DSS #97 (The eyes have it!) :D

Jenn

"Don't it make my brown eyes..."

Kinkajou

She has gorgeous eyes! They do look a little out of focus, though. If you can get her to pose for you again, really try nailing the focus on the eyes. Also, it looks like flash might have been used... see if you can get her near window light instead. Wonderful subject for this challenge

Jenn

Kinkajou wrote: »

She has gorgeous eyes! They do look a little out of focus, though. If you can get her to pose for you again, really try nailing the focus on the eyes. Also, it looks like flash might have been used... see if you can get her near window light instead. Wonderful subject for this challenge

hmmmm The focus looks fine to me as far as I can tell ...Not sure what you're seeing that is not in focus? Hows this... Also, the light is disfused bounced light...

Jenn

Now that I've been looking at this one next to the other one I can see what you were talking about. This one looks better to me.

PedalGirl

I agree that it seems just a tad out of focus... or rather the eyes aren't as sharp as they could be. Also, to me... the eyes look strange... there is practically no detail in them which probably also gives off the illusion of being out of focus.

Jenn

PedalGirl wrote: »

I agree that it seems just a tad out of focus... or rather the eyes aren't as sharp as they could be. Also, to me... the eyes look strange... there is practically no detail in them which probably also gives off the illusion of being out of focus.

That's as good as it gets, I think, because that's what her eyes really look like. They are almost a solid dark brown and you can barely see her pupils in the center if at all! It was difficult to get them to show any detail at all, but the reflected light helped with that some. Most of the time I can't even see her pupils because her irises are so dark dark brown ... some days I swear her eyes are black. It's my 3yr old granddaughter, btw.

I just went to look at all of her other photos, and her eyes are even darker in those with no kind of iris detail at all. Her eyes are nearly black w/o a light on them. My second image shows just a bit of the brown dividing between her pupil, but that's the only time I've actually seen her pupils this clearly.

Jenn

ONE more try .. I'm having a heck of a time getting her irises and pupils correct because I'm editing via 2 different computers and neither monitor looks like the other one.

The brown iris is dark brown with a black center and it's in focus on my laptop monitor. How's it look on other monitors if you guys don't mind me bugging you? I really want to get her eyes right.

Troy Raymond

I believe the eyes are in focus, but they are milky in general. The left eye has a slight white reflection that almost looks like a hair. Most of the time eyes are detailed/enhanced, but I feel you are simply trying to keep them as real as you actually see them.

I like the second edit better than the last.

Jenn

Troy Raymond wrote: »

I believe the eyes are in focus, but they are milky in general. The left eye has a slight white reflection that almost looks like a hair. Most of the time eyes are detailed/enhanced, but I feel you are simply trying to keep them as real as you actually see them.

I like the second edit better than the last.

You like the second edit better? I have 2 images I uploaded to the challenge page... the first one I marked delete.. the second one is the same one you said you like better here... So that one should stay in the challenge gallery?

hmm .. her eyes are reflecting something in the room... I can remove it .. would that be better?

Jenn

I'm torn between these two... which one is better?

#4



#5 (this is a photo I haven't edited before, so it's new)

dnie

#4... I focus more on her eyes in that one.
You have come so far since that first picture you entered of this beautiful little girl. I love these, and she has beautiful eyes.

Jenn

dnie wrote: »

#4... I focus more on her eyes in that one.
You have come so far since that first picture you entered of this beautiful little girl. I love these, and she has beautiful eyes.

Thanks Donna... I should have waited to upload my entry, but I thought I had the editing done. Between my laptop and my work pc, the monitor colors are very different. If I lean my laptop monitor at a certain angle it's perfect color, but if the angle is off by just a little bit the color is too. I should have checked it on my work monitor before I uploaded it.

You vote for #4 .. I'll wait and see if I get more people leaning that way before I upload a final image to the gallery.

Jenn

ok... sorry .. one more try.. I figured out a way to enhance the eyes and I'm kind of excited about it...

Which one is better?

#5 Enhanced:


or

#4 Not Enhanced:

dnie

My son and I agreed, enhanced.
Looks good, you can see the color and distraction between pupil and iris without them looking blah as before... But I like both really. I get the fact that her eyes are soooo deeply brown that you don't see the difference.

Jenn

dnie wrote: »

My son and I agreed, enhanced.
Looks good, you can see the color and distraction between pupil and iris without them looking blah as before... But I like both really. I get the fact that her eyes are soooo deeply brown that you don't see the difference.

Thanks Donna! I don't think I am going to try any more of these. This is the best one of all of them, I think, anyway.