Hey guys, :3 Just have a quick question - I've noticed that occasionally when I take shots with my D80 I get what photoshop refers to as "lens viginetting". By that I mean that beautiful black frame around shots. I was wondering if this is some kind of setting on slr cameras or if it's just a "side-effect" of over (or under) compensation of aperture/shutterspeed/iso etc? I really think it looks good and I'm basically just wondering where it comes from xD My only guess is that it must be the camera lens taking in the darkness from the frame of the lens (if that made any sense haha).

Thanks

I don't think I have ever experienced vignetting with my lens but from what I have heard it's quite common among wide angle lenses and at wide open aperture so maybe you could reduce or eliminate that by using a narrower aperture (higher F number)

Ah, yeah. Thing is, I think it's really beautiful xD I love adding it to certain macro shots in photoshop as it gives a sense of completion imo. All pictures deserve some kind of border :3

If you shot raw you can allso remove vignetting from the settings, and yeah it shows more if you shoot with low f-numbers

HEY! stop TELLING us about your photos, POST them! lol geez It's like you are teasing us or something

Heh, yeah I shoot raw + small low-quality jpeg to view it before I decide if it's a keeper or not That's how I edit it ^^ Thanks :3

@Mr.Young - Haha, yeah I know xD I'm just waaaay too tired to connect my camera and all atm ^^ and I was gonna go to bed like an hour ago (it's 2.30am here) I just got stuck on the forum xD Haven't slept very well lately so I thought it would be good to rest out for a change haha.

This post was edited by Nevereon on Dec 26 2008 07:40pm

hehe in case you haven't noticed I think mr Antichrist and Astragony are probably the most professional photographers in this forum and their advice should not be ignored



lmao! It's ok I think I am patient enough to wait another day for you to upload your photos, mr Gab
You are just like me, a night owl, in fact I am leaving for work pretty soon, going to work another night shift here and I just LOVE working during the night.
I haven't really been sleeping very well for some time now and sometimes I only sleep for like 3 hours before I had to go to work but sleeping is just waste of time, right?

This post was edited by Futurama on Dec 26 2008 07:45pm

Hm. Don't recognise astragony (/shame) but I agree with Mr.Antichrist. His shots are awesome :3

Astragony: (From the dictionary) Too professional for this forum. (LOL jks )

Anyways, I like vignetting a lot too! I have no clue how to actually achieve it without editing so I just use CS3 and add it in sometimes.
Tell me if you figure out how to do it though!

heh thanks, but im a total newbie compared to astragony



You need a lens that makes vignetting, allso on a crop sensor you wont see much that since the part that makes vignetting is cut off. Mostly its some really old lenses that makes vignetting enough to be seen on a crop camera

This post was edited by Antichrist- on Dec 26 2008 07:48pm