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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Have You Considered Free Online Advertising?
By Jared Lansky | May 20, 2008
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Online advertising seems to confuse a lot of people in our world today and the most misunderstood thing about online advertising has to be the cost. Jared Lansky wants people to know that there is such a thing as free online advertising out there. With more than thirty five million potential customers online, why not give free advertisements a try.
It is hard to think of a place in this world today that lets you advertise twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, and for free. The reason for this is because there is nowhere else.
What kind of free online advertising is available today? Well Jared Lansky knows quite a few. A lot of people and companies believe the only free advertising on the internet is those free classified ad sites that actually exist on the internet. A recent survey indicated that there may be as much as three hundred plus places to actually advertise for free, without spamming.
Free advertising types used by Jared Lansky include free classified ads sites, appropriate newsgroups, search engines, your signature file, free link sites, reciprocal link sites, link exchanges, and press releases.
Most link sites and free classified ad sites are sponsored by individuals or companies. They have created the sites for the purpose of generating leads to help them promote their product or service. Also, it does take time to place these advertisements and you are usually required to provide more personal information such as your name, e-mail, phone number ext. Sometimes they will limit the ads to two weeks, but for the most part they are up for as much as thirty to sixty days.
Newsgroup postings are free, but do not spam or it will cost time and money and your service provider may disconnect your service. The downside to newsgroup postings is that your advertisement might not standout; so it is nice to post your ad using a lot of different headlines. Newsgroup postings are also a great way to test an ad before paying for print advertising.
For the most part Jared Lansky wants to open the eyes of small website holders and businesses to the availability of free internet advertising. It is all over the place and for the most part very simple to do. It is an easy way to create trafficking without wasting money. Just remember there are over thirty five million potential customers on the web.
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