Self-porrait macro eye shots (a tutorial)

[alexandru&michelle]

thanks... it was big help in making me understand on how it is being done.

[hugy789]

Originally Posted by mseigafuse

My camera has an option to beep when it is focused, which I turned off because it was annoying - but I've thought about using that for SPs - have you ever tried that?

Mike

Im supose it could be useful but i havn't tryed it; i find it annoying too!

Originally Posted by Arun

Did you change the color of the iris? This would be nice to try and then make the eye color pop in post prod.

Im not quite sure what i did in post because my eye isn't that colour and i definitely didn't do it in photoshop itself, somethink in the raw converter but i can't think what....

I do remember lightening and desaturating the oranges (skin) to get that white colour and i did bump up the saturation on the iris but i dont't know how....lol!

Thanks to everyone who has commented

Ps. I have just got some cheap ebay extension tubes and my uncle has given me a old (very old) 28-200 tamaron lens, WITH and aperture ring so keep and eye out on my flickr photostream for some really cool up close ups of my eye!

[Dyfam]

Thanks for sharing.

I was trying some eye pics (not even self). But i couldnt get it right! I had many problem with light and also reflection on iris. What light setup did you use? Natural lights? Your eyes were facing the light source? I would really appreciate some info!

Thx again.

[hugy789]

For the above shot i used a 1.5x2 meter soft box with continous natural light, also know as a window with the sun coming in...

But for this shot

I used this home-made pop up flash diffuser (they call it a ring flash but it's not) http://www.adidap.com/2007/12/20/diy...man-ring-flash
I would really recommend it, the only thing is that you do get some odd specular highlights, i used the patch tool to get rid of them.

Hope all this helps

[Dyfam]

Thanks again! I was really having problems with exposure/light and focus (pretty much everything hahaha).

I will post something when i try eye picturing again.

[Ginger Pixie]

Interesting technique.

I read a tutorial for the ideas / advice - generally I wouldn't comment on it, so I wouldn't take it personally.

[Darren Rowse]

nice tutorial - thanks for sharing!

[SkyPirate]

I signed up to reply to this thread. Just letting you know, I for one get notifications on twitter for things like this and so we're linked to your review, but we don't have a forum account. A lot of people may be in the same boat, which is why you could be getting a lot of views but nothing else. We were linked to come here, we didn't find it ourselves

Nice tutorial, I may try it sometime.

[hugy789]

Yeah, i'm not really that bothered about the comment's anymore, i'm just happy for how many veiws i got, 2050+!!!!!!

Wow, thank you to everyone who has viewed/commented

[save_alkaline]

cool. sounds easy enough. i will try this one very soon. i can't view flickr from work though i can see linked images. is there any way you can add the exif data to your post?


thanks for that link to the DIY ring flash as well.