Why do people with Blue eyes always have red-eyes in photos?

Question

I have blue eyes, and it's beginning to annoy me that they always turn red! Most of my friends have brown eyes, and they never look like the terminator in their pictures.

For those of you who don't have blue eyes, and don't understand how annoying it is, imagine if every time your picture was taken, a huge gust of wind blew and your hair was always messed up, or your eyes are always shut in every picture, no matter what you do. Ya, it's that annoying.

And, how come blue shirts don't turn red? Or the sky? or blue panes of glass, or the ocean... Why just eyes?? It almost seems like a conspiracy!! (just being funny about the conspiracy part, lol)

Thanks.

Answer 1

Monzerel got it right on the technical reasons of why it happens. It is more prominent in blue eyed people and especially those with blonde hair and very light skin tones.



The easiest solution i found, my entire family has blue eyes and blonde hair, is to get a camera with red eye flash on it. It does a series of small flashes before taking the picture, thus closing off the pupil more and getting less red eye shots.



Or, go look into the light for a few moments and then come back and take the picture, anything that will make the pupil close a bit first. It will help to stop the red eye in pictures.



At least most places can take the red eye out for very little extra money now a days.

Answer 2

People With Red Eyes

Answer 3

Pictures Of Blue Eyes

Answer 4

The red eye in photos is cause by the bright flash. The flash causes a reflection off the retina what you see is the red color from the blood vessels nourishing the eye. Hope that explains a little.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Ha! It's not a conspiracy. And it's not just blue eyed people that get red eye.



The flash is bouncing around in your eyes lighting up the red blood in your retina, magnified by reverse optics of your eye's lens, the camera takes a picture of it.



There's usually a mode for the flash to reduce red eye and that fires two bursts of flash in quick succession. The first causes your pupils to close up so not as much light goes in to light up your eyes from the inside and the picture is taken on the second flash.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Light from the camera's flash jets across the room, penetrates the irises of your comrades at an incredible rate and causes their pupils to attempt to process the unexpected intrusion. The attempt fails and the flash mingles with the numerous blood vessels of the eye and reflects off the retina and back through the vessels to the camera lens, causing your group to look demonic.







When you walk into a low-lit room from being out on a sunny day it appears to be extremely dark because your eyes have not had a chance to adjust. This same concept is at work when the flash of a camera goes off because it doesn't give the eye any time to adjust. The effect is heightened in people with blue eyes because the iris lets more light through.

Answer 9

I have dark brown eyes and mine always turn out red too. Odd.

Answer 10

Its called red eye and applies to all mammals no matter what their eye colour is. It only happens with flash photography.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_effect



Chris

Answer 11

very interesting question