You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by dr rick:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I'm sorry to say I don't particularly care for this photo. Interesting idea, but I think the stars need to be much smaller and more artfully arranged for it to work. And they need to either be sharp or very soft. The paper burrs from your filter show up plainly here, and are distracting.

(A variation might be to photograph the eyes from the front, with some star-shaped lights reflected in them.)

You've probably already figured out from the other comments that your method (and thus the fact that this was real bokeh) wasn't apparent from viewing the photo. I don't think there is much that can be done about that...

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by ButterflySis:
I don't consider this bokeh. To me, neither the head or stars are blurred. I find the stars distracting, actually.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by ubique:
Sorry, I don't feel there's any element of bokeh here. 4.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by orussell:
Sorry but I don't see bokeh in this image.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by LevT:
where is bokeh? everything is in focus...

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by Pixelstate:
Sorry, I don't get this entry.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by Montereykiddo:
If you could have made those stars more out of focus it would have been better. They are a little distracting from your subject the way they are.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by NeoScales:
Had to take a second, even a third look at this image to see the stars were far off in the distance. Nice bokeh....

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by Bear_Music:
Here's the way I see it; "bokeh", technically, is an out-of-focus artefact created by spherical lens distortions. Artistically, it's a concept of interplay between out-of-focus and sharp-focus elements in a composition.

For me, your image does not meet the terms of the challenge especially well, because everything in it is realtively sharp, and there's no subject/ground interaction at all.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment by nsbca7:
What? yeh, i like the humor.