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Eye macro photography
Emile Victor
10:52pm, 13 June 2007
It's a great place to start practising one's focus, etc - what are the best methods for eye macro photography? Flashes are useless unless used at the right angle.
I would suggest a diffuser box if you have one, or simply diffused light cast at an angle on the subject that will prevent glare.
Don't do it wrong or it'll turn out with a reflection of the entire room like my one here:
www.flickr.com/photos/emilevictor/543685333/
I would suggest a diffuser box if you have one, or simply diffused light cast at an angle on the subject that will prevent glare.
Don't do it wrong or it'll turn out with a reflection of the entire room like my one here:
www.flickr.com/photos/emilevictor/543685333/
Emile Victor
12 years ago
Holy... Tasslehoff, how did you take a macro shot like that from that distance?
Tasslehoff Burrfoot
12 years ago
emilevector, it's not me.. reflection of some people who's shooting redbull air race :)
that's how i took this picture
that's how i took this picture

If you want to minimise reflections the best solution is to prevent things in-front of the eye being brightly lit. Diffusing the flash can make this worse.
Funny, the mix of animal- and human eyes. Eyes are the window to the soul? Here you have direct looks.....
jonbradbury
Posted 11 years ago. Edited by jonbradbury (member) 11 years ago
Thought I'd chip in with one of my own

shot using a ring flash so it isn't anywhere near as harsh on your eyes.

shot using a ring flash so it isn't anywhere near as harsh on your eyes.
jmhoying
11 years ago
My wife posed for this one. Here's an extreme crop (upside down)

And the original (she was lying on the ground with the tripod above her) SB800 bounced off of ceiling, left and right.

Jack
Fort Loramie, Ohio

And the original (she was lying on the ground with the tripod above her) SB800 bounced off of ceiling, left and right.

Jack
Fort Loramie, Ohio
Nick Creevy
11 years ago
it's so hard to manually focus on the human eye to get the right shot, I keep getting the focus on my eye lash lol..
SQUIRREL400 - photographingsquirrels.com
11 years ago

These are shots from inside my eyes .. notice the yellow specks .. they are right in the middle of where I see .. the spots are blood leaking and causeing loss in my site .. I have had laser treatments in both eyes (right being the worst) the bottom are my left eye .. shot in infered ..
with the treatments I hope to let my sight last but they will never be what they were before.. (the spots showed up in less than 3 months from my last eye exam )
They call this Diabetic Retinopathy and it is what causes most diabetics to go blind ..
thought some might like to see what can happen
LaurenHolloway
11 years ago
My first attempts! They were pretty quick, as I have finals coming up and I need to focus more on studying.. But I liked them (:



estenotopo
11 years ago
very interesting thread and wonderful shots!
Here is mine and yes, I agree with Kyle May
it was a pain to focus it.
Here is mine and yes, I agree with Kyle May
it was a pain to focus it.

Stephen Begin
9 years ago
I sometimes point my rig at human eyes, but have yet to get a picture that is as sharp as I know my camera is capable of. I suspect that perhaps the aqueous humour refracts some of the light, and this becomes a limiting factor as magnification increases.
m-san_Ceará
9 years ago
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my first and only eye-macro

EOS 30D, EF 100mm 2.8 Macro USM, EX430 with selfmadecardboardsoftbox on camera left
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my first and only eye-macro

EOS 30D, EF 100mm 2.8 Macro USM, EX430 with selfmadecardboardsoftbox on camera left
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SQUIRREL400 - photographingsquirrels.com
9 years ago

INSIDE MY EYES .. I have to have laser surgery every year or so to have some problems fixed .. this was taken over a year ago .. it's time to go back for another round ..