Red Eye (pictures) in just one of the two?!

I take lots of pictures of my boys and I've noticed that pictures of J almost always have the "red eye" but his brother almost never does!
Anyone else experience this problem? What a weird thing--my camera actually has a feature to get rid of it, but I have it enabled and it still doesn't really do it. Thanks!

 

The same thing happens with me. I just figured that it is because Brooke has blue eyes and Hannah has hazel. Brooke's are almost always red, but Hannah's never are.

Melody

 

Both our boys have blue eyes!

 

This happens with us too. I think it is that one baby may be turned a little bit or have her eyes open wider.

 

I've noticed it happens to my pictures as well as 2 of my kids. We all have brown eyes, but the 2 blue eyed family members hardly ever have red eye.

 

My brown eyed boy usually has the red-eye and the blue eyed one doesn't. I tured off the red-eye function on my camera so it would take pics quicker.

 

My kids are all fair so we get quite a lot of red eye . I don't bother with the red eye reduction function on the camera, I just digitally remove any red eye before printing pictures.

You are more likely to get red eye with a blue/green eyes (fair complexion) than with brown, but it can happen with anyone. As I understand it, it is just the flash reflecting on the back of the eye. The idea of a cameras red eye reduction is that by the flash/light blinking quickly before the picture is taken peoples pupils will reduce in size. Smaller pupils=less chance of red eye.