A few tips I have picked up......

Working in Second Life, I have picked up a few tips regarding taking Photographs, so I am going to share a few with you.

In your preferences, under Graphics, go to Hardware options, and tick Anisoptropic Filtering and set Antialiasing to 4x, set your graphics for as high as it will go, if your computer can handle it, set it on Ultra, tick all the boxes in bump mapping, shaders etc.

In your Advanced menu (ctrl alt d to enable) click High rez snapshot to disk.

Ok! now you are initially set up!

Now, if you are out and about in world, play with your windlight settings to get just the right effect, move the sun, the moon, increase or decrease cloud cover, have a play around, save your settings if its one you like. If in a studio settings set your world to midnight so you can control all the lighting,from intensity to colour to create shade and tone.

I think probably above all else what is important in SL photography is the poses, whenever I get a pose stand, I immediately bin all the full perm freebie newbie rubbish poses in there, as they tend to be badly thought out and make your photos look cheap, with wierd arm or leg glitches, or distorting the midriff. If you can't afford to buy poses, most stores have free poses to pick up as a taster, or massive sales every so often.