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How to get rid of glowing eyes in animal pictures?

why is it when you take pictures of animals like cats and dogs you get these glowing eyeballs? i want to take some semi-professinal pics of animals but i dont want the "glowing" eyes.how do you keep that from happening? it's not red eye.these eyes are a glowing bright white or gold like color,completly unatural looking,when i turn the flash off they dont do it but the picture always has a yellow cast to it.

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1. take the pics in a bright lit room, and use no flash on camera! it works every time..
2. Are you talking about red eye? I think not using flash works. But if you still get it, whenever you go to get your pictures processed most all stores have an option where you can remove it, and a lot of picture editors on computers have an option like that, too.
3. Don't use the on-camera flash.
4. Turn your flash OFF.
5. You can alter the photos in an editing program such as GIMP or Photoshop, PhotoshopLE. There is the red-eye filter with varying degrees of success. Some cameras have red-eye setting which flashes the flash instead of a burst of light. And, for the yellow-cast in a natural light, my camera has settings for fluorescent (Eurpean or American electric) or indacesent lights (light bulbs) -- and it is a cheap camera. ;) Otherwise, again, the editing software can color correct. I would further mention, the quality of of photos was always accomplished in the darkroom since photography began.
6. Red eye, or in the case of animals green eye, occurs when the flash is too close to the lens.This is common when using the built in flash on cameras. That is the reason for using an external flash on a flash bracket, which lifts the flash up higher. Example off camera flash - http://www.flickr.com/photos/perki88/389110096/ Also, try working with natural light -http://www.flickr.com/photos/perki88/2238771652/
7. It is the same effect as red eye in people, but the color is different because of the coatings on the back of the animals' eyes...or it is the result of the light being prismatically broken up by the lens of the animals' eyes. Either way, the cure is the same...put your lights higher up, and more to the side, to keep them from shining into / onto the animals' eyes so directly. Also, if using a flash on the camera, stop. Get a flash bracket-such as a Stroboframe-to put the flash further above the lens axis, and then diffuse the flash light by placing a hanky over the flash head, and holding it there with a rubber band. One, or two, layers of hanky over the flash head would be good. This is a cheap fix, and softens the light hitting the subject. A costlier fix would be to forget all flashes,and set up some continuous lighting, and place it high up and to the side...about 45 degrees from the area you plan to shoot.