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Shoot like a pro - Nice shot: Getting the most out of your camera |
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Written by Rebecca LaPole and Erin Frustaci
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
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GET THE RED OUT
Nasty photo red-eye (which can also come across in photos as yellow eye or green eye, especially in pets) can be controlled.
Red-eye really is the reflection of the camera flash in a person’s retinas.
New versions of Adobe Photoshop now come with a specific tool for this problem. With one click of the button in this photo-editing program, red-eye is magically taken out of your pictures as if your name was Houdini. To get this to look realistic, however, may take some extra tweaking and can become time-consuming if you are correcting many photos.
If you don’t have big bucks to spend and lots of time to devote to photo-editing programs for your computer, there are some steps to take to reduce the red-eye beast while you take pictures:
• Flash it.
Use red-eye flash mode on your camera. If you’re using your camera’s flash, enable red-eye flash mode, which uses one or more brief pre-flashes to tighten the subject’s pupils for the main flash and exposure. The hope here is to narrow the retina enough so that the flash isn’t reflected in the eye. Partial successes are common with this measure alone, and it may not work at all on intoxicated subjects who have dulled pupillary responses to begin with.
• Increase ambient light.
Shoot photos in brighter ambient light if you can, both to narrow your subject’s pupils and to allow use of a lower flash power setting, which won’t reflect so much in the eye.
• Sober up.
Shoot your subjects while they’re still sober. Anything that further dilates their pupils will aggravate red-eye. Inebriation isn’t all that flattering, anyway.
• Look away, please.
Having your subjects look away from the lens a little may help. But this cure may be worse than the disease if it’s overdone.
• Get closer.
Get closer to your subject to widen the flash-subject-lens angle and evade the flashback in the eyes. The greater the distance between the camera and subject, the greater the lens-flash distance must be to avoid red-eye.
• Get your flash out.
An external flash positioned at least 5 degrees away from your camera lens (as seen by your subject) can keep the flash from reflecting back in the photo.
• Bounce it.
Bounce your flash off of a wall or ceiling to redirect the way the eye reflects light.
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