Old Blue Eyes

[JBW]

Shot from a tripod with flash and teleophoto/macro. This is one type of shot that I am hoping a better flash, lens and sensor will help me improve. And does anyone have a suggestion about correcting Blue Eye?

[Dave Humphries]

Shot from a tripod with flash and teleophoto/macro. This is one type of shot that I am hoping a better flash, lens and sensor will help me improve. And does anyone have a suggestion about correcting Blue Eye?

Hi Brian,

Well, the cause is most likely because the flash is too close to the lens axis, so anything you can do to get the new flash further from the lens barrel will help avoid it in the first place. e.g. if the new camera has a hot shoe, using a separate flash (instead of the built in one) is a possibility - finances permitting.

As to correcting it in PP, as I don't know what his/her eye should look like, I cannot advise.
If it were what I'd call a 'normal' eye, with a darker pupil than the surround, I'd say make the blue pupil black, but since the surround appears to be black, that could look worse than what you have now.


One other observation; on this shot presented against the "Dark" option CiC page (which I use, but you may not), this choice of border doesn't work well, the lower edge is so close in tone to the page colour that it 'disappears' visually, making the most obvious aspects a bright line across top and down left side - before I realised it was a bevel border.

Hope that helps, Dave

[JBW]

Hi Brian,

Well, the cause is most likely because the flash is too close to the lens axis, so anything you can do to get the new flash further from the lens barrel will help avoid it in the first place. e.g. if the new camera has a hot shoe, using a separate flash (instead of the built in one) is a possibility - finances permitting.

As to correcting it in PP, as I don't know what his/her eye should look like, I cannot advise.
If it were what I'd call a 'normal' eye, with a darker pupil than the surround, I'd say make the blue pupil black, but since the surround appears to be black, that could look worse than what you have now.


One other observation; on this shot presented against the "Dark" option CiC page (which I use, but you may not), this choice of border doesn't work well, the lower edge is so close in tone to the page colour that it 'disappears' visually, making the most obvious aspects a bright line across top and down left side - before I realised it was a bevel border.

Hope that helps, Dave

indeed it does. Better lighting is getting higher ton the top of my wish list with every not so good shot.

[Shadowman]

Eye color-you can do a search based on the species. To change, you can use an editor to change the color. Nice capture.