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Dory Eyed (tribute to casualguy)
Dory Eyed (tribute to casualguy)
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Challenge: Deja Vu (Advanced Editing III)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Location: Home, OH
Date: Dec 18, 2004
Aperture: f 6.7
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Humorous, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 18, 2004

 Was always impressed with casualguys' shot of "Pi in the Eye" and thought it was so neat and accomplished so simply. . . until I tried it myself! Went through four sets of 16 shots before I could get the image I was happy with.
Why Dory? Any parent or grandparent can tell you? With the grand children, you see it (the movie) so much you get Dory eyed (as opposed to blury eyed)!!! Symptoms: redness of the eye accompanied by a fish swimming in the vitreous humorous!
It is going to be interesting to see how many people think it is a contact lens.


Camera work: Made a hole in a large black card for the lens to fit in tightly, cut out a large dory-like fish and pasted it just above the lens. My wife (grandma) sat 12 inches in front of the card. Played with various lighting schemes and variious size fish. Ended up trippling the depth of the fish paper to avoid the black of the card from bleeding through under lights. Lighting the face and keeping the light from reflecting off the eyeball was the greatest challenge. Needed to light the face through a white cloth diffuser. Focused a separate light on the fish itself to amplify the reflection. Second greatest challenge was getting a very clean and sharp image. My wife had to hold very, very still for all of those attempts.

In Photoshop: Auto adjusted for color; cropped for effect; unsharpened mask by 125% @ 3.5 pixels with a threshold of 2; sized for the web; and adjusted color curve slightly one more time; adjusted whiteness of eyeball; added boarder. Thought about cleaning up the eyeball somewhat but the felt it would take away from the humor of a blurry eye. In fact, I wished it were more blood shot.

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Place: 86 out of 106
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/26/2004 03:58:52 PM
Very well executed with detail to spare. Bumping up.
 12/22/2004 09:50:23 PM
Thank you.....
 12/22/2004 12:40:51 PM
nice to see blood veins instead of a perfect eye...
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 12/22/2004 10:21:04 AM
An old idea with a fishy centre. Great.
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 12/22/2004 08:51:09 AM
Too bad you couldn't take care of all those capillaries.
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 12/21/2004 09:38:16 PM
Cool effect
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 12/20/2004 03:22:08 AM
I like this.
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 12/20/2004 03:01:21 AM
is that a fish?


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