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Doodle Eye Glow
I have thoroughly enjoyed perusing the wonderful pictures of Doodles in the photo section. I noticed that many of the pictures have the typical dog eye glow when shot with flash indoors.
The weird green or blue eye glow that appears in those photos is basically the same as red eye effect in people. If the flash is located very close to the lens (as it is with many small cameras); the light from the flash enters the eye and reflects back from the retina causing the red-eye effect in people and blue or green glowing eyes in our Doodles or other dogs.
The absolute best way to avoid glowing eyes is to prevent it altogether.
If you are using a more sophisticated camera with an accessory flash unit which will allow you to bounce the flash off the ceiling; that is the very best way to prevent glowing eyes. Bouncing also provides the most natural and flattering lighting for any flash portrait. All DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras and some more simple cameras allow the use of separate flash units which attach to the cameras hot-shoe or through a PC cord.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my Canon DSLR camera didn't seem to produce the glowing eye effect - even when I was using the camera's built in flash and not bouncing. However, I still prefer to bounce the flash from a separate flash unit because of the better overall quality of the pictures.
There are several things that the photographer using a more simple or point-and-shoot camera can do to prevent or reduce the glowing eye syndrome.
1. Camera red eye reduction – some cameras use a red eye reduction setting to reduce or prevent redeye in human subjects. Usually this done with a quick pre-flash which serves to contract the pupils of the eyes. This will help to varying degrees with pictures of your Doodle. I would try this first if the camera does not allow the use of a flash that can be bounced.
2. Try not to shoot directly into your Doodle’s eyes - If the Doodle is not looking directly at the camera – there will be no eye glow.
3. Try to shoot without flash – many of today’s digital cameras allow shooting without flash in brightly lit rooms.
4. Even when you use flash – having the room lit as bright as possible will contract the pupils of the Doodle’s eyes and reduce eye-glow effect.
If your photos have your Doodle’s eyes glowing, they can be remedied very easily. Most photo editing programs allow you to remove the eye glow. These programs range from the very expensive and rather complicated Adobe Photoshop, through the less expensive and more user friendly Adobe Photoshop Elements to the free programs listed below which are available as downloads.
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/pet-eye-pilot.htm
http://picasa.google.com/
The weird green or blue eye glow that appears in those photos is basically the same as red eye effect in people. If the flash is located very close to the lens (as it is with many small cameras); the light from the flash enters the eye and reflects back from the retina causing the red-eye effect in people and blue or green glowing eyes in our Doodles or other dogs.
The absolute best way to avoid glowing eyes is to prevent it altogether.
If you are using a more sophisticated camera with an accessory flash unit which will allow you to bounce the flash off the ceiling; that is the very best way to prevent glowing eyes. Bouncing also provides the most natural and flattering lighting for any flash portrait. All DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras and some more simple cameras allow the use of separate flash units which attach to the cameras hot-shoe or through a PC cord.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my Canon DSLR camera didn't seem to produce the glowing eye effect - even when I was using the camera's built in flash and not bouncing. However, I still prefer to bounce the flash from a separate flash unit because of the better overall quality of the pictures.
There are several things that the photographer using a more simple or point-and-shoot camera can do to prevent or reduce the glowing eye syndrome.
1. Camera red eye reduction – some cameras use a red eye reduction setting to reduce or prevent redeye in human subjects. Usually this done with a quick pre-flash which serves to contract the pupils of the eyes. This will help to varying degrees with pictures of your Doodle. I would try this first if the camera does not allow the use of a flash that can be bounced.
2. Try not to shoot directly into your Doodle’s eyes - If the Doodle is not looking directly at the camera – there will be no eye glow.
3. Try to shoot without flash – many of today’s digital cameras allow shooting without flash in brightly lit rooms.
4. Even when you use flash – having the room lit as bright as possible will contract the pupils of the Doodle’s eyes and reduce eye-glow effect.
If your photos have your Doodle’s eyes glowing, they can be remedied very easily. Most photo editing programs allow you to remove the eye glow. These programs range from the very expensive and rather complicated Adobe Photoshop, through the less expensive and more user friendly Adobe Photoshop Elements to the free programs listed below which are available as downloads.
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/pet-eye-pilot.htm
http://picasa.google.com/
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Permalink Reply by Louise and Toby on
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Well, wow, Richard! Thanks for the tutorial. I am one who gets yellow dog eyes and have asked how to get pictures without that. I'll work on reading this a little better when I have more time but just want to thank you now!
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Permalink Reply by Tante & Jordan & now Annie! on
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I have Corel it has an animal glow eye fix and it is an easy fix....but I am just lazy.LOL
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