Lost in your eyes

Beautiful portrait with nice details.Regards

Excellent work. Great framing.

Fantastic eyes! Well done!

/daniel

It's a great picture but I don't remember seeing it on the gallery by ratings or by views!? What's up with that?

Is it just me, or is the photo actually really really scary?

How did you set up the lighting for this shot? What lighting equipment were you using?

The eyes being the most important part of a portrait you've really nailed this. Fantastic! Congrats on a very deserving POW

Mark, you're not alone! My immediate reaction was 'How scary!' It's a striking image. In the nature of things any shot that concentrates on the eyes will grab our attention. The intensity reminded me of a famous close-up shot of someone's eyes in the Odessa Steps sequence in Eisentstein' 'Battleship Potemkin'. In the end I find the lack of context as well as the well-manicured and rather cold technical surface inhibits my total surrender to this.

Like most people have said, it's all in the eyes here, and I don't

care to analyze it, I just want to be taken in.

gorgeous portrait. the child reminds me of the ones in loretta lux's photographs.

 

http://www.lorettalux.de/

The artist is also part of the photo, as she is reflected in both the eyes.

This looks like some red channel emphasis with channel mixer, which is fine with me because I usually do the same. This is a nice technical tribute to that marvelous 10D, but above all a wonderfull endorsement for the vision of Nina for such a stunning shot. Well done.

First of all let me say thank you to all of you!

I've never expected to make POW - so this sure was a very pleasant surprise today :)

 

Michael D.: The picture was in the gallery by ratings and views following days after I submitted it. At least I found it there :)

 

Mark A.: Hehehe - I never thought about the picture as scary until one of my coworkers said that exact same thing! But I assure you; My little 4 year old really shouldn't give you nightmares ;) She's a doll (yeah I know - what mother wouldn't say that about her own child...)

 

Craig R.: I really didn't set up anything. Available light only. The picture is taken outdoors on our balcony on a cloudy and grey day - ergo the light was very soft.

 

David M.: Rerally nice to hear the picture really made an impression!

 

Manuel D.: Thank you so much! And thanks for the link. I haven't seen this photographers picture before and I really enjoyed browsing through them.

 

Willemjan B.: Yeah - I'm in there as well ;) Though I swear I didn't plan on being part of the photograph. But with kids you have to work so fast (they get tired of it all before you know it!) and I didn't notice until later :)

 

Scott E.: Ayup - used the channel mixer to convert the picture to B&W :) And thank you so much for your kind words!

 

And to the rest of you: Thank you all so very very much once again!

I have admired this photo for a long time and im glad its photographer has finally gotten some credit. I could stare at those eyes for hours. Time is nothing with those eyes.

Nina,

 

I don't think anything is as arresting in a photograph as when the eyes engage the camera as your daughter's have here. The fact that you didn't plan to be a part of the picture by being reflected in the eyes is one of those serendipitous gifts. The title indicates a twofold recognition of what's going on in the picture - the viewer getting lost in those huge eyes (almost lemur-like they're so big) and the photographer's own image being captured by the eyes as the portrait was captured in the camera.

 

I'll have to mosey on over to take a look at the rest of your work now.

Outstanding photograph!! Is your only modification turning it to black and white in photoshop? It really is a stunning photograph!!

Good light and the subject is appealing, but the image dosen't have any feeling for me,just a blank stare,IMHO!!!!!

Very interesting. I wish I had a portfolio full of wide angle children's head shots so I could better understand what I'm looking at. I suspect the plane of her face is not parallel with the film plane so the eyes and forehead appear larger than they would otherwise. Nina, do you remember the focal length?

Zach R. and Carlos B.: Thank you both so very much!!!

 

Steven Hall: Thanks! No - this is taken a bit further than just the black and white convertion :) I've attached the plain b&w version if you're interested in having a look :)

 

Carl Root: Really nice to hear you find it interesting :) The focal length was 40 mm (F/5.6, 1/30 s, Raw Iso 200).

 

:) Nina

great work on the sutleties of the grey scale.

Beautiful picture, beautiful face and eyes! I don't think that you can take too many pictures of her. I would be interested in precisely what you did with channels, if you have the time. Did you just save the red channel or did you so something more complicated?

Inspiration!!!

 

I love your photograph of your adorable daughter. I am inspired

to continue with my discovery of my Canon 10D and 17-40 lens

that I have also recently invested in. If I could only get such a

shot!

If you don't mind, I would really appreciate if you could forward

me any information such as the below (downsized copy of file)

so I can attempt to enhance my photos in a small way as you

have so eloquently done here. Any tips are appreciated.

My email address is steph@stephleahphotography.com

 

Thanks for sharing!!

Steph

 

Mark James: Wow! Thanks you! And no - I didn't use a red filter. I

converted the picture to black and white in Photoshop using the

Channel mixer. Send me a mail and I'll send you a downsized

copy of the file to show you what I did :)

I remember seeing and commenting on the 'little tiger' a year or so ago on Photosig... but, as Mark and David mentioned earlier too, I find this picture a bit scary. Is it the dark shadow around the eyes, the straight and clear look, or the crop... anyway an original portrait. Congrats Nina!

Try circular spects on her eyes.

Great fun and speaks volumes! I particularly like the way this image gives an impression of many ages i.e. the dress and hair look much older than the face and the eyes seem to have seen more than the face has had time too see etc.