Dwayne Oakes
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The Cover Of Darkness
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Sandrine Bascouert
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the shot is really intruiguing...did you considered leaving the green eyes as a purpose or just leave them like that, unedited?
I can feel the cold in the stalker's feet as I watch this image...
I can feel the cold in the stalker's feet as I watch this image...
Doug Kerr
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It is interesting to note that the "eyeshine" we see here is a quite different mechanism from the "redeye" effect we often see in humans.
The eyeshine results from a fascinating feature of the eyes of most carnivores (and various other species as well), the tapetum lucidum. This is a reflective layer behind the retina proper. It takes the part of the image light that passes through the retina proper and reflects it forward so it strikes the retina from the rear, increasing the overall sensitivity of the retina. (It is slightly reminiscent of the "backlit" sensor now emerging into digital camera technology.) Not surprisingly, the effect is most prominently found in nocturnal hunting animals.
The effect can exhibit different colors, with blue, green, or cyan being most common (although it is red in rodents).
The actual redeye effect is caused by reflection of light from another feature behind the retina, the choroid, which nourishes the back of the eye. It is more prominent in humans with blue eyes than brown eyes.
In animals with a tapetum lucidum and blue eyes, the redeye effect may overpower the eyeshine effect. In animals with two different color eyes (some Siberian Husky dogs, for example), we may see from the blue eye the red phenomenon of redeye and from the other eye the green phenomenon of eyeshine.
Because the tapetum lucidum only covers part of the retina, eyeshine declines more rapidly when the subject looks away from the camera than does redeye.
Best regards,
Doug
The eyeshine results from a fascinating feature of the eyes of most carnivores (and various other species as well), the tapetum lucidum. This is a reflective layer behind the retina proper. It takes the part of the image light that passes through the retina proper and reflects it forward so it strikes the retina from the rear, increasing the overall sensitivity of the retina. (It is slightly reminiscent of the "backlit" sensor now emerging into digital camera technology.) Not surprisingly, the effect is most prominently found in nocturnal hunting animals.
The effect can exhibit different colors, with blue, green, or cyan being most common (although it is red in rodents).
The actual redeye effect is caused by reflection of light from another feature behind the retina, the choroid, which nourishes the back of the eye. It is more prominent in humans with blue eyes than brown eyes.
In animals with a tapetum lucidum and blue eyes, the redeye effect may overpower the eyeshine effect. In animals with two different color eyes (some Siberian Husky dogs, for example), we may see from the blue eye the red phenomenon of redeye and from the other eye the green phenomenon of eyeshine.
Because the tapetum lucidum only covers part of the retina, eyeshine declines more rapidly when the subject looks away from the camera than does redeye.
Best regards,
Doug
Dwayne Oakes
New member
the shot is really intruiguing...did you considered leaving the green eyes as a purpose or just leave them like that, unedited?
I can feel the cold in the stalker's feet as I watch this image...
Thank you very much for the comments ! I left the green eye shine in, it was a planned shot.
Great info on the eye shine Doug, Thank you ! One of nature's wonders for sure.
Take care,
Dwayne Oakes
Ben Rubinstein
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Would love to see it in B&W..
Dwayne Oakes
New member
BW might work Ben. I like the green eyes and how they draw you into the photo.
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Dwayne Oakes
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Dwayne Oakes: The Cover of Darkness
In this case, Ben, there's such a paucity of anything but the head, building the composition, that we can take color. Here just two minute spots, that's all we see at first. Then we appreciate a head and it's threatening and foreboding. This use of color is so restrained and yet powerful. Too often, color is an easy way of making poor designs attractive. In this exceptional case, however, B&W would, I think, be have far less dramatic impact. B&W generally depends on form and texture. Here, there's not a lot of either.
Now color signals primitive forces. That's the key to it's value I think. Color in such a minute dose is focused. Just those two bright eyes finish the stark picture perfectly.
Asher