On Jan 14, 2006, at 6:03 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I looks to me like the eyes were especially sharpened. To get that effect you would make the rest of the image look over sharpened or completely mushed up..
It's quite easy to selectively sharpen just the eyes. I've seen this done with portraits. Perhaps in this case someone simply overdid the sharpening and were in too much of a hurry to really notice.
- Dave

