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Originally posted by hyper
what am i doing wrong .. how come the eyes are reflecting orange?
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It comes from shooting pictures in a low-light situation. In low light, the pupil of the eye dialates (pupil gets bigger to let in more light so you can see in low-light). You take a picture of someone in a low-light situation like that and you are actually taking a picture of the back of their eyeball (blood veins) since the pupil is so big.
This problem is worse if your flash is right next to your lens as is the case with point and shoot cameras. You have a couple of solutions. Turn some lights on in the room so the size of the pupils go back down to normal size. Or, take all your pictures outside in the daylight.
Your camera (depending on the model), may have "red-eye reduction". This feature will send out a few pulses of light before the picture is made. These pulses of light will trick the pupil into thinking it is surrounded by bright light and your pupil will drop back down to normal size and then the camera takes your pic. That's basically how that feature works
Dean*