My digital camera will not remove red eye?

Question

My digital camera flash is set to remove red-eye. It is not reducing the red-eye in my pets when I take photos of them. Is there a reason for this? Is there anything I can do to fix the problem?

Answer 1

Animals just have huge pupils compared to humans. You'll have to learn how to get the red out (or green or white with pets) using Photoshop or some similar program. Clone or paint a small bit of a dark shade at about 50% opacity over the offending part of the image. Working at very high magnification is helpful when cloning or painting. Keep SOME of the white highlight from the center of the pupil, or it will look fake.

Here are some eyes I fixed using cloning in Photoshop Elements 5.0, as described.

http://www1.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=57759389/PictureID=2799674091/a=75953750_75953750/t_=75953750

Answer 2

Go to Google.com and download Picasa 2. This is the best free program to manage your photos. There is a tool (very easy to use) that will remove red eye. It's under the Basic Fixes section. I highly recommend this program for all your photo needs. Very user friendly and the price is right.

As for red eye, it usually happens when the flash is too near the plane of view on the camera. If possible elevate the flash or defuse the intensity. Even the pros have an occasional bout with red eye. If you can, have the subject look away so that the flash will not reflect off the back of the eye.

Answer 3

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.)

Usually, the most straightforward way used is to preflash in order to close the pupils of people's eyes before the main flash fires. This method helps, but doesn't completely eliminate the red-eyes.
It doesn't work on your pet perhaps due to its eye having different characteristics than human - maybe it needs different frequency or reacts to preflash slower or faster than human eye. In this case preflash doesn't produce the desired effect.

You might want to read the ideas at that Wikipedia page I put as a source. The best way to beat the red-eyes is use more light, in this case it will be a large external flash with a diffuser or bouncing from the ceiling. Besides removing red eye It will produce much better photos.

Answer 4

Many of these features are just not very good. However, once you transfer them to a computer there are many programs that can artificially reduce red eye.

Answer 5

if yours is sony....well the same problem happened to me as well, juz edit it with your photoshop (manually)