Beauty is in the EYE of the Beholder

Stevick_Lee · 21st December 2002

Trying out my newly acquired Metz 32-Z1 flash, tilted -13 degree for macrophotography to prevent parallax error.
Heres a pic of my fiancee's eye in macro with a +4 closeup, converted to B&W, retaining the pupil's colour and superimpose a portrait of her taken earlier.

Beauty is in the EYE of the Beholder.

"Forever aspiring for inspirations"
Stevick
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Klause · 21st December 2002

Creatively done. Wonder how u get the reflection of the lady in the picture. Any digital work done other than the colour changes?

Stevick_Lee · 21st December 2002

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Originally posted by Klause
Creatively done. Wonder how u get the reflection of the lady in the picture. Any digital work done other than the colour changes?

Thanks Klause, yes, the superimposition was done in PS, well nowadays darkroom photography is something of the past (Its sad though).

Goondu · 21st December 2002

Stevick, creative shot you got there.

By the way, I hope you don't cross post the same image in the 2 sections.

maddog · 21st December 2002

amazing shot. but too much of the bottom right portion is out of focus.

Wolfgang · 21st December 2002

I like the shot, for it's creativity and the way it comes across.

StreetShooter · 21st December 2002

You might want to PS out the flash before superimposing her image.

Can also try making the iris (the pupil is the black dot in the centre) B&W, so that the only colour is the superimposed image, to see what it's like (although it works well like this).

Stevick_Lee · 21st December 2002

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Originally posted by Goondu
Stevick, creative shot you got there.

By the way, I hope you don't cross post the same image in the 2 sections.

Thanks.

Sorry Goondu, I bodoh mah!

. I didnt noe which category this pic should sit in. Hoping u guys can enlighten me. Anyway since this has got comments goin on, Ive already deleted the other. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Stevick_Lee · 21st December 2002

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Originally posted by StreetShooter
You might want to PS out the flash before superimposing her image.

Can also try making the iris (the pupil is the black dot in the centre) B&W, so that the only colour is the superimposed image, to see what it's like (although it works well like this).

Yo Street, thanks for the idea. Sorry bout the lack of anatomy knowledge of the human eye (me no bio grad)

. Anyway, the purpose of me retaining the flash spot, is to hopefully not make this image to PSed, keeping some fundamentals of the actual shot.

Goondu · 21st December 2002

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Originally posted by Stevick_Lee

Thanks.

Sorry Goondu, I bodoh mah! I didnt noe which category this pic should sit in. Hoping u guys can enlighten me. Anyway since this has got comments goin on, Ive already deleted the other. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

It's okay, and thanks for following up.

Tweek · 21st December 2002

the idea is good. Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you have taken your eye instead, and superimpose your fiancee's image? I mean, beauty in the eye of the beholder, so it should be your eye right?

One big spoiler is that flash in the pupil, that should be taken out. It looks as if your fiancee (in the pupil) is standing under a large ceiling light. Oh just curious huh, u tilted -13 degrees flash at her eye, wouldn't she be blinded??

on the whole, good effort!

Stevick_Lee · 21st December 2002

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Originally posted by maddog
amazing shot. but too much of the bottom right portion is out of focus.

Yo MadWoof, thanks for the pointer, guess my DOF too shallow, and also the disadvantage od a closeup filter, bad periphery.

Stevick_Lee · 22nd December 2002

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Originally posted by Tweek
the idea is good. Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you have taken your eye instead, and superimpose your fiancee's image? I mean, beauty in the eye of the beholder, so it should be your eye right?

One big spoiler is that flash in the pupil, that should be taken out. It looks as if your fiancee (in the pupil) is standing under a large ceiling light. Oh just curious huh, u tilted -13 degrees flash at her eye, wouldn't she be blinded??

on the whole, good effort!

Simple and straight forward answer, coz me dun have nice eyes. Well, she's rather confident of herself, so u can be the beauty of your own eyes too, u noe.

Nope. she says that its fine, as her pupil is focus directly into the lens at close range and I m using an omnibounce its not that bad at all, no aftereffect of blind spots at all.

Jer76 · 22nd December 2002

wah nice nice...

Falcon · 24th December 2002

Hi Stevick,

There must be so many posts here that I missed this one. Very creatively done. I really admire you guys with great photoshop skills.

21st December 2002	#1
Stevick_Lee Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: North Posts: 200	Beauty is in the EYE of the Beholder Trying out my newly acquired Metz 32-Z1 flash, tilted -13 degree for macrophotography to prevent parallax error. Heres a pic of my fiancee's eye in macro with a +4 closeup, converted to B&W, retaining the pupil's colour and superimpose a portrait of her taken earlier. Beauty is in the EYE of the Beholder. "Forever aspiring for inspirations" Stevick Singapore Pbase Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/stevick_lee PhotoSIG: http://www1.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=72595 Sony DSC F717 Fujifilm S304 Canon Ixus V2 Ricoh RDC6000 Nikon F601M Last edited by Stevick_Lee; 21st December 2002 at 02:23 AM.

21st December 2002	#2
Klause Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bedok Posts: 1,538	Creatively done. Wonder how u get the reflection of the lady in the picture. Any digital work done other than the colour changes? __________________ Canon Lover :)

21st December 2002	#6
Wolfgang Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Riddle Realms Posts: 5,831	I like the shot, for it's creativity and the way it comes across. __________________ -- "High Wired, Dream Sired"

21st December 2002	#4
Goondu Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,333	Stevick, creative shot you got there. By the way, I hope you don't cross post the same image in the 2 sections.

21st December 2002	#5
maddog Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Alexandra Posts: 1,289	amazing shot. but too much of the bottom right portion is out of focus.

21st December 2002	#7
StreetShooter Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Katong Posts: 4,702	You might want to PS out the flash before superimposing her image. Can also try making the iris (the pupil is the black dot in the centre) B&W, so that the only colour is the superimposed image, to see what it's like (although it works well like this).

21st December 2002	#11
Tweek Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: East Posts: 2,149	the idea is good. Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you have taken your eye instead, and superimpose your fiancee's image? I mean, beauty in the eye of the beholder, so it should be your eye right? One big spoiler is that flash in the pupil, that should be taken out. It looks as if your fiancee (in the pupil) is standing under a large ceiling light. Oh just curious huh, u tilted -13 degrees flash at her eye, wouldn't she be blinded?? on the whole, good effort!

22nd December 2002	#14
Jer76 Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Posts: 1,109	wah nice nice...

24th December 2002	#15
Falcon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,870	Hi Stevick, There must be so many posts here that I missed this one. Very creatively done. I really admire you guys with great photoshop skills.