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How can I prevent my lens hood from causing dark corners?
I'm new to photography and I have a lens hood on my Canon Rebel XT camera/lens. I'm getting these dark corners on some of my photographs. No doubt they're coming from the lens hood.
What am I doing ...
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When is adding vignetting appropriate in post-processing?
Like lens flare, extreme high contrast, and all the other effects that are oh-too-easy to apply in digital post-processing, the vignette effect is overused. So I ask this question in all seriousness, ...
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LR 3: Preset adds dark vignette, but how?
In Lightroom 3, I have some presets (example: whoiswolf_herbst_licht) that seem to darken the edges of the photo. However, I can't figure out how they do this. There is nothing that shows up in the ...
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What's the difference between vignetting and pinhole?
Sometimes people say that a lens has bad vignetting but it looks very similar to the effect of pinhole (darkened edges).
What's the difference?
If someone asked to have a vignetting effect (in PP) ...
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Can I attach more filters to a full frame lens on a cropped body without vignetting than with a cropped lens?
It seems to me that because part of the image the lens is passing to the sensor gets cropped due to sensor size that it would take more vignetting to reach the cropped sensor. Is that right and how ...
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Is having a lens with vignetting a real world negative for portrait lenses?
After reading this answer for another post:
I don't mind the vignetting as it actually improves the look of portraits however if you're doing astrophotography what's the point in a lens that's ...
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How do I avoid vignetting when shooting through a cut-out for shaped bokeh?
I used a 18mm-50mm lens at f/3.5, with a card with a cut-out heart shape of about 4mm.
I got the shaped bokeh effect, but the outer side of image is dark due to the card.
How do I avoid this and ...
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Do ICC profiles support for different color characteristics for different parts of the image (i.e. near the edges)?
I believe ICC profiles are mostly used for color equalization; and I wonder whether they can be used to correct spatial differences within the images (e.g. vignetting). I would like to know if the ...
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Why does my Nikkor 12-24mm lens vignette on my Nikon D800?
I have a Nikon D800 and am using a Nikon 12-24mm lens with it. When completely zoomed out it produces a vignette that I don't particularly care for. I've never seen this with my other Nikon DSLRs ...
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How do I create a spot light effect in Lightroom?
Having an effect of round spot light on the picture, so in the middle it's lighter and close to corners darker — what is the name of this effect in photography?
What is the technique for this in ...
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What is the Shading Comp. setting on my camera, and how do I use it?
My Lumix GX1 has an on/off SHADING COMP. setting in the Rec menu, and it's set to off. What is this setting and what effect would it have when turned on? When do I want it?
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What can cause black corners in an image?
There are completely black corners in some of my photos. What can cause it?
I have a full-frame Canon 5D Mk II and had the problem with my 24-105 Canon lens recently and have experienced it with my ...
