How to avoid or reduce red-eye

Written by Jakob Jelling


Photography withrepparttar aid of a digital camera is beyond doubt very fascinating. However, it also has many a nooks thatrepparttar 116121 users ofrepparttar 116122 digital camera must be aware of and also must be well educated to deal with in order to produce good photographs worthrepparttar 116123 most prized digital camera. Such a concept is that ofrepparttar 116124 red eye! In order to understand what this red eye actually is, a little detailed introspection is necessary. Basically speaking red-eye is a function of at least three things, they are firstly, ambient level of light because stumpy light level causesrepparttar 116125 retina ofrepparttar 116126 person to be photographed to open wider to admit more light thereby divulging openrepparttar 116127 iris, which isrepparttar 116128 primary part that reflectsrepparttar 116129 red light hence givingrepparttar 116130 appearance of red eyes forrepparttar 116131 subjects. Also secondlyrepparttar 116132 youngerrepparttar 116133 person being photographedrepparttar 116134 wider remainsrepparttar 116135 retina and hencerepparttar 116136 greaterrepparttar 116137 effect of red eye inrepparttar 116138 picture. Thirdly,repparttar 116139 reflection angle ofrepparttar 116140 flash plays a vital role, asrepparttar 116141 light is recoiled back torepparttar 116142 digital camera andrepparttar 116143 closerrepparttar 116144 incident light beam is to this reflected light beam,repparttar 116145 greater becomesrepparttar 116146 red eye effect. To prevent this instruments such as flash brackets are useful to makerepparttar 116147 flash a bit removed fromrepparttar 116148 propinquity ofrepparttar 116149 lens. Thusrepparttar 116150 red eye effect is somewhat revealed till this part of this discussion. Now isrepparttar 116151 time to look into a greater detail in order to analyzerepparttar 116152 various aspects ofrepparttar 116153 red eye effect and also find out ways of reducingrepparttar 116154 problem as far as possible.

It can be noted here thatrepparttar 116155 only important thing is thatrepparttar 116156 users must ensure thatrepparttar 116157 proper fixing ofrepparttar 116158 angle betweenrepparttar 116159 flash beam andrepparttar 116160 lens axis. The general rule here is thatrepparttar 116161 photographer must keeprepparttar 116162 angle wide enough thatrepparttar 116163 light beam fromrepparttar 116164 flash does not reflect offrepparttar 116165 retina ofrepparttar 116166 person being photographed and comes right back intorepparttar 116167 digital camera lens. A good idea is to makerepparttar 116168 red-eye reduction work by makingrepparttar 116169 flash shine a light intorepparttar 116170 eyes ofrepparttar 116171 person being photographed just beforerepparttar 116172 flash is incident andrepparttar 116173 shutter is pressed. This causesrepparttar 116174 irises inrepparttar 116175 eyes ofrepparttar 116176 person being photographed to narrow down or shrink. As a result of thisrepparttar 116177 eye develops a smaller opening forrepparttar 116178 eye view ofrepparttar 116179 digital camera and does not show offrepparttar 116180 blood filled retina. This light is called pre light! And very importantly this process works only ifrepparttar 116181 person to be photographed is in point of fact looking directly atrepparttar 116182 flash forrepparttar 116183 pre-light to come.

Exposure compensation

Written by Jakob Jelling


The digital camera is in reality a great possession with many facets of its utilities and not only that knowing these utilities makesrepparttar understandingrepparttar 116120 digital camera complete. The utilities are also so very diverse that they too offer further introspection of details in their varying applications. Such an area is digital camera exposure compensation. Only knowledge of digital camera exposure is not enough, sorepparttar 116121 digital camera exposure compensation requires some amount of exposure in itself! This discussion is focused towards that cause itself.

Looking at different digital cameras, even temperately costing digital cameras have arrangements for exposure compensation settings. To explain in a bit detail,repparttar 116122 exposure compensation allowsrepparttar 116123 users to controlrepparttar 116124 amount of light enteringrepparttar 116125 lens. And therebyrepparttar 116126 illumination ofrepparttar 116127 photograph is decided. Exposure compensation can be altered manually or byrepparttar 116128 help of a digital camera's exposure compensation setting that lets one overriderepparttar 116129 metered exposure set insiderepparttar 116130 digital camera itself. Strictly speaking,repparttar 116131 exposure values provide an expedient line of attack to put a figure onrepparttar 116132 available light intensity and therefore exposure.

As per general norms ofrepparttar 116133 users of digital cameras, certain standards exist for selecting such values. These values are specifically known as Exposure Values (EV). Selecting an up to standard Exposure Values (EV) helps maintainrepparttar 116134 details contained in dark areas of a photo, or diminishrepparttar 116135 more than usually bright areas. Again, looking from technical point of view,repparttar 116136 Exposure Values are numbers that refer to an assortment of combinations of apertures of lenses and shutter speed respectively. They have a selective range of values, ranging between -2 to +2 Exposure Values (EV). As a general rule positive exposure settings are used for cases where bulky areas of a scene are especially bright such as taking pictures of a snow scene and also during times of photographing whenrepparttar 116137 background is a good deal brighter thanrepparttar 116138 focal area under consideration. Also, negative exposure settings are used for cases where bulky areas of a scene are especially dark and also during times of photographing whenrepparttar 116139 background is a good deal darker thanrepparttar 116140 fore area under consideration.

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