Halo/Shadowing Issue

gsxturbo · Jul 29, 2012

My wife wanted me to snap a few photos of her with her Bills Jersey tonight. I bought the 7000 a few days ago and in a few of these photos I see some shadows/halo effect that don't seem naturally there from the lighting, these ones they are down off her legs. Any idea what it maybe?

Big Mike · Jul 30, 2012

I see what you mean. My first thought is that it's a shadow of some sort...did you have a flash mounted on the camera? That looks about the right spot for a shadow cast by an on-camera flash if you were shooting in portrait orientation.

gsxturbo · Jul 30, 2012

Yes I did have it on but I had it dialed down -1.0 I took some at regular power and then +1.0 and they all came out the same way.

480sparky · Jul 30, 2012

I'd say it's the on-cam flash as well. How far down can you dial it?

I'm assuming you're using it to fire off-camera strobes.

Big Mike · Jul 30, 2012

gsxturbo said:
Yes I did have it on but I had it dialed down -1.0 I took some at regular power and then +1.0 and they all came out the same way.

Well, I'd say that is certainly your problem then.

If you are just using it to trigger off-camera flashes, then get a radio trigger set.
If you are using a Canon/Nikon wireless system, you can probably set the on-camera master 'not to fire', but it should still trigger the remote units.

gsxturbo · Jul 31, 2012

Yes i had it set for -1.0, I'm gonna do some playing around tonight to see if that's the problem.

Tony S · Aug 1, 2012

If you are using it to optically fire other strobes it's going to read the scene before the strobes fire off, that means it's going to be trying to light the subject by itself in the darker light. Even at -1.0 it's still going to be pretty much full power for the on camera light. So that's why it still shows up pretty strong with your other lights. If it's not the built in one, then set it manually at a low power instead of with a compensation adjustment based on it reading the exposure and adjust it as needed from there.