orange eyes with my canon digital cam
 

what am i doing wrong .. how come the eyes are reflecting orange?

take your sun glasses off

Do you mean red-eye or something else?

Are the shots inside or outside, flash or no flash?

The demons of hell have chosen your soul as their domain.

Sorry man.

Post an example, I can't quite understand what the symptoms are from the description.

It is a lighting issue, the light is reflecting off of the back of the eyeball and causing red eye. Happens alot with people with light colored eyes, fix your lighting arrangements.

what he said.

See my post.

Assuming you do not have a light set up, try putting your cameras flash on a time delay or rapid flash (whatever the fuck they call it, I use real lights).

well they have orange beams of light coming out of the front to assist the focus in low light levels. i thought maybe that is doing it and there is a way to fix it.. but i'll just have to use more light.. these are not professional snaps.. just everyday pics

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*

That orange light is not your problem. Your seeing that because it's too dark to take the picture and the camera needs help in focusing. You are shooting in dark situations and that is why you are getting red-eye.

Dean*

thanks.. i'll make sure i use more light

Also, strobe lights are good. Its my next investment :-)

If the flash is too close to the shutter, it can cause this. I get horrible red eye in my photos. A slave stobe set up next to the camera can help.

true, it is not only the proximity of the light source to the lense, but also the angle.

shooting in low light is good because it allows the model's pupils to open, giving a more glamour look which is good for erotica.

this is how they photograph fashion models, victoria secret, etc.

they photograph in subdued light mostly to get the model's pupils to open naturally, then capture the look with bounced light at various angles.

using a consumer digicam with on-camera flash is just about the worst---if you must use that camera take a small piece of exposed color neg film and tape it over the flash head to block most of the light---then use a slave patched into a bounce light source like an umbrella light and you can make a cheap digicam create some pleasing web photos.

but you should bounce the light, particularly on the face.

http://girls-of-bangkok.com/gob10.jpg

Good thread. I can now take some holiday photo's without having big red eyes!!