All of a sudden Vignette! Help!

Rebekah5280 · Apr 14, 2012

So I have been taking pictures for a couple years, today (after two outdoor photoshoots), I come back into my studio and all of a sudden I have vignette along the bottom of my photos. I thought maybe it was the on camera screen, but when I tried uploading them I've got it on the actual pictures.

Help! What could be going on with this camera?

gsgary · Apr 14, 2012

Rebekah5280 said:
So I have been taking pictures for a couple years, today (after two outdoor photoshoots), I come back into my studio and all of a sudden I have vignette along the bottom of my photos. I thought maybe it was the on camera screen, but when I tried uploading them I've got it on the actual pictures. Help! What could be going on with this camera?

What camera and lens were you using

Austin Greene · Apr 14, 2012

Are you sure its vignette? or is it possibly something like a syncing problem between flashes and the shutter itself?

cgipson1 · Apr 14, 2012

Post the shots please! With shoot info and a description of what you were doing...

Mot · Apr 14, 2012

Sounds like you're trying to sync too fast with your flashes, like with this shot. Slow your shutter speed down to lower than 1/200 and the problem should go away.

Of course we could be wrong. What camera are you using and were you using flash?

Rebekah5280 · Apr 14, 2012

Here is one of the pictures. This is straight off my camera, no editing/white balance.. I feel naked sharing this... lol But here is my issue.
After reading your answers I'm thinking that it is probably a flash issue. I just added 2 new lights to my set up for my white back drop and took my usual on camera bounce flash and put it behind an umbrella so I don't have to deal with it on my camera anymore.

Here is the rest of the info:
F/8
1/200 (in hindsight, not sure why it was at 1/200)
ISO 200
I've got two speedlights on my white background to completely overexpose it, they are set to slave.
I have another speedight that is diffused off camera for my subject, that is controlled by a wireless remote.

I've never had this issue before and I have worked with at least 1-2 lights per shoot. I'm going to go back through and see what my shutter speed was for my other "troubled" pictures.

As always, thank you all so much for your help!!

Derrel · Apr 14, 2012

I betcha' 1/125 second will solve all of your problems!

cgipson1 · Apr 14, 2012

Rebekah5280 said:
Here is one of the pictures. This is straight off my camera, no editing/white balance.. I feel naked sharing this... lol But here is my issue.
After reading your answers I'm thinking that it is probably a flash issue. I just added 2 new lights to my set up for my white back drop and took my usual on camera bounce flash and put it behind an umbrella so I don't have to deal with it on my camera anymore.
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Here is the rest of the info:
F/8
1/200 (in hindsight, not sure why it was at 1/200)
ISO 200
I've got two speedlights on my white background to completely overexpose it, they are set to slave.
I have another speedight that is diffused off camera for my subject, that is controlled by a wireless remote.

I've never had this issue before and I have worked with at least 1-2 lights per shoot. I'm going to go back through and see what my shutter speed was for my other "troubled" pictures.

As always, thank you all so much for your help!!

What wireless remotes are you using? A lot of the less expensive ones don't sync well at 1/160 and above... like Derrel said, try it at 1/125 or so... slower!