rosarioc62 Loc: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

How can I stop eyes being closed in photos?

Pistnbroke Loc: UK

EPLS....You set your camera to 2 FPS and take 2 or three shots . The first click will induce the blink and you get a good one on the second or third. Also avoids tongue twitchers. ie those who lick there lips when having photo taken . Some people will watch your shutter finger and blink when it moves but I dont know how to hide it !! After thousands of weddings at about 1500 shots/wedding its very rare to have an unusable photo using this method.

Pixeldawg Loc: Suzhou, China

This is one of those things that every photographer has had to deal with at one point or another. If it is a posed group, ask everyone to close their eyes and tell them to open and shoot. If it is one or two people, ask them if they saw the flash go off. If they say no, eyes closed. These are the two I used for many years as a newspaper photographer and they generally worked well. The more simple, the better.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

For one person-- easy.. for a group... not easy. Perhaps asking everyone to close their eyes and open them on signal "open" ... people will blink it is natural so take the opposite "close your eyes and open when I say open.

Taking several shots as in HDR but with close to 0 exposure range gives source for cloning in eyes that were shut. While 4K burst will work, the pix are significantly reduced, but for many photos 8 mpix is OK.

When I and the students were in a 9th-grade algebra class .. fist period... I told a few who were perpetually dozing to have their eyelids tattooed with the appearance of opened eyes.

John Sh Loc: Toronto, Australia

I always tell the subjects to "look intelligent" then fire off two or three rapid shots.

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

Tattooed eyelids... that sounds like the Three Stooges! LoL

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Most of today's flash units can operate FAST. That said, you can still get blinks.
When I did professional wedding photography I would say this before each shot, " I will count to three, on one, get ready , make sure you are looking at me, on two a nice smile, on three your responsible for what you look like." Never had two many blinks when I said that.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Have everyone close their eyes. On the count of three have them open them. Burst shooting.
Edit. I just read billnikon same suggestion, with more detail

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Super glue.

You can't, but you can take several pictures, and at least one will have open eyes.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I tell people I'm going to shoot on "four." They are to close their eyes on 2, open them on 3 and wait for the 4. Since I don't SAY "4", they keep their eyes open, waiting, and I can usually fire off 2-3 shots with all eyes open.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

lev29 Loc: Born and living in MA.

In this age of digital photography, all one needs to do is BRACKETING by time, not by exposure or focal point.

Also, you forgot to proofread the title of your topic. I believe the two additional words that your mind is inserting are "eyes from". As it stands, I thought your photography might have been suffering from some wide angle lens effect; who knows what others thought.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

From the title I had no idea what it was regarding...

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Yes, I have noticed the eyes closing in anticipation of....
My solution was a remote shutter release (cable) and keep my hand holding the release out of view of the subject(s): behind the camera, in my pocket....

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

This will probably not be an option with some P&S cameras, but when I shoot a group with a speedlight, I use the highest ISO setting consistent with a reasonably low noise image. I then set the camera to high speed burst and take 3-4 shots in a burst. Using a high ISO setting allows the speedlight to loaf along at low power, making it possible to get several flashes on a single charge.

A flash actually puts out two flashes. The first one is a low intensity flash that is used by the camera to determine the exposure. After that, the mirror goes up and the shutter opens and the main flash fires at the power level determined by the camera. These two flashes are close together in time so you usually don't notice that there are two. However, they are far enough apart that people who normally blink at a flash have time to close their eyes in response to the pre-flash, so when the photo is actually taken, their eyes are closed.

People recover from that reflex, so by taking a burst of 3-4 shots, I get a photo with everyone's eyes open on the second or third shot. In extreme cases, there are people who are slow to blink, so they blink on the later flash. The people who blink late are a different set of people than the people who blink early. The advantage of doing this in a burst is that (1) the group doesn't move significantly during the burst; (2) the background doesn't change significantly during the burst. That means that if I have eyes closed in both the early and late shots, I can swap heads in Photoshop to replace the closed eyes with open eyes. It doesn't usually come to that, but it has happened.