Katy Isles poses for a macros still life photo of her eye in Studio on November 20, 2014.
For me, the eye always been a captivating story teller. The details and uniqueness of each eye is really something amazing to capture with photography.
To take a macro eye photo, it takes a lot of experimenting with the positioning of the light in studio. I wanted the light to catch the eyelashes, but I didn’t ‘want a light reflection that was too distracting.
The first photo was the best one I felt, because having the light straight on created a white box in the center of the pupil, which I found very distracting.
I preferred this light to the left of the model. (see diagram below). It left the pupil black, and sometime the white reflection would catch the reflection of the model’s eyelashes, which I really like the look of.
It took a very steady hand and a trusting model to let me get that close to here eye. I was using my 24-70mm f4, which comes with a macro option. I was incredibly close to the models eye, so make sure the model is trusting of you and your camera.
The camera settings for the above photos was an ISO of 100, aperture of 6.3, and a shutter of 1/200 (your shutter should be set to your studio flags setting, some cameras are 1/250 for example).
Here’s a lighting set up for the above three photos:
Kaiti Grant 