In My Eyes

I agree with Bill - Willie the Cropper - when it comes to the nose. The blur is a big distraction for me. Unfortunately it's the first thing I focused on. I like the colors of the photo, they convey a soft feel. The reflection, photoshopped or not, is an interesting one. Well done.

I thought it was a great picture when I saw the thumbnail view, then when I saw it larger saw the reflection and thought it was even better.

good thought, replace a child in the center of an eye. but i really shocked why a child who reading qur'an (i think).

as i am a muslim but i think that, this photo is more brainwashing than artistic.

loving such a big thing, is too much for a child. i think we (in this photo you) use children as a subject. they are not what they are, they are what we want.

best wishes...

I admire this original image. Bravo! Congrats!

 

Notwithstanding technical difficulty in doing this composition I would have considered a different angle. Not for the well placed your daughter's eye but for your son.

 

Since I think this image have requested a lot of preparation I think that some more efforts to obtain a straight horizontal sit of your son and a slight different angle in eye position would have produced an even more impressive work of art.

 

Best Regards

 

Fabione

This is a very nice image. However, I must say that it is far from being original. There are many images around with a similar approach. Also I agree with the above comments regarding compositional flaws.
All of these images of the eye are clearly derivative of one of the best known photographs by Man Ray.
Talking about photoshop and its merits, again Man Ray (among many others) is proof that at a time when computers were unheard of (left alone photoshop) great photographers were able to produce effects that many have forgotten or are unaware of or unable to replicate in the darkroom. ALso, probably would take no less time in the digital darkroom than in the wet one.
To me the real question is that for some quick effects (or fixes) PS is extremely useful in speeding up and simplifying the work flow, but obviously it will never be able to make up for any lack of vision (pun not intended).

 

I dont normally comment on these things but thought i had to respond on this. I agree with a couple of people

 

1. about the child apparently reading the koran ? a bit strong

2. getting a level child and slightly different eye line would have been better

 

My critique is purely graphical and that is the blend has been poorly done. For instance it would be much better if the child was photographed against a black background you would then be able to keep the whole pupil without blending into the top left area of the iris

 

Small point you might say but try it and it looks sooooo much better.

 

Sorry but i just hate people saying how fab it is when it could obviously be improved so much. the original photo of the eye i really like

 

 

Amazing click.. main focus on the iris and per theme...

Marc, I have a feeling this was the original DOF blur rather than PS. I feel the nose blur to take up too much of the frame. It's become prominent. The center of her eye I like a great deal. Very good montage idea

Unbelievably precise exposure focused on the iris reflection.The idea is not quite innovative but the result is excellent.Best regards

What really works for me in this photo is the contrast between the dark flaring eyelashes and the white clothing of the boy in the eye. He's facing the same direction as the splayed eyelashes are pointing so it's like the dark lines are representing the conveyeance of the sound waves outwards. At least for me. Well done.

I like the subject and the composition of this photo, but like other, I am bothered by minor technical flaws. The most notable, in my opinion, is that the child seems artificially bright, to the point of distraction. I find it hard to believe that the white clothing is nearly a blown-out highlight whereas the white portion of the eye is uniformly less bright. Because of this, the eye with the reflection does not appear as it would in real life. To me, this makes the photo less pleasing. (I know that there is supposededly no PS in this photo, but I'm not really sure about that).

I love the detail. The eye lashes, the white in the eye, and the image in the pupil. Awsome!

Which makes an already beautiful picture even more special.

great work man !

Amazing reflection.

It its so clear and sharp!

I love it!

Congratulation to you Bohamdam. It's very great and very nice photograph. Specially concept of this photo is very important that you show it very good.

Warm regards.

"Marc, I have a feeling this was the original DOF blur rather than PS"

Hi, Ken. Then how do you explain that the boy is so sharp if DOF is no shallow ? See Lannie's post as well... Photoshop is only explanation I can imagine... Regards.

Marc, I actually believe that the convex reflective surface of the eyeball might have made it possible to get the sharp reflection with a long DOF at the same time that the rest of the picture shows a very shallow DOF--somewhat paradoxical, but at least possible.

That is my way of saying that both a shallow and a long DOF are theoretically possible in the same image, given the optical propertiess of convex reflective surfaces. In other words, what could never work with a flat reflective surface might have been possible with a convex reflective surface.

If so, then it should be easy to replicate the results.

--Lannie

I think its a super shot both of the eye but really then because of the reflection. I have read different views over the DOF and sharp reflection. I believe this is normal, and not ps work. The reflection is real and sharp when the focus is exactly on this point that will then be sharp. I have added an example where my Out of focus is at the point of focus and the class and very shallow. the scene in the glass 50meters or more behind the out of focus but sharp. There is no question of ps work effecting the reflection in this shot in my mind.

My example as per previous post. Sorry pic was to large first time.

Carl, Lannie, you may well be right, in fact. It just seemed unreal to me in terms of DOF, but the properties specific to curved surfaces or to an eye pupil are not something I know well enough to be sure of anything. Regards.

Marc, have you ever put your face up close to a chrome-plated surface that is convex and seen how big your nose grows?

That is a wide angle effect, even though it uses a reflective surface rather than a lens. I presume that Carl has gotten the same effect not with a convex reflective surface, but with a concave lens of eyeglasses. (I presume that he is near-sighted.) His increased DOF occurred as a result of letting the light go through the concave lens. Bohamdan has gotten a similar effect, I think, by using the convex reflective surface.

Another interesting thing I just noticed in the photo is the enormous DOF visible on that reflected convex surface (the eyeball): the image is in focus all the way from the reflections of the eyelashes all the way out to the image of the young man. That would indicate to me that the radius of curvature of the eyeball is sufficiently small that one gets a very long DOF effect comparable to an extremely short lens, or a very high f-stop (or both??).

I don't mean to suggest that my possible explanation is completely sound, simply that I am struggling to come up with some kind of rationale whereby Bohamdan could have gotten this effect without Photoshop.

This is pretty fascinating stuff when one stops to think about it.

--Lannie

 

As a graphical experiment, the result is decent.

In what the -pow- distinction is concerned, this is a rather ridiculous choice, which I can only interpret as a bizarre glitch in an otherwise consistent, if not elitist search&selection system.

Both the visual and narrative quality of the photo are mediocre - especially the boy's reflection is poorly rendered, leaving the viewer disappointed, as that reflection constitutes the (mental) focal point of the image as a whole.

Disappointing.

I'm so surprised that so many photographers in this thread have not seen the Kieslowski film "Bleu" from the Trois Couleurs trilogy. He and Slawomir Idziak (DP) used this very technique oh so effectivly.

I am giving up on Photo.net.

 

It should read - This "photograph" was chosen because the Elves think it is interesting and worthy of discussion.

 

My God, how completely has this website lost its way? Unbelievable. The harm that photo.net has done to photography is immense and just grows every day with images like this making into the POTW.