Third class with Wicca Merlin at the GLANCE Model Academy. Today's topics: inventory organization and runway/posing. Inventory organization? PLEASE! I'm the most OCD guy I know when it comes to organization. I can probably name every item I have in my inventory from memory, and find it for you in less than 5 seconds. Runway and posing, however, have me TERRIFIED! As is blatantly obvious from my previous pictures, I have little to no photography experience in SL (or RL for that matter)...hence, no posing experience. Runway scares me even more, as there are SO MANY things that can go wrong during a fashion show (lag is a beast!). However, Wicca is a rockstar, so I'm sure she'll have me whipped into shape in no time. She gave me a lot of helpful tips on fighting lag during fashion shows, as well as some helpful pointers on improving SL performance overall.
At the end of class, Wicca announced that our next meeting would be used to style 4 outfits for my portfolio shoot: formal, casual, swimsuit, and headshot. I swear, you could probably hear the neurons firing as I ran through all the possibilites in my head, coming up with outfit ideas left and right! The last 3 don't worry me too much. I'll probably wear some casual stuff from Xplosion, my swimsuit will definitely be from Kobalt, and I'm absolutely wearing the Valeria set from Finesmith for my headshot. Formal, however, is not my forte. After stalking the blogosphere for ideas, I settled on four outfits (2 from Champagne, 2 from Violator), then sent out pics to several friends, asking them to choose their favorite. Below was my top pick, and the one that I thought was the most "me":
I can rock purple like no other, and I love the soft shimmer of the latex. However, most of my friends agreed it wasn't dressy enough, so I went with 2 of my original options from Champagne, plus an additional Champagne outfit. I also stopped by Essential Soul earlier today to pick up my X-Poser HUD (which I LOVE), and dropped by Body Talking to buy some poses. Below is a preview of one option for my formal pic, with my new favorite pose from the "RicoRacer" line at Body Talking. Thanks to Brendan Macarthur for the pic!
