Why virtual portraits may actually be easier to describe than scenery images
Dorenas World, from Streams at els Mussols
Most of the image descriptions here will be less massive than on my main channel; CW: long (over 2,300 characters), Fediverse meta, alt-text meta, image description meta
One thing that will usually be nice about the portrait pictures I'm going to post here on (streams) is that the image descriptions won't be
quite as excessive as my other image descriptions.
They will still be longer than what anyone else in the Fediverse writes, yes. But most of the time, I won't have any surroundings to describe, save for a blank white background. @
Juno Rowland has been making most of her outfit pictures in a photo studio instead of out in the open for quite a while now. There will be no landscape to describe, no buildings, no ground texture, no sky, nothing. This will also simplify the description of the lighting: It's artificial plus ambient. No Sun involved because Juno's preferred photo studio is indoor.
It's also convenient that I won't have any mimics to describe. An avatar is always expressionless unless either a certain facial expression has been permanently adjusted into the shape, or an expression is created by manually (or sometimes automatically) playing an animation.
Lastly, I probably won't have to write entirely new image descriptions for each of Juno's portraits. I only have to write one, and I can edit it for later pictures. No need to re-write the explanation of OpenSim, mesh and the structure of OpenSim avatars as well as Juno's general description from scratch everytime. This, however, means that those who have seen portrait pictures of her and read the image descriptions before will get bored because they'll always be largely the same.
The same will of course apply to the shorter and purely visual descriptions that will go into the alt-text of each image. For those who don't know: I always put the full, detailed descriptions into the post text body, right underneath the images if whatever you use in the Fediverse supports in-line images. That's because Mastodon, Misskey and their respective forks cut longer alt-text off at the 1,500-character mark as far as I know. And my long image descriptions are usually much, much, much longer than 1,500 characters.
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