Eyes

One might think "eyes" are easy to photograph. It's kind of like the idea of taking a picture of a white carnation. Sounds simple enough, right?

As far as "eyes" are concerned, there are all kinds of eyes out there, including potato eyes. Eyes by themselves are extremely expressive. I saw a post of very theatrical eyes of women that was by a photographer that does Maybelline ads. Mine aren't like that.

I was trying for something different with this experiment in photographing eyes, but you need some willing subjects.

Needless to say, my dog was mostly uncooperative.

I took these pictures of my husband's eyes with the 'portrait' setting on the Canon Rebel T1i, which softened the detail too much. Double click on all the photos to see the larger image.

My dog turned to me and his nose is so long that the camera focused on his nose.

These are my husband's eyes, taken with the macro setting, which provided much more detail.

This is a neighbor's long-haired dachsund with a muzzle on.  Why he needed a muzzle, I'll never know - he was the sweetest thing and wasn't aggressive at all.

And this is the dachsund's daddy. I was playing with black and white conversions on this one, the lines in his face are very interesting.

This is a neighbor right after she came home from work, perfectly willing to stand still for me for long enough to squeeze off a few snaps. Without the rest of her face, you can see her eyes are smiling.

This is a friend's Boxer. He always has the cutest expressions on his face.

Even without the rest of his face you can see his expression in his eyes.

The eyes truly are the window to the soul, and I took them on as my challenge this weekend. You can see more "eye" pictures from others in comments at this old post at the Digital Photography School.