If you are a veteran professional photographer, then you must be well acquainted with the red-eye effect in photography, but if you’re a novice in this creative field of expression, then it’s worth taking a glance at this piece. The red-eye effect in a photograph is the appearance of the pupils of eyes in a red colour. It is mostly seen in the eyes of humans and animals.

This happens when you use a flash extremely close to the camera lens in low light conditions. Because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, the light passes into the eye through the pupil which reflects off the back surface of the eyeball and out through the pupil.

But this effect can be countered in several ways:

• Use bounce flash which would both change the direction of the flash and ensure only diffused light enters the eye.
• Place the flash away from the camera’s optical axis.
• Take pictures without flash by increasing the lens aperture or reducing the shutter speed.
• Increase the ambient lighting in the room so that the subject’s pupils are more contracted.
• Have the subject look at the photographer’s shoulder instead looking straight into the camera.

Well these are only a couple of ways to overcome this hassle. Nowadays many cameras, such as the Kodak EasyShare C913, automatically remove red-eye, and graphic editing software can also be employed after the picture is taken.