How can I take a picture of a cat that uses flash, but doesn't make its eyes glow?
2006-12-24 07:29:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Try not to use flash, but if you have to try to defuse the flash buy taping a piece of wax paper over the bulb, or make a snoot (rolled tube of paper) to redirect your flash to the ceiling.
2006-12-24 07:33:23 · answer #1 · answered by corryglory 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't use a flash, if you can... try using a high speed film, if you have a digital try setting the iso to something really high and making the aperture as wide as possible, and have a fast enough shutter speed so you don't get all blurry (might be helpful to use a tripod). you'll probally have alot of grain in the photo but oh well, no red eye. Maybe you can get into a staring contest with your cat and have something like a 5 sec exposure?
2006-12-25 03:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by jaegerms 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to take portraits of children - at least as difficult to deal with as cats.
One of the tricks was to use a movie camera instead of taking a series of single pictures. (Well, movies are nothing BUT a series of single pictures.) I would then go through the movie film frame by frame, find good ones, and blow them up. Took a little longer, but I got some wonderful shots.
Same thing should be true with a cat. As you experiment, you'll find the best angles for not distorting the eyes, bringing out the sheen of the fur, getting the best vieew of the face and body, etc
Good luck
2006-12-24 21:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a helper distract the cat so he.she is not looking directly at the camera, but off to the side instead.
Or, fix it with Photoshop. This is not great, but we just met this cat yesterday and I took a few 4 MP pictures. This is about 10% from the center of the image. Her eyes were absolutely white in the middle, so I used the clone tool and played with it a while, lifting the black and grey colors from the black jacket in the background.
http://www1.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=57759389/PictureID=2799674091/a=75953750_75953750/t_=75953750
2006-12-24 16:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you have some very good answers (except the one about traping the cat). cats have minds of their own in those furry little heads of theirs, and are not always easy to photograph. i have an olympus E-500 and it is a dream-easy to use, and i've gotten some pretty good pics of our cat with it, some outside, some inside, when she isn't looking directly at the camera, it also has redeye remover in the camera (a really sweet camera), for when i shoot the grandkids, they look at the camera and the red eye makes them look like something out of a steven king novel, so it is good to be able to remove it instantly.
2006-12-24 17:40:09 · answer #5 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take a lot of pictures and have someone fix the "red eye" or whatever odd color problem. Don't worry about the eyes so much. The pose or activity is what matters!
2006-12-24 16:37:45 · answer #6 · answered by Chauncey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can buy this pen that you go over the glowing eyes and they make them back to normal.
2006-12-24 15:42:32 · answer #7 · answered by Caroline 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use the Red Eye setting...all it does is darken the area of the "Red" even if it isnt red, for example... "Glowing"
2006-12-27 16:41:24 · answer #8 · answered by im gonna use all 32 characters!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRY TO USE A CAMERA THAT CORRECT THE RED EYE.
IT PREFLASH A FEW LIGHTS BEFORE THE REAL ONE, SO THE PUPIL IS CLOSED WHEN THE REAL ONE STRIKES
2006-12-24 17:14:14 · answer #9 · answered by bigonegrande 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
trap the cat
2006-12-24 15:30:37 · answer #10 · answered by christ lover 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋