EYE SEE YOU

COLORS

Sky Turquoise Muted

blue orange

LIGHTING PROPS

Cloudy Flower Plastic

day eyeball

CAMERA SETTINGS

50mm f/1.8 1/800 s 100

LOCATION EDITING STEPS

Go location scouting in your neighborhood or community
and find a pretty flower bush. Find anything that blooms.
It can be a bush with flowers, a tree, or a garden.
STYLING
Created a flower eyepiece to put in front of your sub-
ject’s eye. Use a fake flower and plastic doll eyeball. Have
your model wear a teal or blue coat to match your color
scheme. Create a complementary color harmony of your
choosing.
POSING TIPS
Ask your model to hold the flower eyepiece by the bottom
of the stem so it covers on of their eyes. Cover the stem
with their hair or clothes.
TAKING THE SHOT
If you don't have much space, take an upper and lower
shot and create a panorama by stitching them together in
Photoshop. Otherwise, take a photo with a central com-
position, keeping the person’s eye in the top third of the
frame.
1 In Lightroom, use batch editing to unify all blues—
the purple flowers, navy coat, and the fake, turquoise
flower—into one cyan blue (mainly in HSL).
2 Create a panorama with your two images, using
"Auto" or "Collage" in Photomerge. Crop it with a 1:1
aspect ratio to create a square format.
3 Use the Liquify tool to reshape hair, and the Healing
Brush or Clone Stamp tools to correct or fill in any
imperfections. Mask and brush as needed.
4 Use the Marquee tool and Transformation tool to
copy and enlarge the eye. Use a mask and a soft, black
brush to mask the edges.
5 Use a Curves adjustment, mask, and brush to add a
shadow to the eye, and the Clone Stamp tool to add
extra petals to the inner part of the flower.
6 Use three other Curves adjustment layers to brighten
the face, create image contrast, and make the eye more
blue and brighter.
7 Adjust blue tones using Hue/Saturation, Color Bal-
ance, Gradient Map, and Channel Mix adjustment
layers. Add a vignette with a Curves adjustment layer.