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How To Avoid Red Eye With Your Digital Camera
By Jared Lansky | May 25, 2008
By: Guest Editor
There is nothing worse than taking a beautiful picture only to find out the people have red eye. While many editing software can eliminate the red eye for you, it is nice to take a quality picture without having to change a thing. Jared Lansky wants you to know there are some things you can do to eliminate this problem.
Before knowing how to avoid it, shouldn’t you know what causes it? Red eye is caused by you taking a picture of someone with the flash on. The intense light that is let out hits the retina of the person’s eye thus illuminating the blood cells too quickly. This makes it so the iris of the eye cannot close down in time.
While it is fairly difficult to eliminate this problem because the flash is built so close to the lens, Jared Lansky says there are some things you can do. Obviously, the easiest way to eliminate this problem is to not use the flash. If you do not have enough light, this creates a problem. But you might as well take one with the flash and one without just to see what happens.
If you absolutely have to use the flash, move in closer to the subject. It may seem crazy, but the red eye effects tend to get worse the further away you move. This does not mean move right next to the person because if you are too close the features will become distorted. But try to stay within eight feet of the person for better results.
Another tip that not everyone is willing to do is have your subject look slightly to the left or the right of the camera. The digital camera will pick up the red eye most when the eyes are looking directly at the camera. By getting the person to look slightly away from the camera you can reduce the effects.
Not everyone is willing to take a picture like this because most people want the subject looking directly at the camera. If this is the case, you can use an external flash. What this does is eliminate the direct reflection problem altogether. For this method, you do have to carry around a small hand held flash unit, but it can drastically effect the picture for the better.
While there are a few more techniques you can use to eliminate red eye with your digital camera, these are some of the best according to Jared Lansky. And to capture the moment perfectly, the last thing you want is a roll full of red eye pictures.
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