Photography (red eye) question

[Spooner]

I'm using a Canon S330 Digital Elph camera.

I've noticed that so many of my pictures are ruined by the dreaded red eye. What are ways of stopping this from happening?

On a related note.... is there a Photoshop plugin/action that automatically gets rid of red eye?

 

[Anubis]

there should be a setting in teh camera for red eye flash. mine has one Olympus C-720. it flashes twice and theres no red eye. im gonna guess yours has one also. and yes you can fix it in photoshop you can do anything in PS i just dont know how

 

[Spooner]

i haven't seen the option with this camera

anyone know?

 

[lupohki]

Look for the 'eye' symbol. All 3 digicams I've owned had it .. Kodak dc240, Canon S110, Nikon 995

 

[PsychoAndy]

Okay, here's a crash course in eye anatomy. Your pupils expand when dark, contract when bright. When you take a pic without a redeye flash (usually a double flash), the pupil is still expanded, which causes redeye. So you can either get the flash to activate twice, turn on some lights, or worst case, flash them in the face with a flashlight, regular light, or flash and then take a picture. Your camera should have a red eye setting. Read the manual.

 

[lowtech1]

1. Turn off on camera flash.

2. Take pictures out door only.

3. Cover the flash with a piece of paper/tape.

4. Use an off camera-flash if camera sport a hot-shoe or X-synch.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Okay, here's a crash course in eye anatomy. Your pupils expand when dark, contract when bright. When you take a pic without a redeye flash (usually a double flash), the pupil is still expanded, which causes redeye. So you can either get the flash to activate twice, turn on some lights, or worst case, flash them in the face with a flashlight, regular light, or flash and then take a picture. Your camera should have a red eye setting. Read the manual.

Or you can get an off-camera flash, or another camera that positions the flash further away from the lens-which is what causes redeye.