I'm very new to photography so this might sound like a dumb question. I am wondering how to keep from getting raccoon looking eyes in pictures. I have been able to fix this with my indoor photos by adding more light into the room. I'm wondering if I can do anything out in the bright sunlight? My daughter was playing in the yard today and I took hundreds of photos. The only ones that she has dark eyes are the few I took when she was sitting on a rock playing with a stick and some moss. I love this photo because she was having so much fun playing with this moss. I wish her eyes didn't look so dark. This is her new favorite place. She named it her thinking rock. I'd love to learn how to take a better photo for the next time I see her playing on this rock. Would shooting from another direction or a different time of day help this? Is it my camera settings? Is it the hat on her head that caused her dark eyes? I had a very hard time setting my camera today because she was in and out of shade and running I couldn't keep up with her. I was so careful with my settings earlier in the day but this picture and my 365 for the day are both pictures I took very late in the day and wasn't keeping an eye on my camera settings like I should have.
You could use a fill flash while outside also. It works really well. Additionally, if you are using photoshop, try image>adjustments>shadow/highlights. The default is really strong, so you will want to adjust it, but it may also do the trick for ya.
@cdford Thanks Cindy! A flash and photoshop on my list of things to buy in the next few months so I guess I have to live with this for now. I was in very bright light to very dark shade from sunrise to sunset and for some reason the only photos that this happened are the photos of her sitting on this rock late in the day (close to sunset).
I used the flash on my camera for some snow pictures this winter but I had to be almost in my child's face to get it to work nice. That wouldn't work for this picture because she is up high on a rock and lots of picker bushes are down below it. Thanks for giving me all the advice I feel good knowing in a month or two I'll have a flash and photoshop to work with my dark eye problems.
@tmoore Thanks Teri! You made my night by saying you want her hat! I made that hat. :-) They are very easy to sew. The coat and jeans she has on took me longer to make than the hat. Sewing comes easier to me than photography... BUT I'm not going to give up on my camera!
@schoolnsuch Wow! You made that hat?? I love hats and it is just beautiful! I love the coat too! I have trouble sewing a button, so that will not be something I ever try, but you certainly have a talent! Do not give up on the camera!! You take some great pictures too!
or a reflector to get some light into those eyes... but fill flash works too... if you don't want someone following you around with a giant white sheet of cloth on a hoop.
@icywarm Thanks!! I can do this! I have hula hoops and white fabric. I like to sew so that would be easy to DIY a small reflector. I have a 11 year old son who can follow me around when I'm taking photos of my younger girls (he's a very helpful child). I'll make up a reflector tomorrow. Thanks for the help!
that is perfect... I don't believe in paying PA's anyways... so using your child as one seems perfect... lets see my guy is 2.5 months... maybe I could lean a reflector against him... I already tried using him as a second shooter, but everytime he head butted the trigger release he'd cause the image to blur from camera shake... sigh... :)
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I used the flash on my camera for some snow pictures this winter but I had to be almost in my child's face to get it to work nice. That wouldn't work for this picture because she is up high on a rock and lots of picker bushes are down below it. Thanks for giving me all the advice I feel good knowing in a month or two I'll have a flash and photoshop to work with my dark eye problems.