What does it mean when your eyes are red in a picture?

Question

Some people ALWAYS have red eyes in pictures, while other's don't. What do you think this means?

Answer 1

it is a reflection from the flash

Answer 2

Red eye (red-orange reflex) in pictures is the retina's (inner part of the eye) reflection. It means the pupil and the camera's lens are co-axial. Actually it is a sign of healthy eyes or rather if you have this you are assured that you don't have certain eye diseases like cataract, corneal opacity, intraocular tumors and other eye problem that can block/remove the retinal reflection. Aside from computer softwares that you use, one way to prevent this in photos is to focus a little bit off when your pictures is being taken.

Answer 3

From a optomitrist view, that means that you will (if you already don't) have eye problems in the future. There are only 2 true colors for healthy eyes, Blue & Brown. Anything other than that will either turn into an eye problem or already has an eye problem ie. not having 20/20 vision, which may require glasses, surgery ect.

Answer 4

You are seeing their retina!!!

The light of the flash occurs too fast for the iris of the eye to close the pupil. The flash light is focused by the lens of the eye onto the blood-rich retina at the back of the eye and the image of the illuminated retina is again focused by the lens of the eye back to the camera resulting in a red appearance of the eye on the photo. (This principle is used in the ophthalmoscope, a device designed to examine the retina.)

The effect is generally more pronounced in people with grey or blue eyes and in children. This is because pale irises have less melanin in them and so allow more light to pass through to the retina. Children, despite superficial appearances, do not have larger pupils but their pupils are more reactive to light and are able to open to the fullest extent in low light conditions. Many adults have lost the ability to fully open their pupils except through the use of drugs.

In many species the tapetum lucidum, a light-reflecting layer behind the retina that improves night vision, intensifies this effect. This leads to variations in the colour of the reflected light from species to species. Cats, for example, display blue, yellow, pink, or green eyes in flash photographs.

Answer 5

It doesn't really mean anything except that the flash is being reflected. The more modern cameras usually have red eye reduction or it can be removed by a professional photographer.

Answer 6

Its the flash on the camera that causes it. You can get rid of that if you put the pic on the computer and use a photo program for red eye.

Answer 7

You can see the blood behind someone's eyes if their eyes are light in color and a strong light is passing through their eyes. This is one of the reasons why the same people always have red eyes. Your eyes don't have to be a light color, they just have to be a light shade of your color. Y'know how albino people have reddish looking eyes? It's for this similar reason. There is little color in their eyes blocking you from seeing the blood behind them.

Answer 8

I thought it was a glare or flash thing. Don't think into it too much. My lil chuahuah's eyes look red in many pictures, I wouldn't start thinking she the devil. She is the sweetest thing!

Answer 9

The reflection of the flash in your eyes, when the picture is snapped... There are several things you can do to get rid of "red eye"...

http://www.ehow.com/how_116151_rid-red-eye.html

Answer 10

Probably it mean that flash have reflect on your eye making them look red but weren't really.

Answer 11

That they are evil. No im kidding. Its the flash reflecting on the eyes. I bought a marker that takes that off.