Eye problems

Not sure I understand the title of this thread. Can you explain?

Also the shot is out of focus. Unless that's the point of the title?

His eyes are glowing I can't get natural looking eyes

if you have photoshop or something like it.. you can clone that part out.

I have elements but I always have trouble with the eyes They never look natural.

Are you using a flash? That could be the problem, especially at dawn or dusk.

You did use the flash, 400mm, and 1/250th.. Looks a bit soft, maybe increase the ISO to 800 to double the shutter speed

Thanks I will try that next time.

in PS you could select the eyes one at a time and unsaturate them, seems natural most times.

That looks better thank you. You used the clone tool?

Sharah, at first I thought the subject wasn't focused on, but after looking closer the foreground and background are even blurrier than the subject which leads me too the conclusion it is probably either camera shake or a bad film on your glass. I see the focal length was 400mm, are you using the 100-400L IS lens? I use that one a lot myself. I have gotten some pretty sharp photos with 1/30 or slower shutter speed, so that alone is not the problem. If you can steady the camera with a tripod or monopod that will help, and try to focus (no pun intended) on holding the camera really still, perhaps using one of the focus points in the viewfinder as a sight to hold steady on a certain point of the subject. Did you do any post processing, such as sharpening and contrast levels? Did you crop this image?

I know you were asking about eyes and maybe you think I am going on a tangent here, but a sharper image will help to preserve the fine detail on the eyes as well as the whole image. Also, lighting quality and angle is everything when it comes to eyes as unfavorable lighting will take the lifelike look out of eyes virtually before anything else.

In fact here is a post where there was discussion on the very subject: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=590968

Why does it always seem that in-camera flash produces red eye, but not external or mounted flashed? I'm sure there's a good reason.

fubarhouse wrote in post #6573233
Why does it always seem that in-camera flash produces red eye, but not external or mounted flashed? I'm sure there's a good reason.

Because the in-camera flash is closer to the lens, why mounted are usually higher flashing as a slightly greater downward angle? Just a thought...