Sensitive Eyes? Solutions for Photoshoots with Flash

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the challenges faced by individuals with sensitive eyes during photoshoots involving flash photography. Participants share personal experiences and suggest various potential solutions to avoid having their eyes closed in photographs.

Discussion Character

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  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants note that the reaction of closing eyes may be involuntary and linked to being startled by the flash.
  • One participant suggests wearing sunglasses and closing eyes as a possible solution, while questioning the effectiveness without sunglasses.
  • A humorous suggestion is made about using crazy glue to keep eyes open.
  • Technical advice is offered regarding camera settings, such as lowering exposure time and adjusting f-stop, to mitigate the reflex response.
  • Some cameras have a red-eye reduction feature that may cause an initial flash, which some participants argue could be avoided by disabling this feature.
  • One participant proposes shining a flashlight in the eyes just before the photo is taken to reduce the surprise of the camera flash.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of personal experiences and suggestions, but there is no consensus on a single effective solution. Multiple competing views and methods are presented without resolution.

Contextual Notes

Some suggestions depend on individual reactions to flash photography and may not be universally applicable. The effectiveness of technical adjustments to camera settings is also not established.

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Whenever I have my picture taken, the flash of the camera blinds me. I close my eyes as a result (involuntarily) and come out with the eyes closed in the photograph while other people in the same picture maintain open eyes. This happens all the time.

Is there any way to help this situation?
 
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It might also be a reaction to being startled.
 
Welcome to my club! My family has many photos of me, from the time I was very little, with my eyes closed.
 
wear sun glasses and close your eyes?
 
Evo said:
It might also be a reaction to being startled.

I usually try to smile when posing.

hypatia said:
Welcome to my club! My family has many photos of me, from the time I was very little, with my eyes closed.

what did you do about it?

tim_lou said:
wear sun glasses and close your eyes?

what about without the sun glasses?
 
You could crazy glue your eyes open.
 
The picture is supposed to be taken the exact instant there is a flash, so your eye muscle reflexes must be extreme. Try lowering exposure time on the camera, and in the same time decreasing (or was it increasing?) f-stop.
 
Happens to me too. Takes me ages to get a picture of me without my eyes closed if I'm doing it myself so its nothing to do with startling with me. I don't know if there is much that can be done.
 
some cameras have a redeye reducer that sends out a flash just before the photo flash. it makes your eyeballs jump.
 
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Just tell people to shut off red eye reduction so that there's only one flash.
 
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Shine a flashlight in your eyes moments before the photo is taken. Then the camera flash should not be such a surprise to your retinae.
 

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