People Bike Rider with Beautiful Eyes

ctitanic · Dec 2, 2024

From time to time, I photograph strangers. Last weekend, during a hike at a local park, I encountered a motorcyclist. She was riding a striking white bike, and since it’s not often I see a woman on a motorcycle, I asked if I could take her picture. I had my EF 100-400mm L lens with me and decided to capture a portrait, focusing on her eyes even though her helmet partially obscured her face. As I looked through the viewfinder, I was captivated by her striking blue eyes staring back at me.

RazzleH · Dec 2, 2024

ctitanic said:
From time to time, I photograph strangers. Last weekend, during a hike at a local park, I encountered a motorcyclist. She was riding a striking white bike, and since it’s not often I see a woman on a motorcycle, I asked if I could take her picture. I had my EF 100-400mm L lens with me and decided to capture a portrait, focusing on her eyes even though her helmet partially obscured her face. As I looked through the viewfinder, I was captivated by her striking blue eyes staring back at me.

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This looks a bit set-up to me. Possibly I'm wrong, but, being a biker and an almost photographer something looks a bit skew-whiff. Maybe I'm just too IA sensitive yet, ctitanic, (smiling).

ctitanic · Dec 2, 2024

RazzleH said:
This looks a bit set-up to me. Possibly I'm wrong, but, being a biker and an almost photographer something looks a bit skew-whiff. Maybe I'm just too IA sensitive yet, ctitanic, (smiling)

Check the EXIF information and if that’s not enough let me know and I will post the link at Flickr where you can see more information about this picture. I’m an old member of this community and I have never posted or used AI to create a fake picture.

I asked this woman permission to take the picture, she asked if she should keep the visor of the helmet up and I responded Yes. After that I gave her my Flickr URL so she could download the picture when I post it there. Is all this fake too?

And yes, I’m “an almost a photographer” too but I do take pictures of strangers from time to time.

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ctitanic · Dec 2, 2024

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From time to time, I photograph strangers. Last weekend, during a hike at a local park, I encountered a motorcyclist. She was riding a striking white bike, and since it’s not often I see a woman on a motorcycle, I asked if I could take her picture. I had my EF 100-400mm L lens with me and...

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NGauger101010 · Dec 3, 2024

I've taken pictures at the local Renaissance Faire like this. I asked one of the actors and he agreed to have a photo taken.
His eyes are exactly like the lady's. He was wearing blue and green clothing.

Her eyes are enhanced by the deep blue jacket/top she is wearing in addition to the brighter blue visor.
I have no idea how this works, but it does. This is actually the 3rd time I've seen this effect.
Also, I took my photo in 2003 well before any AI enhancements and effects...

ctitanic · Dec 3, 2024

My picture has been retouched in Lightroom using masks but it was not created or any part replaced using AI. Her eyes were amazing, up to the point that when I saw them in the viewfinder I mentioned to her! The biggest retouching was in the face skin because ladies always complain about how their face skin looks in High Resolution pictures. That’s all.

ctitanic · Dec 3, 2024

NGauger101010 said:
Her eyes are enhanced by the deep blue jacket/top she is wearing in addition to the brighter blue visor.
I have no idea how this works, but it does. This is actually the 3rd time I've seen this effect.
Also, I took my photo in 2003 well before any AI enhancements and effects...

Also how the light is hitting her face. If you look carefully you can see in the visor and her eyes a patch of the blue sky reflected there.

NGauger101010 · Dec 3, 2024

ctitanic said:
My picture has been retouched in Lightroom using masks but it was not created or any part replaced using AI. Her eyes were amazing, up to the point that when I saw them in the viewfinder I mentioned to her! The biggest retouching was in the face skin because ladies always complain about how their face skin looks in High Resolution pictures. That’s all.

I had to retouch my original picture too. But yeah, her eyes are beautiful!
I noticed the sky reflection, right off. As I said; I have no idea how it happens, but it's a beautiful effect of light.

No matter where you look at the photo, your eyes are drawn to her eyes.

RazzleH · Dec 3, 2024

ctitanic said:
My picture has been retouched in Lightroom using masks but it was not created or any part replaced using AI. Her eyes were amazing, up to the point that when I saw them in the viewfinder I mentioned to her! The biggest retouching was in the face skin because ladies always complain about how their face skin looks in High Resolution pictures. That’s all.

Cool. Well done to catch our eyes so easily too.

ctitanic · Dec 3, 2024

RazzleH said:
Cool. Well done to catch our eyes so easily too.

Well, I would not describe as easy to ask a stranger for a picture. At least it does come easily to me. But that would be a topic for another thread.

RazzleH · Dec 3, 2024

ctitanic said:
Well, I would not describe as easy to ask a stranger for a picture. At least it does come easily to me. But that would be a topic for another thread.

I meant that your photo easily caught our observers eyes.

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