I participated in my first Photohunt last night. A Photohunt is a venture where a group is given a location (or, in the case of last night, a selection of locations) and given 60 minutes to bring back their best snapshot from that location. No photo manipulation, just the 4:3 aspect snapshot you took, so the hunt challenges your in-world photography skills, not your Photoshop skills.
My entry for this week was a shot from underwater looking up at buildings in Creeve Town. I had never visited Creeve Town, and it’s a pretty amazing spot. Very dark and moody at default lighting, with tremendous use of phantom megaprims to make some astonishing, huge interlaced arches. If you haven’t been, it’s worth a visit.
Before the end of the hour, you return to the Virtual Artist Alliance and place your entry on the board, and the participants and spectators vote on the winner of the week. Cyanide Seelowe ran last night’s hunt, and I got a quick snapshot of her with the entries in the Photohunt Gallery.
The Photohunt was a lot of fun, and the group was welcoming and friendly. I’ll have to do it again when the hunts start back up in January, after the holidays.
If you’d like to join in the fun, Photohunts are held at 6:00 pm SLT on Wednesdays, with the starting point at the Virtual Artist Alliance in Chiaksan. The next hunt is scheduled for January 7. Rules and a FAQ are available on their wiki.
