HELP!

August 27th, 2012
Okay, so I'm editing photos from my vacation, and when I edited this one, it had this weird circle. I thought it looked kind of neat in this one, but now it's coming up in ALL of my pictures! Does anyone have any idea why it would be doing that? Any help would be very much appreciated!
August 27th, 2012
Wow, that's wild. Never seen that before. Does it do it with other lenses?
August 27th, 2012
Looks like excessive vignetting correction has been applied to the photographs.

I'm guessing that this isn't a Nikon lens? This typically happens when you use a third party (Sigma, Tamron, etc.) lens -- for technical reasons the lens pretends to be something different to the camera, and can cause the camera to apply an incorrect correction factor.

Do you shoot in RAW (NEF) or JPEG? If you shoot in RAW, you should be able to simply disable the vignetting correction in your RAW processing software. If you shoot in JPEG I fear that this might be irreversible (except by attempting to manually edit the ring out).

There is a similar, but more pronounced, example here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinchi/7680045268/
August 27th, 2012
Automatic scene mode or picture mode. My dslr has "art scenes" that can do grunge, vignette, high contrast, grainy, etc. you may have it on one of them.
August 27th, 2012
Some other thoughts...

Do you have the correct lens hood on? The wrong one can cause something like this.

Is it a lens for APSc sensor only, that is being used on full frame sensor?

Google lens and see if it can be used on your camera. Sometime they need an update..

Or try on a friends camera?
August 27th, 2012
What are you using for editing?
August 28th, 2012
@kaylaspics @abirkill Pretty sure its not a lens issue I have looked at you album and they seem fine, are you applying a pre-set in Lightroom or what ever post software you are using?

Write a Reply
Sign up for a free account or Sign in to post a comment.