When someone is quiet and still, then there is only one thing that does the talking. It is the pair of eyes that every human being has been blessed with. In photography, there is no motion and there is no talking, but the eyes of a subject in the portrait do help you to bring out the subject’s character and emotions.

For instance see in this portrait, the girl appears to be a very gregarious female with a lot of energy in her and positive vibes. Now let me tell you that it is not because the girl is actually somebody like that, but it is the photographer’s creativity to get that out in a single frame.

Now after knowing so much a about eyes and how they play an important role in photography, especially in portraits, you must want to know how this effect is achieved. While digital cameras, like the Canon Digital Ixus 980 IS, include face detection for taking better portraits, giving the eyes more emotion is best accomplished by using eye lights.  As the name suggests eye lights are the lights that are thrown in the eyes of the subject to bring a glint and sparkle to the eyes. Eye lights are generally small soft lights and are thrown right at an angle or from the same line as the camera and the subject. Of course, the quality of the actual camera is still important, and thankfully voucher codes from PurelyGadgets make getting high-end photography equipment a little cheaper. Nevertheless, eye lights are specialised and actually separate from the lights that are being used for general lighting purposes. They need to be a pair of extra light that will be thrown from a distance and will be focused on the subject’s eyes. These lights need to be soft light as hard lights can cause narrowing of eyes as well frowning.