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Photos [Somewhat OT]
I've tried again to take Mico's picture, and so far only one out of about 10
shows him with his gorgeous blue eyes. I've used a disposable camera, and a Polaroid. The other pictures I've taken have redeye, or weird yellow blanks for eyes. Anybody have any advice on how to take a good picture? Does anybody know if they can do something with this at the photo shop? Thanks in advance, - Ruby Tuesday |
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I've always had good luck taking a picture where the cat is *not*
looking into the camera. Try to snap the photo when he's looking slightly to the side or up. That way, the flash won't reflect off of his eyes. Another idea is to use the "red eye" feature that some cameras have, where the flash goes off twice. The only trouble I've had with this is that there's often a hesitation between flashes and kitty moves, so you don't always get the shot you want. Rene |
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"Ruby Tuesday" wrote in message ... I've tried again to take Mico's picture, and so far only one out of about 10 shows him with his gorgeous blue eyes. I've used a disposable camera, and a Polaroid. The other pictures I've taken have redeye, or weird yellow blanks for eyes. Anybody have any advice on how to take a good picture? Does anybody know if they can do something with this at the photo shop? Thanks in advance, - Ruby Tuesday Try to take the cat at an angle, so the cat isn't looking directly into the lens. If you have a camera with an adjustable flash, aim the flash at the ceiling instead of directly at the cat. Best of all is if you can avoid a fliash. There are a number of software products for removing red eye (some are difficult to learn). There is even a product that I saw at a photo shop, but I have never experimented with it. It is a pen for drawing directly on the photo, and it is made specifically to remove red eye. I have never seen a finished product, so I don't know how practical it is (but it was inexpensive). MaryL Holiday safety tips for cats: http://community-2.webtv.net/getcathelp/holidaysafety/ |
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Avoiding using the flash altogether is the best method, i.e. natural light.
Knowing that's not always possible, there are a couple things you can possibly do to the direct, harsh, raw light of the flash. Most likely, neither the disposable or the Polaroid have any sort of red-eye deterrent so you need to either diffuse the light or redirect it. If the Polaroid's flash is movable you could get it farther away from being on the same axis as the lens and help things a lot. Some of the older ones could rotate the flash head so you could bounce the flash. Anyway, depending on the camera figure out a way to attach (most likely with tape, vinyl electricians works well) some form of light weight, white translucent material. This could be a cut of typing paper, folded to stiffen, or an index card, or the bottom of a styrene cup, or... You're trying to get as large of a light diffusing surface in front of the flash as you can w/o interfering with other camera operation or being in the lens. OR, with a small stiff piece of cardboard or such, tape on some alum. foil then mount the bottom of the flash & angled out 45 so the light is reflected straight up. In this case, you'll be bouncing the light off the ceiling and that becomes your large, light diffusing surface. A lot has to do with the angle of the light to the cat's eyes which is why the bounce technique works well but not every situation can make use of it. The diffuser technique softens the light but more importantly less of it will be going into the eye at an angle that reflects off the back of the retina. Either camera should compensate for the exposure difference I'd think. Maybe you'll get a new digital camera w/ red-eye compensation in a couple weeks. You can certainly fix red eye and the feline equivalent in Photoshop the program, but there's no button or plug-in that does it automagically. There might be some other software packages that do though. Hope this is of some help. M. "Ruby Tuesday" wrote in message ... I've tried again to take Mico's picture, and so far only one out of about 10 shows him with his gorgeous blue eyes. I've used a disposable camera, and a Polaroid. The other pictures I've taken have redeye, or weird yellow blanks for eyes. Anybody have any advice on how to take a good picture? Does anybody know if they can do something with this at the photo shop? Thanks in advance, - Ruby Tuesday |
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"Ruby Tuesday" wrote in message
... I've tried again to take Mico's picture, and so far only one out of about 10 shows him with his gorgeous blue eyes. I've used a disposable camera, and a Polaroid. The other pictures I've taken have redeye, or weird yellow blanks for eyes. Anybody have any advice on how to take a good picture? Does anybody know if they can do something with this at the photo shop? Thanks in advance, - Ruby Tuesday If you have Adobe Photoshop, or other similar programs, you can get rid of the red eye thing. Higher-end photo shops which specialize in digital prints may be able to get rid of for you if you can digitize the print first (just scan it in and save it to disk). It's not cheap, though. rona -- ***For e-mail, replace .com with .ca Sorry for the inconvenience!*** "[America] is filled with people who decided not to live in Europe. We had people who really wanted to live in Europe, but didn't have the energy to go back. We call them Canadians." ---Grover Norquist in Newsweek, November 22, 2004 |
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MaryL,
I know what you're talking about--the red-eye "marker." I bought one and tried it on cat eyes. It only turned them an eerie green. I think it's only meant for human eyes. But it was less than $5. Rene |
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For those a bit adventurous, here's a simply tutorial on fixing red-eye that's applicable to many software paint programs. Work's well on non human eye colors too.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/librar...n-psredeye.htm M. |
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"Ma3rk" wrote in message ... For those a bit adventurous, here's a simply tutorial on fixing red-eye that's applicable to many software paint programs. Work's well on non human eye colors too. http://graphicssoft.about.com/librar...n-psredeye.htm M. Thanks! I have PhotoShop Elements and a couple of "easy" programs, so I'm going to try this. MaryL |
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"Rene S" wrote in message oups.com... I've always had good luck taking a picture where the cat is *not* looking into the camera. Try to snap the photo when he's looking slightly to the side or up. That way, the flash won't reflect off of his eyes. Another idea is to use the "red eye" feature that some cameras have, where the flash goes off twice. The only trouble I've had with this is that there's often a hesitation between flashes and kitty moves, so you don't always get the shot you want. Rene Another tip as used by the professionals is either to use bounce flash pointing upwards or, if stuck with a fixed disposable, mute the flash with a strip of surgical gauze as it is the photochromatic spectrum, not the intensity, which causes redeye. Icedog. |
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"icedog" wrote in message ... "Rene S" wrote in message oups.com... I've always had good luck taking a picture where the cat is *not* looking into the camera. Try to snap the photo when he's looking slightly to the side or up. That way, the flash won't reflect off of his eyes. Another idea is to use the "red eye" feature that some cameras have, where the flash goes off twice. The only trouble I've had with this is that there's often a hesitation between flashes and kitty moves, so you don't always get the shot you want. Rene Another tip as used by the professionals is either to use bounce flash pointing upwards or, if stuck with a fixed disposable, mute the flash with a strip of surgical gauze as it is the photochromatic spectrum, not the intensity, which causes redeye. Icedog. Hmmm. Interesting. I just might try that. Thanks. - Ruby Tuesday |
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