One True Moment

One True Moment, originally uploaded by Verde O.

TPI Faculty Head, Kee Llewellyn is opening her show, Saturday Jan 10th at 8 AM SLT. Please join us to see Kee’s latest photographic creations and to hear two wonderful and talented poets, Radegund Bracken and Aianna Oh. Both poets also posed for Kee so you will see their portraits as you hear the work of their hearts, minds and souls in your ears.

The Photo Institute has a new home!

The Photo Institute – Sunset, originally uploaded by Verde O.

Along with our new classes about photographic lighting and portraits, we have a new sim and a new alliance. The Photo Institute is proud to announce a formal partnership with Insight Virtual College (IVC)! TPI has moved into the homestead sim called “The Photo Institute” east of the IVC campus.

We still have Kee’s robot and ships but the campus has been reimagined as a combination of modern and traditional structures with a beautiful garden.

Come check it out! SLURL

Winter Classes Start in December!

Many classes in the Winter semester have already been filled to capacity, others have only a few seats left.

Due to demand we have ADDED dates for Introduction to Portrait Photography and Portrait Photography Workshop, but these classes are already half full!

Winter Semester Schedule

To registering for a class:
Send a notecard (not an IM) to Kee Llewellyn. Just include your name and the class or classes you want to take and the date you want to take them.

Tuition Information

Enniv Zarf performs at TPI TODAY

Enniv Zarf, originally uploaded by Verde O.

Come hear the masterful Enniv Zarf perform at The Photo Institute at 11:30 SLT today. We are celebrating the opening of a new exhibit in the Gallery: Fashion Photography by TPI Faculty.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vehicle/70/207/22

TPI Faculty Show Opening – Nov 1

TPI Faculty Show Ad, originally uploaded by Verde O.

Come meet the faculty of TPI, see some of their works, listen to the inspired piano compositions by Enniv Zarf, and tour the school.

Ad by Kee Llewellyn

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vehicle/70/207/22

Museum of SL Photography Opening Gala

The Museum of SL Photography is having its Opening Gala tonight 6 – 8 pm SLT. Come meet the great photographers featured in the museum including TPI’s faculty members, Kee and Trin.

The museum will be inducting these great SL artists into their permanent collection:
Callipygian Christensen
Cienega Soon
Kee Llewellyn
Keith Extraordinaire
Monroe Snook
Trinidad Anatine

Stay for the music and dancing afterwards. Dress is “cocktail elegant.”

Hope to see you there!
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fashionista/204/83/21

TPI Faculty Works Exhibited in Museum

Museum of SL Photography
Originally uploaded by Verde O

Museum of SL Photography – Inside
Originally uploaded by Verde O

The Museum of SL Photography, which just opened in October, is dedicated to reaching people who may not be familiar with SL Photography. The Curator, Mariposa Upshaw, chooses works so that the artists can have the recognition and exposure they deserve. Among the artist chosen for the inaugural exhibit are TPI’s faculty members, Kee Llewellyn and Trinidad Anatine

Visit the Museum of SL Photography slurl.com/secondlife/Fashionista/204/83/21

Winter Semester Starting Soon

We are currently in the planning stages for the new semester. We should be releasing the course schedule by the first week of November. Some classes that will be on the schedule are:

P-101 Beginning SL photography
W-101 Introduction to Windlight

Other classes will be added.

Introduction to Windlight starts tonight

Windlight is a photographer’s dream to some and a huge challenge to others. If you would like to learn how to use windlight to your advantage as a photographer, then this is the class for you.

From the course catalog:

This class will introduce the student to The Windlight menus and controls and provide examples of how they can be applied to create an array of atmospheric effects in Second Life. Students will be asked to create a homework assignment which will be reviewed and critiqued during the second class.

Instructor: Kee Llewellyn
Class Time: Two (2) 1-hour sessions, Fridays, September 19 and 26, 7pm SLT

You can also get information about using windlight and sites where you can download windlight settings that other photographers (like Torley Linden and AM Radio) have created in TPI’s Library, just off the classroom.

See you tonight!

Fall Semester Starts TODAY!

There are still some seats available for “Essentials of Critique” offered tonight at 7 pm SLT. This is a required prerequisite for many of the more advanced SL photography classes so try take it as soon as you can.

G-101 Essentials of Critique – getting beyond “I like it”
Instructor: Kee Llewellyn
Class Time: 1 hour, Tuesday, September 9, 7pm SLT
Critique is one of the most important skills any artist will ever learn. The skills of observation, analysis and expression not only allow you to develop and express a useful opinion about other people’s work, they also give you invaluable tools for evaluating and improving your own work. The value to the artist of competent and trusted critique cannot be overstated. Class will include review of various works and a discussion of the ways in which they might be critiqued. Students are encouraged, but not required, to bring examples of their work to be reviewed and critiqued during this class. Please make sure any work submitted for review is full perms and given to the instructor prior to the start of class.