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Glowing eyes GOT EM TO photograph! Whoot.

Mar 3, 2008

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    1. They look wonderful in person, but if I cant get them to photograph well its not worth much.

      They glow, so instead of the nice diffused red with a brighter spot in the middle that I see in person the pictures look like the inside of his head is on fire. I think these are the ones I tried with a fast shutter speed, that seemed to help the glow better than the other things I tried but ended up fuzzy. Fuzzy I can fix, but nothing is really working for the massive glow. Im still new to caring about apertures and ISO and all that so layman's terms are best.

      P.S. ignore the crap in the background of the 2nd pic, I was just trying to see if direct light would help any.

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      #1 janmurphy, Mar 3, 2008
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    2. I guess noone had any ideas, but I figured something out. Id rather it had a bit of texture too, maybe in the next ones. I did put a faint pupil in there.
      So... tried a different approach. Diffused the light with translucent clay. Worked much better for photographing. Not sure if this is his look though. If only they had blue at the store...
      Unfortunately you can see the glow through the head a bit. I fixed that the first time by blacking out the parts that werent showing in the eye but I didnt really want to this time.

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      Poor Mal, his face is half off and his lip is chipped. He was at the start of getting cleaned for a new face-up when I just HAD to make glowing eyes.
       
      #2 janmurphy, Mar 4, 2008
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    3. I've been thinking about this, I'm not 100% sure how you could do it but when photographing say a candle -something that is it's own light source- and you're wanting to get even exposure throughout I think one approach would be to take two photos, one where you expose as normal for the rest of the image and another that's exposed for his eyes, then combine the two in photoshop.
      You'd need to have a play with your settings as what exposures etc you go for will depend on the set up you've got, i.e. what other light sources your using etc.
       
      #3 River, Mar 4, 2008
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    4. the green glowing eyes look amazing, the yellow and red as you said you can seen the light comign through the resin

      ummm have you tried using a tripod to help when using the faster shutter speed or even using a pile of books or steady surface to reduce of blur

      also maybe have a play with the apature (so sorry i cant spell) settings

      in photo shop you could use different layer to clean up the glow coming through the head, ie new layer soft light and use a flesh tone over the top will take some of the light away

      sorry if i have been no help!! good luck with it though
       
      #4 lootysushi, Mar 5, 2008
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    5. I am using a tripod there, they are just badly compressed. I feel like I should play with the aperture and iso settings more if I use these in a photo-shoot.
      The glowing through the head isnt a problem actually. I cured it in the first set by blacking out the parts that dont show in the eye. (like I wrote) I was just to lazy to do it for the 2nd test since Id already gotten what I wanted. Which was a photograph-able matte glow. =)
       
      #5 janmurphy, Mar 6, 2008
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    6. oh boy thats creepy! i love it! keep trying... you'll get it eventually!
       
      #6 Bukimeisu, Mar 6, 2008
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    7. This is absolutely amazing!
      great job!
       
      #7 good_night, Mar 7, 2008
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    8. ... actually, I thought I HAD it...
       
      #8 janmurphy, Mar 7, 2008
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    9. well then if you had it good job lol im sorry I guess i didnt read everything thoroughly, i thought you still had a few bumps left to work out>.<

      I didnt mean to offend you, i actually think its pretty cool! its definitely something ive never seen before.
       
      #9 Bukimeisu, Mar 7, 2008
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    10. Ooohh almost freaky,but thats awesome
       
      #10 Zeta-Byte, Mar 7, 2008
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    11. oh that's great! Reminds me of the NightFX thing taxidermy people use to get eyes to glow.
      The little scant appearance of a pupil is really hardcore. I'm so impressed! Fantastic work!
       
      #11 curiouscourtships, Mar 7, 2008
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    12. its really hard to tell the actual eyes in the pics, it looks like photoshop to me.
       
      #12 MidnightDreamer, Mar 8, 2008
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    13. ooops sorry i have a tenadancy to skip read and miss out chunks of text! lol hope you keep posting more awesome glowing eye pics!
       
      #13 lootysushi, Mar 8, 2008
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    14. Nice work! This is so cool!
       
      #14 Dollfieboyblue, Mar 8, 2008
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    15. Thanks, Im working on making blue ones but I just cant find the leds
       
      #15 janmurphy, Mar 10, 2008
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    16. Wow, that is amazing! I love the way the eyes look!
       
      #16 Maltiriel, Apr 17, 2008
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    17. So the problem is that the glow is showing through the head/eyelid ?

      i dont know if itd work at all, but i was just thinking to add something to the parts where its i guess thin and the light can shine through.. would it make it thicker and the light wouldnt be able to show?
       
      #17 captainkyo, Apr 17, 2008
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