I considering posting this to the photography gallery. Any suggestions or hints. You know thinks which could make the photo better. Brighter, darker, clearer eyes, less crowsfeet ect. Thanks. Bsteph

I'd say that the light by the bridge of your nose is too bright, and makes your face in that area look like a cut-out. The DOF seems a little shallow, too. Try bumping up your f-stop, or move the camera back and use a telephoto lens. That'll tend to give your features a little less depth.

Oh oh. Wait a sec. Are you referting to the bluring of my features on the left side of the image. I thought DOF is a good thing though. So shouldn't it be larger? OH and thanks for the fast feedback. Bsteph

Yeah, the blurring around the corner of your eyebrow. More
Depth Of Field (done with a smaller aperture opening - i.e.
larger f-number) will cause all of your features to be in
focus at once... if that's what you want.

Now you know the distortion you get when a dog stuffs his
nose into the lens of a camera to sniff it? The dog's nose
seems disproportionately large. You can create the opposite
effect by moving back from a subject and using a telephoto
lens to keep the frame full. This is often done in portraits
to make a person's nose seem smaller. The effect is to
flatten out features. You can use that technique, if
that's what you want as well.

I stress the "if"'s because I don't want to steal your
objective in creating that image from you. The image should
be what you want it to be, not what I want it to be, so
these are just suggestions.

Hmm good point. I like the eye being the focus. But it would also be nice to see the details of my face as well. Boy do I have oily skin in this pic! I took this with my digital. Actually I just stood there and directed the person holding the camera. So I'm not sure how to exactly do this myself withought trial and error on my own. But you have given me some good advice and some help. Thanks. Bsteph

actually I like the dof here, the only thing I wuold do is not shoot it outside so you can control that bright light on the right.... I do like this in general though, neat idea... (",)

me thinks if you burn in the white background to a black one, it would make a really great portrait shot, and have a cool contrast with the whiteness of the eye personally.

It would be interesting to see Slynky's idea, I like the dof & the way the focus is on the reflection in the eye but the brightness of the white is a little distracting.

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

I really like this bsteph! Great idea...

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

Yeah I tried to take the picture again. I think I am blind from staring into the light. Blaaaa. OK. I'll try again tonight. The last set were frustrating. Bsteph

OK here it is. Still want to do something to the face. Perhaps age it a tad bit. OH and add sparkles to the skin maybe. Bsteph

OK AI version just for Slynky ( never say I have not done something for ya .) Bsteph

Hey, Bsteph - this is way different toyour usual stuff, and I like it! that last one is cool - especially the right hand side texture. Nice. (",)

I like it too, the eye is really effective in the first one with that background you added, nice textures & effects in the second, I think something between the two would make a really cool image.

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

Well I'm done. This is what I envisioned eventually. Although I kinda like the Slinky version. I suppose it's more uplifting than PS'ed than what I post for the contests in general. But I ocassionally use psp. Generally I feel I can over do it with the filters. It's definitely more serious and hopefull I think. Comments welcome. Bsteph

I really like the way this has turned out now, the focus is centred on the eye & makes me look to see what you are seeing but there's all that interesting stuff going on with texture & filters, nice work ; )

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)