The light?
2007-05-27 17:46:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
The flash from the camera hits the retina, and reflects back to the camera.
2007-05-27 17:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We've all see photographs where the people in the picture have spooky red eyes. These are photos taken at night with a flash. Where do the red eyes come from?
The red color comes from light that reflects off of the retinas in our eyes. In many animals, including dogs, cats and deer, the retina has a special reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum that acts almost like a mirror at the backs of their eyes. If you shine a flashlight or headlights into their eyes at night, their eyes shine back with bright, white light. Here is what Encyclopedia Britannica has to say about the tapetum lucidum:
Among many nocturnal vertebrates the white compound guanine is found in the epithelium or retina of the eye. This provides a mirrorlike surface, the tapetum lucidum, which reflects light outward and thereby allows a second chance for its absorption by visual pigments at very low light intensities. Tapeta lucida produce the familiar eyeshine of nocturnal animals.
Humans don't have this tapetum lucidum layer in their retinas. If you shine a flashlight in a person's eyes at night, you don't see any sort of reflection. The flash on a camera is bright enough, however, to cause a reflection off of the retina -- what you see is the red color from the blood vessels nourishing the eye.
Many cameras have a "red eye reduction" feature. In these cameras, the flash goes off twice -- once right before the picture is taken, and then again to actually take the picture. The first flash causes people's pupils to contract, reducing "red eye" significantly. Another trick is to turn on all the lights in the room, which also contracts the pupil.
Another way to reduce or eliminate "red eye" in pictures is to move the flash away from the lens. On most small cameras, the flash is only an inch or two away from the lens, so the reflection comes right back into the lens and shows up on the film. If you can detach the flash and hold it several feet away from the lens, that helps a lot. You can also try bouncing the flash off the ceiling if that is an option.
2007-05-27 18:34:51 · answer #2 · answered by jhartmanacdc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The lights and the flash reflect from your eyes, you can get rid of the red eyes from the new techonology available ask at your favorite camera dept and they will show you how.
2007-05-27 17:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by Janice 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its because of the amount of the light that is produced by flash light of the camera. this huge amount of light opens your pupil very fast so your eye seems red in the pic.
2007-05-27 17:50:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure you meant to ask:
What causes red eye when you take a picture?
Yes, it is the light and the way it reflects.
2007-05-27 17:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by beth l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This only happens with flash photography. It is the flash reflecting off the surface of your retina (inside back of the eyeball).
2007-05-27 17:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by Munesous 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It just indicates that there is infact not a large mass in your eye, if there were, it would flash back white off your retinas
2007-05-27 17:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by Sean 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Camera there was "Red Eye" mode button,switch it on,so that it wasn't any red eye at all.
2007-05-27 19:46:40 · answer #8 · answered by victor98_2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ur sorta right. the light bounces off your eyes and is captured in the picture making it apear as the color of your eyes is red.
2007-05-27 17:54:19 · answer #9 · answered by mcrfan198 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the demons inside you
also the light from the flash
2007-05-27 17:48:18 · answer #10 · answered by tricycle_pilot 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋