My Dog Is Scared Of The Flash On My Camera.. What Do I Do?

Hmm... it looks like that red light is for reducing the red eye effect when using the flash. Go through the manual and check for the camera settings. See if you can turn the red eye reduction feature off. There should be a switch to do that some where in the menu. Once that is disabled, it should work like your earlier cameras.

well you must have turn on the red eyed reduction. well you see our eyes absorbs light that is why we can see (well there is bending of light, our brain see a inverted image). to make the story short that is why if we use a flash and our eyes absorb them and it will reflect like a mirror. this creates a problem in photography we see a red eye. so the people in camera business found ways to solve this problem by creating a red eye reduction (the camera sends red light to make our pupils dilate before the actual flash). but they didn't know that animals will be freak out by a red light. sorry about what had happened. i think your pet suffers a trauma and it will be long before the dog can recover, if the dog will recover from that incident. best thing you can do now is pls don't use that camera to her at this point. wait for like months before starting to take photos again with her. lest see it she will recover ok... and to all pet lovers make sure you turn off the red eye reduction of your camera before you point and shoot it to your pets. don't want them to with shock right?

My dog is the exact same way! It didn't even work photographing her without the flash because a focusing light shines so that the autofocus can focus, but the light terrifies her and she runs away! The best thing to do would be to get her over the fear. Keep her on a leash so she can't run away and try to take pictures of her. (It would probably help to have someone else hold the leash, as it can be difficult to hold a leash while photographing the dog!) If she freaks out, don't give her any attention. If you try to pat her and tell her it's ok to calm her down, that just rewards her and reinforces her behavior. It is teaching her that the right thing to do is freak out at the camera. Just keep her on the leash so she can't go anywhere, and keep shooting away. Eventually she will see that the light on the camera isn't hurting her and that there isn't anything to be afraid of. Once she calms down, you can take her off the leash and try photographing her. When she doesn't freak out at the camera and allows you to photograph her, reward her with a lot of praise and attention and maybe even a treat! Also, try photographing her often every day. The more she is exposed to it, the more used to it she will get and the less frightened she will be. If for some reason you need a good quality photo of her immediately and can't wait to train her to get over the fear, try photographing her outside in the daylight. The camera won't need that red light beam to help with the focus, as it should be bright enough to autofocus. Or if you camera has manual focus capabilities, you can manually focus either indoors or out. Manual focus will also stop beams of light from shining and freaking out your dog! Good luck! And hopefully you'll have some great photos of your cute dog to post soon!

aww dont keep the flash active, pics come more nice without flash !

If your dog is really scared about it,its better that you dont use that camera with him.Since he got in his mind that it will hurt him its better that you dont scare him.Good Luck to you.Happy mylotting

Go into the camera's menu and turn off the autofocus assist light and disable red-eye reduction. Turn up the ISO if necessary, and shoot by natural light. Use reflectors if you need a bit more light. Reward the dog with food treats when you have the camera in hand until she looks for the camera instead on looking out for it.