Anita Saunders
New member
I wonder if anyone has any ideas on what may have caused an unwanted effect during a shoot recently?
I was using a Canon 100mm macro on a Canon 5D, with two flashes (one through a softbox and another for fill).
The phenomena I found in the resulting photos was a dark gradient shadow the full length of one of the long edges of the photo. It was on the left side when shooting portrait format, yet on the bottom edge if shooting landscape format. Moving lights closer, further, left or right etc did not make any difference whatsoever to the effect.
The strange thing is, this effect did not occur when shooting earlier and later, after this particular shoot, with the same cam & lens but different exposure settings.
Examples are below, with the church pic taken a few hours earlier. Pics are straight conversions from RAW to jpeg without any edit other than resize for web.
Can anybody explain this?
I was using a Canon 100mm macro on a Canon 5D, with two flashes (one through a softbox and another for fill).
The phenomena I found in the resulting photos was a dark gradient shadow the full length of one of the long edges of the photo. It was on the left side when shooting portrait format, yet on the bottom edge if shooting landscape format. Moving lights closer, further, left or right etc did not make any difference whatsoever to the effect.
The strange thing is, this effect did not occur when shooting earlier and later, after this particular shoot, with the same cam & lens but different exposure settings.
Examples are below, with the church pic taken a few hours earlier. Pics are straight conversions from RAW to jpeg without any edit other than resize for web.
Can anybody explain this?