Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mini Lesson: Red-eye.

Do you experience red-eye in your photos regularly? Here's a tip: pony up some cash for a better camera. Red-eye occurs when the light from your flash is on roughly the same plane as your lens and the fundus of your eyes reflect back into the lens.

There is hope and a few things you can do with your crappy camera to fix this:
1. Turn on the lights in the room you are shooting in cheapskate. this will cause the iris to contract and reduce the effect.
2. use red-eye reduction. it does pretty much the same thing as turning on the lights, but it uses the cameras flash to force the contraction.
3. have your subjects look someplace other than directly at the camera.

that's all i have time for at the moment. If you want greater elaboration, feel free to look it up yourself. It will take less time than waiting for me to answer your question.

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