Also, the glasses have to go for real as the old maid library lady look isn’t real appealing, plus the model is built like a 12 yr old boy. Where are all the hotties at?

If I’d have been able to attend, that percentage would have gone down a fair bit. I’m drop dead gorgeous IRL as I am in SL. Enough to counter at least ten overweight nerds.

Little thing about photography in SL in general, not specifically these pictures.
Why have only so VERY LITTLE people heard the rumor that PROPER LIGHTING is important in photography?

Some rumors are true, you know.

Little background and photoshop for light retouching wouldn’t hurt either.

In any case, nice AV, little heavy on the makeup tho. Subtle is the key word.

Well thats me and how i se it.

As a photographer, I think I tend to look at the nude vs. clothed issue a little differently than the people that have commented here. I have had the privilege of meeting Marilyn Murphy once and she took the time to show me “old-school” techniques that I have readily incorporated into my shooting style. Although Marilyn’s finished products are very different than mine; she’s a photography purist allowing very little editing other than cropping, I shoot with the total arsenal of Photoshop techniques in mind. Personally as a photographer, I am not big on lingerie, swimwear nor nude photography. Not for some ethical or high minded belief, but for a more selfish reason, with those shoots, that’s a lot a skin to worry about during the editing process.

If the numbers that Taylor quotes are accurate, that’s a mind boggling string of Post 6 pages. A SL month seems like a RL year and with that in mind, 2 ½ years of anything in SL, may be the same as 30 years in RL. I can understand the resistance to change, especially to anything with that type of longevity. I would liken that to the New York Times suddenly changing to a full color front page…blasphemous!

As I let this swirl around in my melon a little bit, I came to a reason for the changes that makes sense, at least to me. Making clothing optional makes the job of a photographer extremely easier. I have to laugh when I think of a conversation I would have to have with a suitable model, if I was the photographer for this page.

“You look great, I would love if you would pose for me for Post 6”

“This will be published in the Herald, and will be in Google World for the foreseeable future”

“You will provide your own wardrobe”

“There may be some very unpleasant things said about you by some very awful people”

“ I will need three photos, one clothed, one topless and one nude”

And if she was still there…

“And by the way, I won’t be able to pay you anything”

As a photographer that has photographed over 200 models, the actual photo shoot would be quick and producing three photos with minimal editing would be even quicker. But securing models under these conditions may have been the hardest part of Marilyn’s job.

I hope that I am wrong and this was not the reasoning for the changes to this long-standing page. I hope the changes were not based on expediency, but rather a sincere attempt to measurably improve the page and add to it’s legacy. I am not quite sure I would have accepted this assignment, if I were offered. However, I would have certainly would have preserved the tradition if I had.

To Justine, hang in there and continue to do good work.

To Taylor, continue the resistance, perhaps you and Justine can meet somewhere in the middle. If not, perhaps you may want to start your own page?

To Marilyn, I am waiting for my next lesson, IM me anytime.

And finally to the Herald, someone from the Herald should comment and set the who, what & why. To leave your photographer hanging out there, under these conditions is wrong.

Some think that near nudity is actually sexier than full nudity. But fashionistas do nudity all the time My av’s been seen nekkid by who knows how many people.

Chav Paderborn: “Why is it called Post Six anyway?”

Theres a tradition in the UK tabloids of a cheesecake photo on page three That’s the inspiration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Three_girl