Starry Eyed Surprise

I have been meaning to try out a close up of a human eye since I got the Macro Lens Adapters. I know that getting the light right can be difficult with reflections etc to contend with and wanted to try out something a little different.

I quite like the effect you get from ring flashes so started thinking about making one. After a bit of thought, I purchased some bright white LED lights from a well known auction website. I then mounted these on an old bit of ply board with a cut out for the camera lens and soldered it all up. I thought I'd start small with just 8 LEDs but will be attempting some more ambitious LED projects soon (I have another 92 LEDs to use up after all!).

Here is one of my shots with the DIY ring flash / light.



By the way, it is my bloodshot eye in the picture - Must have been a heavy one the night before :-)

Playing with Colours

After seeing some interesting examples on youtube.com using Photoshop I have been using Paintshop Pro to experiment with changing eye and hair colours in photographs.

Here is a photograph of Angelina Jolie


And here it is again after my changes


Then I had some fun with my own eyes (natural colour is on top left)!

Eye See You!

Got a bit of a backlog of photos to go through at the moment and today came across one of my macros of the human eye...well, my eye to be precise.

I've seen loads of good examples on the web and flickr but they are a lot harder to do than I thought. After several failed attempts I managed to snap this one.



You can see the reflection of the lamp in the pupil which I was trying to avoid but I've only tried these at night & I'd imagine you can get better results using natural light so I'll give that a go. Be sure to keep your 'eye' on the blog for future posts !!