We’ve all heard the saying, the eyes are window to our soul. Well, I took it a little more literally in this picture. I actually had to cheat for this one though. You see, those window reflections aren’t real. At first I tried to keep it legit by setting up my Canon 430ex flash outside my ground floor window. It did a good job of lighting up the subject but, the reflections in her eyes were just round, white, undefined blobs. So I took my picture and went into Photoshop.
First, I made a new layer and created a white square using the rectangle selection tool and the fill bucket. Then I took my eraser tool and made a cross in the middle to make it look like a four pane window. Next, I went back to my rectangle selection tool and selected the window-like reflection. This was so that I could transform it to give a slightly rounded shape; After all, it is supposed to be reflecting off of a spherical eye. Once selected, I right clicked and selected “Transform Selection”. Then I right clicked again and selected “Warp”. From there I just played around with it until I got the shape I was looking for. After that it was just a matter of bringing down the opacity of the layer containing my “window reflection” to 40%, copying the layer for the other eye and once I had my second layer matched up with the other eye, I just applied the gaussian blur filter so that it looked out of focus like the eye it was “reflecting” off of.
So, what do you think? Please let me know by leaving a comment.
