an iced glare

AdriaanSteyn · Jul 4, 2006

a friend of mine has this amazing animal with the most gripping glare
took this photo with my Canon 350D

mentos_007 · Jul 4, 2006

whoa nice eyes! But the picture would be better if you focused on eyes. The eyes are not sharp - only his fur between the eyes is.

AdriaanSteyn · Jul 4, 2006

thats exactly what i thought, but it was so difficult as he kept on moving, i ended up taking the pic while he was walking directly towards me...

would love to give him a good washdown and re-do this, maybe with a little help from the owner

Arch · Jul 4, 2006

cool shot...... this could be sharpened a little in photoshop...... maybe with a layer mask to just bring out the eyes.....

Also if it were slightly altered, i think it would make a good addition to the dark side gallery :fangs:

......... :mrgreen:

LaFoto · Jul 4, 2006

Yeah, I am sure our very own Archangel here would know how to make this icy stare quite, quite "darkside", hm?

A pity about the focus, maybe you should use a smaller aperture next time you get to photograph this dog so you have a deeper DOF and his moving does not matter so much.

Ah well, now I am curious to see what Archie woud make of this to make it "darkside"...

AdriaanSteyn · Jul 4, 2006

im not that well versed in PS, so please feel free to make any necessarry changes and repost

thanks for all the advice, much appreciated

karissa · Jul 4, 2006

To bad about you not knowing PS well cuase this shot would be so fun to play with. But wow... I understand about not getting them to settle down. I knew a dog with eyes kinda like that and never did get a good shot of them. If you still can.. I would keep trying to get the eyes in focus.

Arch · Jul 4, 2006

I'd probably do something like this for the dark side gallery........ i'd maybe add an image of a screaming person in the pupils too :mrgreen:

Just enhanced the eye colour........ used curves/levels and the shadow highlight filter on the fur..... and gave it a bit of vig....