Photography in a virtual world

[Mista Gav]

I've been following this mod for GTA4 on Facebook for a while now and even though he shows some example shots of the current stages he is in, I think they are pretty fantastic as photos.

I've seen plenty of other people who proclaim to be photographers/artists using virtual worlds and video games to make their photographs. It's an idea I had myself as I think you can get some good results from it but I was wondering what others thought on the matter. Is it ok to do something like this or would there be too many copyright/moral issues with it...morally I mean is the work diminished because of the fact it wasn't taken in the real world?

Could have worded that out better...

Example photo