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Strange Outline
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Fill flash, strong natural light from the right,
No postprocessing, except for crop.
Any ideas on how I got the bright outline on the chair? How to remove? (I have Lightroom 3 and Elements 8)
thanx,
Looks like camera shake to me, if you look closely it is like a double exposure
you can see the crease in the cushion on her nose, and the line you mention on
the chair is actually the shape of the chair??Jenny,
That’s a great observation. I looked at the untouched raw file. I can see the line on her nose and the edge of the chair, but I don’t see double exposure like stuff anywhere else. No area is very sharp, but I didn’t know that camera shake could effect just some parts of an image.
Can you point me at something that explains how this can happen.
Exposure 1/4 sec at f / 5.6
Focal Length 90 mm
Focal Length 35mm 135 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
ISO Speed Rating ISO 200
Flash Did fire
Exposure Program Normal
Metering Mode Pattern
Make NIKON CORPORATION
Model NIKON D300
Lens 18.0-105.0 mm f/3.5Hi Ted.
I’m not convinced that it is a double exposure that has caused this outline, as you have said, you don’t see double exposure stuff anywhere else. I would be of the opinion that it is caused by the lighting (possibly reflecting on the lens elements) as you had strong natural light coming from the right. The use of a lens hood should solve this during shooting, but I don’t know how to fix it afterwards.ps. Just noticed that the flash did fire, this could also have caused it, especially if shooting handheld with a slow exposure time.
You did use a slow shutter, in general you would need to use say for 90mm
focal length then a shutter speed of at least 1/90th second, if you look at the
shot there is the outline of her hair on the dark sleeve of her jumper as well
though the doubling up only occurs on the right hand side of the shot, which
just seemed more like camera shake to me, but I agree it is strange that it only
seems to be one side of the shot.Thanx for the great replies.
I looked at the full res again and think that miki is probably right. The doubling is only where the bright natural light would have interacted with the flash.
Jenny caught me doing bad. I was trying to use the ambiant light and fill flash. i knew the shot would be soft.
I was using the standard Nikon hood but you don’t see the large burnt out piece in the full image.
thanx, I think I now understand what I did wrong. Next time I’ll try bumping up ISO and take the noise trade off. In smaller prints the noise might give the same soft feel.
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