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12/25/2007 09:47:41 PM · #1 |
Hello,
I took a family photo at my MIL's last night and there are 2 major issues...one I can work around with a crop and a vignette but I'm not exactly sure what causes it. It only happens when I use my wide angle lens but not each time I use it. In this photo I used my onboard flash with no slave.
The other problem which I can't seem to figure out a workable solution is the face of the two girls in front is much lighter than the others. This was caused from being to close to the camera as there was not enough room to properly space the group away from the flash. I've tried a midtones burn set to 10% but it seems to only give a reddish tone and makes the girl on the left look like rudolph.
Can anyone give me some tips on how to tone the brightness down so they blend with the rest of the family.
This is straight off the camera with no editing. //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=625753
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 21:51:10. |
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12/25/2007 09:59:25 PM · #2 |
First, did you have the lens hood on your camera when you used the on camera flash? Wide angle lenses with hoods and on camera flashes don't always work well together.
Second, have you tried  idnic's tutorial Move The Light? It is a useful tool to learn especially for advanced challenges.
Tim
Edit: I spell like an engineer.
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 22:01:44. |
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12/25/2007 09:59:29 PM · #3 |
The shadow on the bottom was probably caused by the lens hood on the wide angle lens- or the lens itself if you took it off. Since it is not every time, I would guess hood blocking part of the flash.
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12/25/2007 10:01:02 PM · #4 |
| I believe that is actually where your lense gets in thw way of you r flash and shades the area from the flash, I got that when I tried a wide angle macro shot, the lense actually shaded about half the frame. |
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12/25/2007 11:03:21 PM · #5 |
As has been mentioned, the curved shape of the shadow pretty conclusively shows that it is the lens/hood blocking the on-board flash.
As for adjusting for the difference in exposure between the nearer and farther subjects, you might try a Curves adjustment through a graduated mask, so that the effect is applied to only part of the photo, similar to shooting through a graduated ND filter, something along this line (a quick adjustment just to show the effect):
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12/26/2007 08:22:27 AM · #6 |
Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll have more time to work on the photo thjis afternoon and will post my results.
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