A photo composition for an album

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She had some beautiful eyes, kind of green, don't know, the thing is that I wanted to do a photo composition with her eyes as a reflective close-up, the reflection was intended for the eyes, the reflection of clocks, but I think I'm not achieving this, because it looks like the whole clock is the eye, not a reflection of it, but I wasn't happy with any blending modes nor with the opacity. Don't know what to do, help please
I know many people here don't like this kind of work, alterating photos is bad, hahaha, I don't like it, but the conceptual work required it, so, let me know what you think, Thank you



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Byron M.

Bakat

This is the kind of thing I really groove on.

If you are wanting to get it to look like the reflection is in her eyes, then I would make the clock faces smaller, possible eliptically distorted and less opaque.

Just some thoughts.

Good luck, sounds like a great project!
Kat

Skippy

B:// wrote:

She had some beautiful eyes, kind of green, don't know, the thing is that with a friend wanted to do a photo composition with her eyes as a close-up, and we wanted to reflect clocks in her eyes, but I think I'm not achieving this, because it looks like the whole clock is the eye, not a reflection of it, but I didn't liked any blending modes and either the use of the opacity, don't know what to do, help please
I know many people here don't like this kind of work, alterating photos is bad, hahaha, I don't like it, but the conceptual work required it, so, let me know what you think, Thank you Byron M.

If you had not of said they were clocks I would have told you they resembled animal eyes, now that I know they are clocks I see clocks

I see someone has already put forward a suggestion for you, and hopefully others might be able to offer up some suggestions too.... good luck.
....... Skippy (Australia)

David_S85

I like the idea of clocked eyes but I think it deserves a close-up. The full-face view doesn't allow the viewer to get the effect fast enough and might miss the clock entirely.

AfterImage

David_S85 wrote:

I like the idea of clocked eyes but I think it deserves a close-up. The full-face view doesn't allow the viewer to get the effect fast enough and might miss the clock entirely.

I agree. At first when i saw the photo I thought "neat!"
Then I read about the clocks and "neat" went straight to "wow !"

Maybe a close crop of 1/4 of the face so you get 1/2 the nose and one larger eye?

Browndog

Yeah at first glance I missed the clocks too. It needs a crop for sure. It is a great idea.

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Thank you ALL
Yes, the main problem is the close-up to define the clocks on the eyes, and I have been thinking about using other photo, but I'm not so sure, I looked out for another one with bigger eyes in the frame, and I came up with this one, the problem is that only has one eye exposed, so don't know...

Here it is:

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Naaah, I think this one doesn't work, and it doesn't have a clock in the eye , just to show you if it is usable, but I think it is not

Thanks for reading,



Byron M.

gtc

i would..
i would try shooting again ,in closer and with the clocks further away so that the reflection in the iris-interesting concept-good luck

Awais Yaqub

dont know what to do
nice try

dlibrach

I dig this kind of thing and think it is great! I prefer having the eyes appear as clock faces rather than reflections of a clock. I do find the colouring in the face distracting from the eyes though. What about a selective colouring (keeping the eyes by bw the face)? Just a thought...

Cheers,
Dave