large pupils

12sndsgood · Mar 7, 2012

Okay. so editing some pics of Casey that I shot saturday, noticing she has very large pupils. im guessing it was due to the room being darker, i usually close the blinds and curtain and keep the lights off so that the light doesnt fight with my flashes it was still daytime so its not like it was super dark, am i making to bid a deal out of closing the curtains and such. is there a way around this. could it be just her because when i shot danielle and her son the week before it wasn't nearly as noticable as it was on casey.

think im just noticing them because her eyes are so light colored they just stand out allot more.

still would be interested to see what sort of other light or lack of light you guys have going on when your in a studio type setup.

fokker · Mar 7, 2012

Never tried it but I've read that you can shine a flashlight at the face of your model before each shot to shrink the pupils down some. Probably easier to just have some lights on though.

It does look weird having ultra large pupils, makes people look like they're on drugs.

Bossy · Mar 7, 2012

I'm sorry, whats the question? Dark room, large pupils, light room, small pupils. If you are using flash why not just have some lights on in the room?

12sndsgood · Mar 7, 2012

yeah i was flipping back to her picture, then a few others and it seems just her eyes are such a light blue, almost grey that her pupils just stand out bigtime. i think when i photo her next time i might try the flashlight trick or try and get the light up better to get them smaller.

Bossy · Mar 7, 2012

Try something. Go to your studio set up without the flash, with window open, closed, and lights on, and take a picture of each at your flash settings. Come back and report what the image looks like

12sndsgood · Mar 7, 2012

well i was worried about the light interfering with the flash. the only real light in the room is the ceiling light which was almost directly over where my model would stand. was just worried about the diffrence in light. guess i could possibly gell all my flashes. but i figured turning the light off would be an easier solution. which it seemed to be until Casey came along.

12sndsgood · Mar 7, 2012

Bossy said:
Try something. Go to your studio set up without the flash, with window open, closed, and lights on, and take a picture of each at your flash settings. Come back and report what the image looks like

i'll do that next time i get a chance.

Big Mike · Mar 8, 2012

well i was worried about the light interfering with the flash. the only real light in the room is the ceiling light which was almost directly over where my model would stand. was just worried about the diffrence in light.

If you're shooting at F8, ISO 100 and 1/200, the ambient (ceiling light) probably won't register in the photo at all.

12sndsgood · Mar 8, 2012

so what you guys are sayign is the one time i take the extra step to avoid any issues, its unneeded lol. okay, i'll move on and start worrying about something new and mark this one off the list.

ghache · Mar 8, 2012

yuuppppp, keep lights open, this will make pupils smaller.

gsgary · Mar 8, 2012

I take it you are using speedlitghts because this would not be a problem with modeling lights

chuasam · Mar 8, 2012

That's why a lot of models take Cocaine

Tony S · Mar 8, 2012

That's why a lot of models take Cocaine

Cocaine causes the eyes to dilate... you want a model on heroine so you get those nice pin point pupils that will really show a lot of eye color.

chuasam · Mar 9, 2012

Pin point pupils are unattractive. Large pupils arouse interest.

Derrel · Mar 9, 2012

chuasam said:
Pin point pupils are unattractive. Large pupils arouse interest.

LArge pupils make a model look like a newbie took her photos in a jet-black studio, after she had take a healthy dose of "some kind of pills".

Large pupils arouse interest? I have heard that many times. To me they look amateurish and just bad...like the subject has been drugged...