New to The Forum...new macro shot

[jaysmithphoto]

shot with a Canon 450D xsi.
ISO set at 400

[windrider86]

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[tbarabash]

To me the skin tones seem somewhat harsh or over saturated. I'd keep the eye the way it is and just bump down the saturation or make some slight alterations in curves to lighten and kind of soften up the skin a bit.

Perhaps desaturate and then create a surface blur layer mask mask and mask to about 50% over the skin to really help smoothen it out but that's just me

[LeeR]

I ran this image through PS. I masked off the eye so I could do what I wanted with the skin without losing anything in the eye. Desaturating the skin does make it look more natural, but the overall image losses a bit in the process. Blurring the skin slightly is something we do with women all the time to make their skin look smoother, though I am usually reluctant to do the same with men where texture works so well. Contrary to what I may have thought, blurring slightly put more emphasis on the eye. We tend to be attracted by sharpness and when you blur the sking slightly, as I did, the only truly sharp thing for your eye to rest on is the eye in the image.

[Altair]

hi there, im new to photography so not a critique, just wanted to say that the idea of taking an eye is nice and I actually like the it