Project 5 - Eye contact and expression

This project is set to examine the difference in a various eye directions in a photo. I had done this project a self-portrait for I couldn't get someone else do it... (yes, they do have a life).
I set a tripod pointing to a blank back-ground so it will emphasize the difference at the eye-direction. I chose the AV mode on f/5.6 and took my pictures:

Direct eye-contact:


A profile picture. You can see I'm much better in the other side of the camera...

Slightly to the side


Here I look very slightly to the side (I looked at a button in the camera). It gives a feeling as I'm drifted to a day dreaming.

Up and to the side


As I see this photo it seems to me like an old-times leader photo, like a big warlord looking to the bright future.

Down and to the side


this photos can be 2 things: either I have something to hide from you or there is a scary thing down there (like a creepy crawler). but it is a photo that makes you feel you don't have all the picture, that there is for sure something there.

Directly up


this is clearly a photo of "why? what have I done to deserve it?"



I like this project. How many different photos from the same subject in the same background, everything the same except the direction of the eyes. and yet you have photos that are so difference one from the other.