Stock Shot Project

In this images I was striving for a concept of riveted attention.  To achieve this I envisioned a pinpoint focus on the pupil of the eye with a plane of focus picking up some of the eye lashes and the glasses, while everything else was out of focus.  Coming in this close with the Nikon 105 macro, even at f/5.6 the depth-of-field was extremely shallow.  Shooting from the side instead of straight on emphasized the shallow focus and rendered the right-side background completely soft.