Digital camera help

12-30-2003, 06:10 AM

Ok this is more a "camera" thing than a computer thing, but ho-hum.

Anyways, I have my digital cam which is good and nice and all, but I actually know very little about photography. I can take pictures fine, thanks to the auto-focus and auto-flash and stuff like that, but I still tend to get the dreaded red eyes. How can I reduce this from happening? Is it caused by me being too close to the person or something? Or should I try and aim the camera away from their eyes? Or is the flash setting like wrong or something?

It's irritating when you take like 30 pictures, and 20 or so of them have red eyes in them. I suck at Photoshop so it takes too long to get rid of it too

**CREDO** · 12-30-2003, 11:24 AM

Downunder would know.. but I'm guessing its a flash issue.

DS · 12-30-2003, 12:37 PM

It's caused by the flash. I believe it's the pigments or something to that extent that reflects red in the picture. If you have a red eye reducer on your camera you can turn that on, otherwise it's pretty hard to get use to them in the camera itself.

So to fix: red eye reducer, turn down your flash, or just turn it off.

**Silent** · 12-30-2003, 11:19 PM

The flash will suck the life out of your batteries faster then you can say "Silent owns me with the rail driver"

Don't use it whenever possible. Just try to turn lights on and stuff, if you're inside.

12-31-2003, 12:29 AM

I'm not too concerned about batteries... my MP3 player doubles over as a battery charger, so I basically have unlimited battery power

**JJ Moore** · 12-31-2003, 05:56 AM

if its a gd enough camera it should havce red eye reduction on it, if not, just use image editing sofatware to inver the color of the eye or manually do it!

**The Destroyer** · 01-01-2004, 03:47 PM

Red eye touching up tools can be a bit dodgy... I used one once, and for some reason it decided to alter the colouration of portions of my eyelid. But yeah... just avoid over doing it with the flash.

01-07-2004, 12:10 AM

yeah it's a flash issue. With my cam to prevent red eyes, I have a feature on it. What it does is flash 4-5 little bursts before the real flash and picture taking. If I forget to do that I end up with 'red eye' pictures.

12-30-2003, 06:10 AM	#1
road doggy dogg Guest Posts: n/a	Digital camera help Ok this is more a "camera" thing than a computer thing, but ho-hum. Anyways, I have my digital cam which is good and nice and all, but I actually know very little about photography. I can take pictures fine, thanks to the auto-focus and auto-flash and stuff like that, but I still tend to get the dreaded red eyes. How can I reduce this from happening? Is it caused by me being too close to the person or something? Or should I try and aim the camera away from their eyes? Or is the flash setting like wrong or something? It's irritating when you take like 30 pictures, and 20 or so of them have red eyes in them. I suck at Photoshop so it takes too long to get rid of it too

12-30-2003, 11:24 AM	#2
CREDO Gruddammit! Posts: 6,075	Downunder would know.. but I'm guessing its a flash issue.

12-30-2003, 12:37 PM	#3
DS look at that hat Posts: 4,520	It's caused by the flash. I believe it's the pigments or something to that extent that reflects red in the picture. If you have a red eye reducer on your camera you can turn that on, otherwise it's pretty hard to get use to them in the camera itself. So to fix: red eye reducer, turn down your flash, or just turn it off.

12-30-2003, 11:19 PM	#4
Silent Posts: 10,880	The flash will suck the life out of your batteries faster then you can say "Silent owns me with the rail driver" Don't use it whenever possible. Just try to turn lights on and stuff, if you're inside.

12-31-2003, 12:29 AM	#5
road doggy dogg Guest Posts: n/a	I'm not too concerned about batteries... my MP3 player doubles over as a battery charger, so I basically have unlimited battery power

12-31-2003, 05:56 AM	#6
JJ Moore Worm Of Reality Posts: 4,062	if its a gd enough camera it should havce red eye reduction on it, if not, just use image editing sofatware to inver the color of the eye or manually do it!

01-01-2004, 03:47 PM	#7
The Destroyer Baird Posts: 27,345	Red eye touching up tools can be a bit dodgy... I used one once, and for some reason it decided to alter the colouration of portions of my eyelid. But yeah... just avoid over doing it with the flash.

01-07-2004, 12:10 AM	#8
YOUR Hero Guest Posts: n/a	yeah it's a flash issue. With my cam to prevent red eyes, I have a feature on it. What it does is flash 4-5 little bursts before the real flash and picture taking. If I forget to do that I end up with 'red eye' pictures.