I Have A 6 Mega Pixel Samsung Digital Camera. My Problem Is, Every Time I Take Pictures, There Are Round Small Lights That Appear In My Picture. It's Destroying My Shots. How Can I Get Rid Of Them?

Where does the red spot appear? Is it in the eye of the person in the photograph? If so, here is some information that will help. What you are describing is called the red eye effect. You can minimize this effect by the technique called red eye reduction. There are quite a few factors that cause the red eye effect. Ensuring that you take care of all these factors will ensure the red eye effect is gone from any future photographs you take. One way to ensure minimal or zero red eye effect is to shoot the photographs in bright light. The brighter the light, the lesser the chances of the red eye appearing. Another factor causing the red eye is the distance between the flash and the lens. A larger distance between the two causes lesser red eye. In that sense, it is a really good idea to use a camera that does not have a built-in flash. The red eye is more prominently seen in kids. This is because the red eye basically appears because low light levels cause a person's eyes to widen to allow more light to get in. In kids, the retina is wider, and hence they have more red eye appearing than adults.

Another way to reduce the red eye is to use a camera that has the red eye reduction feature. This will not make the red eye go away, as is apparent from the name itself. Another way is to touch up the photograph after it has been taken using specific software such as Photoshop. PhotoShop has a feature that allows you to edit a photograph for the red eye.

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If those lights are white resembling snow flakes falling, of varying sizes, and do not appear in the same locations in different pictures, AND they only show up in indoor pictures AND only when you use your built-in flash, then I suspect they are caused by dust particles reflecting light from your flash back into your camera lens. This is a very common phenonmenon, particularly in colder climate.

Solution: Make sure there is enough room light to minimize the dominance of your flash (this also helps to reduce red-eye problem); use flash off the camera; keep a more humid environment and try to minimize people moving around, and to turn off the fan or heater blower, before a picture session. Or, just go outdoors or move to a larger room.
Good luck.

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