Thread: Taking photos

I use DSLRs that give much more control over photo parameters and have much better quality lenses. As already noted, trying photos without flash has many advantages, but either the cat must be still or the light level high or you need a really expensive "fast lens." One of the great things about digital cameras for photographing pets is that you can take a hundred photos in a few minutes and just discard all but the good ten or so.

The glowing eyes from flash apparently has a name, eyeshine, and can be read about here:
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It is possible to use photo adjustment software to clean it up when it isn't too bad. Unfortunately, automated red-eye tools won't work, so you will have to read about how to do it manually. I have gotten pretty good at fixing this, but it can take 5-10 minutes per photo.

I will include one of the first photos I fixed. Would have been a shame to lose this to eyeshine: