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Challenge: Your Occupation II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
Location: Studio
Date: Dec 24, 2006
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Portraiture, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 24, 2006

 Came up with this self-portrait concept a while back and only just got round to trying it. Very difficult to focus on an eye and keep your subject still while positioning yourself and some light to be the only lightsource falling on her eye. In the end i used a single flash held just off to the side of the model, slightly forward from her face to stop any stray light falling on her from the flash directly - using myself as a reflector/umbrella substitute. This means i had to fire a rather high-powered flash at myself from about 6 inches away, which is why i\'m looking off to the left - to avoid burning out my retinas. A human eyeball isn\'t perfectly round, so you get some interesting distortion in the reflection. Also very hard to focus on a reflected object in an eye - and doubly so when you ARE that object, so you can\'t check the viewfinder.

One other problem is that all the light reflected is therefore no longer sunlight-balanced white, but an odd tungsten-ish skin colour (being entirely reflected off my face onto the model\'s eye). This calls for some odd hue adjustment to make it look natural.

Setup: 100-400L IS at 360mm with 67mm of extension tubes on a tripod, pre-focused on the eye (about 5 feet away), wirelessly triggered slave flash next to model\'s head pointing at me, mirror lockup and remote release.

Editing: crop, contrast, brightness, selective partial desaturation of the red channel everywhere except the iris and reflection, some minor cloning of dust in the eyelashes, resize, sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 105
Avg (all users): 6.2727
Avg (commenters): 7.8750
Avg (participants): 6.2941
Avg (non-participants): 6.2670
Views since voting: 1290
Views during voting: 419
Votes: 242
Comments: 19
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Nikon D7500
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 12/31/2006 02:15:22 AM
The shot would be great without the reflection. I really like how you got a level of detail however.
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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro USM
 12/30/2006 08:32:53 PM
Excellent!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
 12/30/2006 07:47:38 PM
very nice!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/29/2006 03:59:47 PM
There is a WOW factor. Very good DOF, nice clarity. Top 3.
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/28/2006 11:13:46 AM
Brilliantly executed. Amazing clarity and definition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/28/2006 12:24:21 AM
WOW! how did you do this???
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/27/2006 10:54:57 AM
what a beautiful set of lashes. very nice job getting the focus, dof and reflection too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 12/27/2006 04:56:10 AM
Great macro!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/27/2006 01:29:45 AM
I love everything except the face in the eye. Everything else the lashes and colorus seem very nice. that face just totaly throws me off.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 12/26/2006 11:23:19 PM
That's one wild shot. What a setup.
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 12/26/2006 11:12:13 PM
the lashes look unreal, but the reflection is impressive. compositionally I would have liked to have the reflected face looking into the pupil, rather than off to the left and out of the eye.
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Nikon D80
Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Nikon
 12/26/2006 11:38:44 AM
lovely photo, beautiful shot of the eye, could do without the reflection, imo
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 12/26/2006 03:51:07 AM
I really love eye shots and this one is really nice...my only neg is the distortion on the reflection person's face leaves them with a really unflattering look...amazing lashes...bumping up to 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 6s+
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 12/25/2006 10:30:10 PM
Love those lashes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus PEN E-P3
Konica Minolta MF 85mm f/1.7
 12/25/2006 07:17:17 PM
great portrait and beautiful eyelashes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM
 12/25/2006 03:11:51 PM
Wow!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/25/2006 01:13:23 PM
Happy Holidays! 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a7R II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/25/2006 04:10:14 AM
Nice reflection in the eye
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/25/2006 02:44:13 AM
absolutely awesome...a 10 from me
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