Use Digital Cameras to Click Great Pictures and Reduce the Red-eye Effect

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Nowadays it's easy to take photographs and videos, thanks to digital cameras. Photographs speak louder than words. Yes, they do and this is why social networking sites are filled with photographs along with tags and comments. All a person needs to do to start a discussion or a spree of comments is to post a picture. The story behind it along with the made-up stories soon flood the comment section and makes it a fun place for friends to tease each other. But a picture is not fun when there is a red eye effect. This article will talk about what causes the red eye and how to avoid it.

Red eye is generally caused at night or in the evening because our pupils are more dilated and this in turn makes our eyes a better reflecting surface for the flash. If the digital cameras are smaller in size, there's more chance of getting red eyes because the flash is closer to the lens. So what happens is that the light reflected from your eyes is easily captured by the lens that is almost at the same angle as the flash.

Many cameras have built-in functions that cause the camera to flash several times before taking a photograph thereby reducing the pupil size just before the shot. If your camera doesn't have this feature, you can look for an option in the menu and see if you have the red eye on or off feature. To avoid red eye, you can set it to on.