Assignment #51: Eye of Beholder

Nikolai

You would think that, given my history with numbers, this time we would have to shoot at exactly 51mm, 1/51 sec, ISO 51, having the camera exactly 51 inch (or cm, or meter) from the subject? Nah... :lol3

This week we're going to shoot the eyes! Pet, animals, people - all would do.
The idea is to get an eye to fill as large part of the frame as possible. Watch for your own (and camera's) reflection - you may or may not like how it looks.
One eye per shot please.
Basic EXIF (aperture, speed, focal length, ISO) is required, a link to the complete exif is appreciated.
For the rest of the rules, index, etc. please refer to this sticky.

Antonio Correia

A tip if you are going to shoot your own eye !

Antonio Correia

Egyptian eye to begin with

Antonio Correia

This EXIf is the same for this one and to the following pictures.
Balinese eye from a small wooden owl


Ganesh eye.
Fiji Island eye from an wooden statue.
The same eye under another perspective and light.
Is all this any good ?

Nikolai

Antonio,
Very creative usage of the reversed kit lens and nice out of the box thinking! However, the real - live - eye is a bit more challenging to shoot, so why don't we try to get that one, too

ShepsMom

Nikolai

ShepsMom wrote:

Beat's eye

Marina, nice one!
Who's that? What was the distance? How did you get him/her to pose?

ShepsMom

This is my dog , this was a crop job, but he was close enough though

dbaker1221

eye of a Brolga crane
looking back at me through a fence.

CameraNIKON CORPORATION NIKON D50Exposure Time0.0125s (1/80)Aperturef/8.0Focal Length195mm (292mm 35mm)iso 400

Antonio Correia

Correction
I have a correction to make.
I wrote that the the 2 last pictures were from "Fiji Island eye from an wooden statue".
It is not true because they belong to Kenian's Massai shepherd wooden statue, 35 cms height.
A detail.

Nikolai

dbaker1221 wrote:

looking back at me through a fence.

CameraNIKON CORPORATION NIKON D50Exposure Time0.0125s (1/80)Aperturef/8.0Focal Length195mm (292mm 35mm)iso 400

Dave, thank you, nice entry!

hejjafish

Here's my attempt
This is the eye of my sister's beagle. This is close to a 100% crop.



50mm, 1/60 sec., f/2.8, iso 200

Nikolai

Kellen,

hejjafish wrote:

This is the eye of my sister's beagle. This is close to a 100% crop.
50mm, 1/60 sec., f/2.8, iso 200

Welcome to dgrin!
Thank you for the entry!
I must say, it looks a bit oof. Any eye (a real one) is a challenging object to photograph, I would suggest closing aperture a bit, otherwise you most likely going to miss it, even if by a hair...

hejjafish

Thanks for the welcome.
That little dog surely was a difficult object to photograph. He'd never sit still long enough to get a good shot.:bash I'll give it another try.

Nikolai

hejjafish wrote:

Thanks for the welcome.
That little dog surely was a difficult object to photograph. He'd never sit still long enough to get a good shot.:bash I'll give it another try.

Crank up ISO :-) Use a little flash, too, or shoot from the window. It will create a nice catchligh and will make focusing easier!

hejjafish

2nd attempt
Well, after shooting a bunch. I think these are the best.



Nikkor 70-300mm @ 300mm, 1/60 sec., f/8, iso 500



Sigma 18-50mm @ 50mm, 1/90 sec., f/2.8, iso 500

Nikolai

hejjafish wrote:

Well, after shooting a bunch. I think these are the best.
Nikkor 70-300mm @ 300mm, 1/60 sec., f/8, iso 500
Sigma 18-50mm @ 50mm, 1/90 sec., f/2.8, iso 500

Thanks!
First one still looks soft, but #2 is definitely beter.

hejjafish

First one still looks soft, but #2 is definitely beter.

Thanks! The Nikkor 70-300mm is a little soft @300mm...oh,well. Shooting an eye is harder than I thought it was gonna be. Thanks for the challenge.:D

Snakeroot

I was visiting my grandma at a rehab center and they have a miniature horse outside. I remembered the assignment this week, so I took two shots at it. I had my 50mm on at the time and the horse wouldn't let me get too close, so this is a crop. I'll have to have another attempt at it

Nikolai

Snakeroot wrote:

I was visiting my grandma at a rehab center and they have a miniature horse outside. I remembered the assignment this week, so I took two shots at it. I had my 50mm on at the time and the horse wouldn't let me get too close, so this is a crop. I'll have to have another attempt at it

Yeah, please do. This one is waay too soft...

Chrissiebeez_NL

here is my take on the subject
taken with sigma 70-300 APO

C&C always appreciated!

EXIF

Nikolai

Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:

taken with sigma 70-300 APO

Thanks!
Finally somebody found a human model

Shima

Oh man, I haven't done an assignment in so long, but my cat definitely has the coolest eyes (they're green *and* yellow) so when I get home from class tonight, she's totally my target... I have some eye pics of her before the assignment date, but they don't count....so I'll be back when the kitty is near my lens later

Cuong

Brown Eye
My first posting in the Assignment. My girl's brown eye taken by a window with diffused off camera flash. I don't have any macro lens so had to use an old +4 close-up filter (back from the days of film SLR Canon A-1). Still had to crop off about 66% (from 3504x2336 to 2016x1344) then resized to 800x533.

Cuong

EXIF:
Date Taken: 9/06/2007 19:03:25
Camera: Canon EOS 30D + EF-S17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM and +4 Closeup filter
Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 800
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Photo Dimensions: 3504 x 2336
File Size: 110 KB
Exposure Program: Manual
White Balance: Auto

Nikolai

yukio wrote:

My first posting in the Assignment. My girl's brown eye taken by a window with diffused off camera flash. I don't have any macro lens so had to use an old +4 close-up filter (back from the days of film SLR Canon A-1). Still had to crop off about 66% (from 3504x2336 to 2016x1344) then resized to 800x533.

Cuong

Thank you, and welcome to the Class!

Snakeroot

new one and an old one



Exif: http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=193614597


Here's an old assignment I did for a digital art class combining two dissimilar things that relate to each other (there's an eye in it )
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/182771676-L.jpg

Snakeroot

One more


Exif:
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=193614652

Snakeroot

Chrissiebeez_NL wrote:

taken with sigma 70-300 APO

C&C always appreciated!

EXIF

beautiful blue coloring

Snakeroot

yukio wrote:

My first posting in the Assignment. My girl's brown eye taken by a window with diffused off camera flash. I don't have any macro lens so had to use an old +4 close-up filter (back from the days of film SLR Canon A-1). Still had to crop off about 66% (from 3504x2336 to 2016x1344) then resized to 800x533.

Cuong

I like the reflection you got... I didn't appreciate it as much until I tried it myself It wasn't easy for me to get a recognizable, clear reflection. Yours looks very clear. Good job

P.S. For those of you watching the monthly assignment thread... give me a bottle to shoot though and I can get all kinds of reflections! :P

Nikolai

Snakeroot wrote:

Exif: http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=193614597


Here's an old assignment I did for a digital art class combining two dissimilar things that relate to each other (there's an eye in it )
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/182771676-L.jpg

Thank you!
And I love the old shot. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it looks great anyway!

Nikolai

Snakeroot wrote:

one more
Exif:
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=193614652

Thank you!
I wonder whose eye is this?