 pm
Does the stage allow me to add my own background textures? Can I use my current pose stand… if not does this one allow addition of poses? Does it rotate?, does it hide, go to next, back and rotate with text commands? How does it fare in the new windlight viewer?? How many prims is it? These are serious questions.. i am very interested. Thanks a ton!
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Serenity Mercier | 11 July 2008 at 11:58 pm
Grace:
Thanks for you interest in the PhotoStage. To answer your questions:
Yes, the PhotoStage does allow you to add your own background textures
Yes, you can use your current pose stand if you prefer. The PhotoStand does allow you to add your own poses, and it is also copy, so you can rez more than one stand and load different poses into each one (helpful if you have a lot of poses and don’t want to pile them all into one stand).
The PhotoStand has a simple to use, yet sophisticated rotation system that allows you to rotate in both directions by increments of 5, 30, and 90 degrees. The PhotoStand also has a Hide/Show toggle button, so you can make it appear or disappear as needed. The stand does allow you to cycle through your poses, moving backward or forward by one, five, ten or twenty poses at a time. The PhotoStand will operate with Chat (or text) commands.
The PhotoStage functions very effectively in the windlight viewer. Some fine-tuning and adjustments were made in the latest version to optimize the system for windlight. It comprises 7 prims (backdrop) + 1 prim (control box) + however many lights, effects generators or gaze points you might rez (up to 6 each for a total of 18 if you rezzed every single item - a relatively unlikely scenario unless you’re doing a big group shot). The PhotoStand has a total of 3 prims. So, altogether, if you rezzed absolutely everything, you’d be looking at a total of 29 prims. A more usual scenario would be around 16 to 17 prims: backdrop (7) control box (1) stand (3) three lights (3) two effects generators (2) and one gaze point (1).
I hope that answers all your questions.
Serenity
8. AMS announces exclusive p&hellip | 3 August 2008 at 9:17 pm
[...] The new Persona poses are included in PhotoStand, the powerful pose stand packaged with AMS PhotoStage, PhotoLite and PhotoTools [...]
9. Making Eyes: controlling &hellip | 11 August 2008 at 8:13 pm
[...] AMS PhotoStage and PhotoLite have some useful tools that will help solve this problem, allowing you to use gaze points effectively when doing self-portraits. Here’s how: [...]