LR 4 Pet's Eyes

Can someone explain, give me a hint, or provide a link for the following: I have a picture of my two dogs where they were looking at the camera when the flash went off. Their eyes aren't red, but almost a glowing golden/off white color. I've tried using the brush, but can't get the center of the eye dark enough because it's so bright. It won't let me use the red eye because it doesn't detect red eye. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Randall

Use two brushes, one inside the other, for the iris and pupil. For the iris, set Saturation to -100 and select the color you want from the Color box, adjust Exposure. For the pupil, Saturation at -100 and Exposure -100.

Thanks.
The iris is good in the original photo, it was the pupil that was the reflective color. Tried working the pupil as you suggested, but still can't get it dark enough
Randall

Randall, it sounds like a "catch light", the flash reflecting directly off the eye at the pupil. You may not be able to "remove" it in Lightroom unless you find a way of using the Clone/Spot Removal tool and selecting a dark area in the image, then maybe brushing that area to darken it even more.

In the future, you'll want to experiment with flash options to get more control of that type of thing. Did you use the pop-up flash? If so, then I'd suggest as a first step getting a SpeedLite so that you can tilt the head up and use "bounce" flash to soften the effects...

Tony,
Thanks. I may just have to make do with the picture. Yes it was a pop up flash. I know not so good. A speedlite is on my list along with some other lenses.
Thanks again,
Randall

TRACER wrote in post #14654068
Tony,
Thanks. I may just have to make do with the picture. Yes it was a pop up flash. I know not so good. A speedlite is on my list along with some other lenses.
Thanks again,
Randall

Well, not surprising then! With the pop-up flash you will struggle with that type of thing as well as redeye, and will also have to deal with the flash "glare" problem -- hot "spots" on your subjects.

One thing that can be good (until you get a SpeedLite) is to dial down the Flash Exposure Compensation, which lowers the power of the flash until it is only providing "a bit of fill". Keep the shutter slow enough to allow a bit of "ambient" light so the result doesn't have that "snapshot" look (with a real dark background.

One other thing you can play with that I've seen good results from is a "bouncing thing" that you put in front of your flash head and angle up a bit. This could be something like tin foil that you attach to the body or even a stainless steel table spoon that you just hold in front of the flash head, with the concave side pointed toward the flash head and tilted back to that the light bounces off the ceiling, providing a "soft light" for your subject(s). It's not quite as good as using either a SpeedLite or an external flash, diffusers, etc, but I've been impressed with the results I've seen posted!

Stuff to play with!