Mike & Mia

Two very good friends of mine, Mike & Mia, enjoying each other a lot. Neither of them is particularly shy about being caught on camera, either. Completely shameless, both of them.

One of the challenges of photography in Second Life is that it's much like taking real life "in the moment" snapshots. You have very little control other than lighting settings and some simple effects available in the viewer. Other people - their skin, their shape, their expressions, what they're doing - are entirely outside your control.

By comparison, Daz Studio or Poser or other 3D rendering systems give you complete control over everything - skin, body, facial expressions, lighting, background, props, the works.

All this to explain why in some of my photos, people appear to be very blase about sex, because they have neutral expressions. Some sex furniture in SL includes facial expressions, some doesn't. Some people have facial expression controllers, some don't. For me, this is part of the charm of Second Life photography - I have to work with what I find and I can't always get exactly what I want.