I'm pretty good at photography on SL if ya ever would like help.

Thankyou.

the problem more comes from the quantity of the pictures I need to take. 20 shots all being exactly the same, with a minimal degree of eye movement. It's hard work, and uses all three screens. I have to be extremely careful not to move the camera, place prims to make the eyes of two avs lock onto - etc.

I used to do it with someone else - Kitty Catron, ( a great friend and beta tester) but it becomes next to impossible to co ordinate. These days I load up an alt and try to work through em.

hmm have you tried using a camera prim?

Meaning a prim with a script that sets the sitting avatar's camera to some values? Then you also need a secondary account, but at least you would not have to worry about the camera angle an position. as they would be fixed by the avatar sitting on it >_>

I wouldn't worry about the eyes too much, I helped Leo with the Fennec avatars he made, stood in one while he in the other and didnt move camera. I didn't care about the eyes, the pictures tend to be pretty small and no one really care about the eye direction :p as long as the rest of the body is in the right position lol

I should definetely try out how the head would work with my collie textures