Wow!! Excellent photograph and no comments?? Thats just freaky!! Well anyways I just love the details in this its amazing and great colors also! How did you do this??? Great job!

Thanks for the comment and . This shot was really difficult to get the focus right on because macro has such a small DOF, and all I could do was roughly estimate how far I had to be away from the lens. Took about 50 or 60 shots and this was probably the only one to come out usable. And it still required more photoshopping than I wanted to use.

I love this!
Amazing flash - I love the way that your iris looks - I've never seen anything like it!
The fact that the focus is blurred until it reaches the surface of your eye is awesome.

What color settings did you use?

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Thanks for the feedback.

As I said in my previous reply, a lot of the photo as adjusted in post processing. It was originally in full color and very evenly lit.

My eye is actually a greyish-blue and dark yellow, but I desaturated every color except for the yellow and darkened the blue channel (to make the iris a bit darker. Next, to cover up the bloodshotness I had and the somewhat focused lower lashes and ringlite, I blurred everything but the iris. Finally, to help pull attention towards the eye, I applied a lighting filter to darken the edges. Someday, I'd like to get an even closer shot (this one was taken at about 2 times lifesize), but I'm going to have to come up with a more reliable way to measure the focal distance... Or convince a friend that the flash won't cause permanent damage.

Well...If you don't go blind anytime soon, or your eye doesn't fall out - I don't think there's a problem.


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wow i've never seen so much details in the iris, wonderful capture there!
just impressive.

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gorgeous!

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Awesome! Excellent detail! The ring flash makes it look very alien like.

Thanks.