Headshot Series
There’s not much to say here. This series is all about the faces of our avatars and how they look, how we adorn them with personal touches, our eyes, noses, lips, facial structure and shit. I like doing headshots because they’re easy in a sense that there’s not much conceptualization involved, once you have your initial vision or mental prototype the rest will…actually that’s it.
My treatment for these headshots involve a lot of edge smoothening, sharpening what needs to be sharpened (mostly for guys) , softening what needs to be softened (mostly for girls), balancing saturation for a moody/dramatic effect and ofcourse the ever elegant vignette which serves as the cherry on top of this whole pixel sundae. All in all it takes around 25-40 minutes to process one photo.
I don’t charge zilch for this (although tips are welcome & appreciated lol), anyone can IM me and we can arrange something out with regards to time of shooting ; I’m usually on from 12 PM to 4 PM SLT. I suggest keeping things it as minimal as possible, you can wear some jewelry (no bling pls or gtfo) but nothing too WTF-ish as to not distract the focus from your face. You can take them on from my flickr and upload them to yours just link it back on the description, you can also upload them in-world for whatever purposes, oh what the hell do whatever you want with them.
Above are some of the shots I’ve completed, click on the photo to go to the flickr page.
Featured above are : Krez, Samara, Severine, Esme, Sawyer, Brooke, Bakersfield, and Ally.








October 20, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I clicked on your name from SCD. Your 100 avatars and these headshots are great.
I’m trying to explain to coworkers that SL avatars don’t look as ghetto as they seem on SecondLife.com and that customization in game can turn you into anyone. I’m definitely going to link them to your flickr.
October 21, 2008 at 5:06 am
Hahahahah, ghetto!!! I agree, we get misrepresented by those huge-thighs and roids necks. There’s definitely countless possibilities in how you can make your avatar look in SL if you have the patience and you know where to look.
Thanks Noam!
October 22, 2008 at 5:39 am
These are gorgeous. I’m so impressed. I can’t stop staring. Beautiful work.
October 22, 2008 at 7:03 pm
These look fantastic! Great work! =)
October 25, 2008 at 5:05 am
Thanks Kota & Prad, this thing is my baby.
October 26, 2008 at 1:24 am
OMG! You used my head shot! I feel soooo special. LOL! These turned out awesome home fry! You know me I’ll be your guinea pig for anything within reason.
October 28, 2008 at 8:52 am
O RLY? anything? hahaha.
<3
November 5, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I’ve read everything until this article and I’m even more glad to have met you yesterday night! You seems to be a very good guy, nice and funny! What you do is definitively stunning! Hope to see you soon on SL!
) See ya! Xo xo <3
November 7, 2008 at 9:15 pm
wow! these are gorgeous, I definitely want to IM you !
November 12, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Gorgeous and will IM you ASAP!
November 20, 2008 at 2:57 am
ME TOOO! AWESOME WORK!
November 25, 2008 at 12:48 pm
*offers himself if you need him*
Great work, James!
November 28, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Truely beautiful, and i would be happy/proud to be included James =)
January 9, 2009 at 2:24 am
Hi! I never asked to be included in your headshot series, but now that you finished it I kind of took the idea and made it my own. You can click on my name here and see what I mean… It’s not really posted anywhere. I just thought you’d like to see. For some reason.
January 21, 2009 at 9:19 pm
eek these are fab.
very unique. i’m sure there’s a long list of people waiting to get theirs done. hehe or else i’d IM you too.
i shall stop stalking you now. byes
April 15, 2009 at 11:29 am
This is quite a hot information. I think I’ll share it on Digg.