I probably could have explained myself better... raccoon eyes are what we call the look generated by strong directional light coming from above that causes the brow to cast shadow into the eye sockets (light travels in straight lines so this can be eliminated by using a surface opposite the light source to "bounce" some light into the shadows and fill them in... a piece of white paper can often do the job)... the hot spot in the middle of the face also suggests a strongly directional light with little diffusion (this can be fixed by intercepting the light source with a diffusion material between the light and the subject... like a white bed sheet which will force the light to "ricochet" off the threads in random directions causing it to be significantly less directional)... this resulted in an overexposed image in one area and under exposed in others. after that, a filter of some sort was applied... it looks like a bleach pass filter (referring to a developing technique from back in the film days) but depending on whatever program you were using it could be called a hundred things.... the filter pushed the image the rest of the way into the "way over exposed" range. You said you thought it was bad lighting... it was... I was just trying to roll with the joke in my usual socially inept way.