Animal Pics -> Eyes....

[bob332]

just got a new canon s70 and i really like the camera. i have been messing around with it in its full auto state right now. i have taken pics of my animals since they are close and i am having trouble with the eyes. they seem to glow just a little bit, not red, but not true to their actual color. is there something i can do to fix this in one of the more manual modes? or is a limit of a camera with a onboard flash?

also, is the cropping done correctly?

example:
http://psite7.sytes.net:6583/cat.jpg

thanks in advance for your time :)
bob

[Jon]

That's still good old "red-eye", just differs in different animals due to minor differences in their eye structures.

[bob332]

That's still good old "red-eye", just differs in different animals due to minor differences in their eye structures.
anyway to get rid of it? in the camera itself?

[Red]

Don't know the S70 specifically, but if it's the same as my A40 there will be 3 flash modes; On, Off and Red-Eye.

[TheSonofDarwin]

I know there's a plugin for Photoshop CS to remove animal "demon-eyes," though I don't think it'd work in this case. For some reason I don't get them that often - it could be that I have the red-eye thing turned on, or I could just be getting lucky. Yours, if that's what it is, isn't a bad case of it. Usually most of the eye is clouded over. I'm sure with a little post-editing you could fix it up. Something you may want to try, which I use sometimes, is putting a coffee filter or a white piece of paper over the flash and using a rubberband to hold it on. Will diffuse the flash a little.