One Green Eye

[tsanchez012]

This was taken a few weeks ago. I shot it with a simple easyshare point and shoot. I kept the one eye green on purpose. I usually don't do that - either I am all color or all b&w. What do you think? Does it need sharpened up a little?

[Frog]

I'm being drawn to your unusual and creative compositions.
I actually think the green eye works ok though I'm not a big fan of selective color.
What I don't like is the catch lights which seem to be reflections of windows/

[tsanchez012]

I'm being drawn to your unusual and creative compositions.
I actually think the green eye works ok though I'm not a big fan of selective color.
What I don't like is the catch lights which seem to be reflections of windows/

Is there an easy way to fix that? I mean, I have photoshop, but I am no expert with it :idea:

[Frog]

Probably but I'll let someone else tell you how 'cuz if it were mine I'd just play with it until I figured it out.

[SmartWombat]

Why shouldn't catchlights be the windows of the room?
Just shows it was shot indoors with natural light.
Doesn't bother me.

[draymorton]

I like the catchlights, but if want to remove them in Photoshop, you could try using the clone tool. (There are probably lots of cleaner/more efficient ways to accomplish the same thing, but I'm not aware of them yet.)

Here's a real hack-job attempt. (I hope I didn't overstep my bounds trying this out on your image. Was just curious to see what it would look like.)

Yeah... I like the catchlights way better.

[Greg McCary]

I like the first edit. The eye is sharp and the face is soft. Nice job. I am not big on selective coloring but this one works fine.

[tsanchez012]

Draymorton - you didn't overstep at all.. I welcome any edits done to my work - I can shoot photos all day.. but it takes someone special to use photoshop!! However, I just can't help but to stare at where the catch lights were. It just doesn't look natural (that's kind of why I left them there). Thanks!

[draymorton]

However, I just can't help but to stare at where the catch lights were. It just doesn't look natural (that's kind of why I left them there).

I know what you mean. Removing catchlights is tricky biznits - something I've never been able to do all that successfully - so I usually just leave them in, too.

Much easier to add catchlights in than to remove them.

[gracie_r]

I really like this shot. It may be soft, but I think it works. I think the only distraction is the change in the background behind her (back of couch/chair vs. the wall?).