Do you mind if your night portraits look like something from the movie Twilight?If your models don’t belong to the Cullens, you don’t have to capture their red eyes. Yes, I know, you’re not doing it on purpose. ? The camera does it alone and then it’s up to you with an editor to touch it up so that the eyes look like those of a normal person and not those of a person possessed by Lucifer or any other supernatural creature. Well, if you want to save yourself this tedious work, which also offers somewhat unnatural results, stay here because I’m going to tell you some simple tricks to avoid red eyes in the photos when shooting. You’ll see how simple they are.
Understanding why this happens will help you avoid it and you’ll even be able to find your own tricks. Red eyes appear mainly in compact cameras where the flash is very close to the lens. When shooting, when there is very little ambient light, the pupils dilate to receive more light, which happens is that they also receive a flash light and this light is reflected in the back of the eye (full of blood vessels, hence their color). This also happens when you shoot with a DSLR with built-in flash camera for the same reason. Once you know why this happens, I’ll tell you how to avoid it.
- Your camera may have this red-eye reduction option that works by emitting a few flashes before shooting for the pupils to close.
- Which is that this system does not guarantee that red eyes will not appear.
- So I recommend that you use other means so that there is no need to finally resort to retouching in publishers.
In this type of camera, you cannot keep the flash away from the camera and therefore not the lens, so you can use the following tricks:
1. Try to place your model in a place where your eyes can receive more ambient light so that the pupils do not open too much, that is, it is placed in the most illuminated part of the room, it is not always possible, then we have to resort to other strategies.
2. Si several people need to be represented, try to get them to interact with each other so that they don’t look directly at the camera, so you’ll also get a more natural and spontaneous snapshot. just one person, you can ask him to turn his face to one side and not look directly at the camera, if that’s not possible either, because he wants a portrait from the front and looking at the camera, or you want it, for whatever reason, there are other ways to do it.
3. Ask your model or yours to look at a bright spot for a few seconds, then count to four, look at the camera, and take the picture. It’s a way for students to shut down before shooting the flash.
Another homemade trick is to place a small white card under the flash at an angle of about 45 degrees so that the flash light bounces and does not strike the eyes of the people represented.
In these cases, it’s much easier. The flash and lens are further apart and even independent from each other and you can make sure more easily that the light doesn’t reach your eyes directly.
In case the flash is fixed, simply point it towards the ceiling so that the light bounces and is more diffuse, this way you will avoid red eyes safely.
With the portable flash, simply direct the light to one side instead of directly to the face.
So what are you waiting for to practice?Oh sure, at night?ok, so I give you permission? In the meantime, if you find this information interesting, you can share it so that your Facebook, Google or Twitter contacts can also access it and when they take a picture of you at your next party, don’t look like Eduard Cullen’s cousin or brother-in-law (as fashionable as they are?). Thank you and I’ll see you soon!