Thread: Post your eye

Originally Posted by Adam

Your eye look... Angry.... Or very scared.

Huh... just my expressionless eye. I was busy trying to take a picture of my eye, you see...

Gnome, I just wanted to say that up-close, you have very pretty lashes

Your eyes are always so incredibly dark brown, GH, though I'm not sure if it's just the lighting in the pic, or if they really are that dark?

PJ, your eyes kinda remind me of mine... grayish-blue color with a little gold around the pupil. Thanks for posting!

Omg, everybody has such beautiful eyes! Well here are mine

Yay more brown eyes finally! Very pretty, xox

Originally Posted by Burns

Yay more brown eyes finally! Very pretty, xox

Indeed.

Can someone shine some light (or no light) on how to take a clear picture of your own eye.
Third try and all mine are blurry.

Originally Posted by Howie

Can someone shine some light (or no light) on how to take a clear picture of your own eye.
Third try and all mine are blurry.

I used the macro setting, no zoom, and no flash. I got near a window for a good natural light source, and steadied my elbow with the camera on the sill for stability. I took about 20 shots, and only that one turned out - most were blurry or off center. Just take a ton and one is bound to turn out sooner or later!

I think my eyes are naturally semi-bloodshot... (actually I hate allergies, I really do - if I rub my eyes just a little, they'll start itching a good bit). Usually by this time of year it's passed but it's still dragging on.



Edit: By the way, make sure you disable flash - I forgot to do that and had the camera like 5 inches away from my eye - and I'm still seeing colors. :p

Originally Posted by Howie

Indeed.

Can someone shine some light (or no light) on how to take a clear picture of your own eye.
Third try and all mine are blurry.

I have a desk lamp whose hood can be twisted around so that it shines upwards. For both of my eye pictures, I've pointed it up towards my face. I then stare in the general direction of the light bulb and take a macro shot while resting the camera on my cheekbone, pointing up at my eye. It helps a lot that my camera's screen can swivel around so I can see the screen while I take the shot, but with some luck and patience you should be able to get pretty good results.

The biggest problem when trying to get a clear shot is your eyelashes. They tend to draw the auto focus, making your iris and pupil look fuzzy. One solution is to open your eye REALLY wide, so your eyelashes won't draw the focus, and then relax back to normal before actually taking the shot. You could also just keep on trying until it happens to focus correctly, but this could be hard to do without seeing the screen.

If you have someone else around, back up so that your head is against a wall or window, and have them take the shot while resting the camera on your cheekbone. This should be easier, as they can aim the camera correctly. However, you will have less lighting and you'll still have the focus issue.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Burns

I used the macro setting, no zoom, and no flash. I got near a window for a good natural light source, and steadied my elbow with the camera on the sill for stability. I took about 20 shots, and only that one turned out - most were blurry or off center. Just take a ton and one is bound to turn out sooner or later!

Thanks Burnsy! I will give that a go.
I find myself laughing when I picture you in the act of taking twenty pictures of your own eye - by the window.
Your neighbors.... I would love to be a fly on their wall sometimes.

hey.. just read your reply too thegnome54. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Howie

I find myself laughing when I picture you in the act of taking twenty pictures of your own eye - by the window.
Your neighbors.... I would love to be a fly on their wall sometimes.

LOL you are right on - our neighbor WAS outside the very window I was standing at. God only knows what he must've thought I was doing with a backwards camera pointed in my face lol

Originally Posted by Burns

LOL you are right on - our neighbor WAS outside the very window I was standing at. God only knows what he must've thought I was doing with a backwards camera pointed in my face lol

What a strange world we live in, where people who live continents apart from us know more about some aspects of our day-to-day lives than those who live next door...

Your neighbor probably thought you were trying to take pictures of the room, with the camera backwards!

Well, I got my camera! And here's my eye. I'll try to get a better one picture soon, but I'm just beginning to learn this new-fangled machine.




My eyes are blue, not sure how well that shows up here, as the lighting wasn't all that great.

Here's my eye....thought I had something better but evidently not

I love eyes, they're probably my favourite part of the body So many people have lovely eyes here




Will try to get one really close up tomorrow or soon at least

Some of you men have very long eye lashes! Toaster, you especially!!



Edit: man I didnt know my eyes were so red! Must go sleep.

Marvo, I'd swear your eye on page 2 has a surreal loking hand in it...look at it closely...I am amzed...do you see that?

Toaster, along with gnome, you have beautiful eyelashes!

Now store that compliment away, because you probably won't hear it very often.

What I find fascinating about the eyes are how these are just sensory organs in our bodies that enable sight. We see out of these little blobs of jelly. It's incredible.

Originally Posted by bro

Marvo, I'd swear your eye on page 2 has a surreal loking hand in it...look at it closely...I am amzed...do you see that?

It's the reflection of my two hands holding my camera

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

Toaster, along with gnome, you have beautiful eyelashes!
Now store that compliment away, because you probably won't hear it very often.

Compliment stored for when I'm feeling depressed thanks

Originally Posted by bro

Marvo, I'd swear your eye on page 2 has a surreal loking hand in it...look at it closely...I am amzed...do you see that?

Yea... it's definitely a being from the spirit world... it's trying to poke you in the eye Marvo.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Some of you men have very long eye lashes! Toaster, you especially!!



Edit: man I didnt know my eyes were so red! Must go sleep.

Very nice Mes. I'm trying to work out where you are, by looking at the reflection. Looks like my bedroom to me ...

Well it definitely is a bedroom!

Mes, your iris just looks like a solid uniform colour (except for those dark things flotting around), don't think I've ever seen that before...