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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  Hm. That certainly seems like a comprehensive explanation of eye color in the flash, but it doesn't address the fact that yorkie eyes can look green OR orange in the flash. This is not just Thor, I've seen other people post that their yorkie's eye color looks different in different pictures.
Thor's eyes do have a greenish cast to them - on very enlarged pictures with a flash, I can see that they are a deep brownish-green. However, he can definitely have "red eye" or "green eye" in the flash. |
Note where it says, " You can watch Yorkies, clipped down or in full coat, outside in the sunshine ... and you can easily separate them into two groups - those with a "blue cast" to the coat, and those with a "gold cast" to the coat."
And:
"The reddish color that you see in human eyes is the
reflection of the blood vessels in the back of the eye because the tapetum is NOT colored. This is the same in the "red eye" of the Yorkie."
I think the orange would come from a "gold" cast to the coat mixed in with the red of the blood vessels.
Our camera has one of those double flashes, and if Joey doesn't move between the first and second flash, the eye shine isn't noticeable. Also, if I use additional lighting, spotlights, for example, I don't get the bright green, but more of a deeper green, or brown. The eye shine is caused from a reflection of the flash.