Got blinkers?
Ugh - my oldest son is a notorious "blinker" :lol3 he cannot for the life of him keep his eyes open for one lousy, stinkin' photograph!! :pissed
So sometimes - big secret - it's not all about "fine art" or "fine portraiture," it's about "the family photo album" and a photo destined for a 4x6 print for that purpose. And ever more important when "we the photographer" get to be in the shot, eh :rolleyes
With digital, take a bunch of shots (if the darn kids would cooperate :lol3 ). And you can always photoshop the good eyes in to the best shot that has "a blinker" in it. Here's how, quick and dirty (yeah, there are many ways to do it, this is just one!):
Select, using the lasso tool, the good eye (or eyes, but you may have to do it in two steps):
Once you have the eye selected, COPY the selection and PASTE it on your "good" photo. Use the Move Tool and drag the "good eye" into position:
Now this "good eye" is on a new layer (automagically). Add a layer mask and then use a soft brush, make sure black is the foreground color, click on the layer mask icon in the layers palette, and then start painting away the parts of the "good eye" you don't want. Use 100% opacity (look up top in the tool bar palette) at first, then as you near closer the to part you want to keep, lower the opacity (just practice, you'll quickly get the hang of where to set the opacity).
The area in red is what I "painted away" with my soft brush and layer mask.
And in the end, you get a reasonable result suitable for burial in the family photo album:
PS: The observant among you may notice that the unretouched shot exhibits some nuclear-red in the faces. We've been discusing that here. And there's also some great stuff in our SmugBlogs and also in The SmugMug Help Pages.
Enjoy (eye-blinker) photography,
So sometimes - big secret - it's not all about "fine art" or "fine portraiture," it's about "the family photo album" and a photo destined for a 4x6 print for that purpose. And ever more important when "we the photographer" get to be in the shot, eh :rolleyes
With digital, take a bunch of shots (if the darn kids would cooperate :lol3 ). And you can always photoshop the good eyes in to the best shot that has "a blinker" in it. Here's how, quick and dirty (yeah, there are many ways to do it, this is just one!):
Select, using the lasso tool, the good eye (or eyes, but you may have to do it in two steps):
Once you have the eye selected, COPY the selection and PASTE it on your "good" photo. Use the Move Tool and drag the "good eye" into position:
Now this "good eye" is on a new layer (automagically). Add a layer mask and then use a soft brush, make sure black is the foreground color, click on the layer mask icon in the layers palette, and then start painting away the parts of the "good eye" you don't want. Use 100% opacity (look up top in the tool bar palette) at first, then as you near closer the to part you want to keep, lower the opacity (just practice, you'll quickly get the hang of where to set the opacity).
The area in red is what I "painted away" with my soft brush and layer mask.
And in the end, you get a reasonable result suitable for burial in the family photo album:
PS: The observant among you may notice that the unretouched shot exhibits some nuclear-red in the faces. We've been discusing that here. And there's also some great stuff in our SmugBlogs and also in The SmugMug Help Pages.
Enjoy (eye-blinker) photography,
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Now that's an interesting idea!
Isn't it strange how you can fire off 500 shots of one person and not get a single blink-- yet another person will blink half (or more) the time? I once had someone blink at the sound of the AF focus confirmation beep. "Beep"-blink-shutter click... that was a long shoot!
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