10-26-2016 03:17 PM
So i'm shooting product photos for an auction and I shoot vertically a lot. Usually I turn the camera clockwise, with the camera bottom being on my left. When I take the picture, the left edge of the photo seemed shadowed or slightly darker. I thought it was a lighting problem, but I've noticed that if I turn the camera counter clockwise, the right side is dark, not the left. Never experience this before. Suggestions?
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10-26-2016 09:29 PM
What shutter speed are you using?
Some 3rd party flashes have a tiny bit of lag and the camera needs to be backed off the normal flash-sync speed by about 1/3rd of a stop.
10-26-2016 03:24 PM
Are you using flash? Is it on camera?
10-26-2016 03:34 PM
Softboxes. Here are two undedited examples. I'm simply turning the camera opposite ways. I cropped it slightly, but they were both shot vertically . First photo has the bottom of my camera facing the right. Brand new camera, used lens.
10-26-2016 03:41 PM
Are you using flash? What you describe sounds like you may have had the flash unit angled for bounce flash and forgot to readjust it when you rotated the camera.
10-26-2016 03:51 PM
Two softboxes, equally spaced, pointing towards the wall on a slight angle inward. If I shoot horizontally, both the left and right sides are equally lit.
10-26-2016 04:10 PM
Is that the old 24-70 or the Mark II? I've read that the old one had a huge and rather wacky lens hood. Could it be casting a shadow? Something must be.
10-26-2016 04:19 PM
It is the old one, but I'm not using a lense hood. I'm stumped. It doesn't make sense to me.
10-26-2016 04:25 PM
The only obvoius variable that's changing is gravity. It's almost as if the image circle shifts.
10-26-2016 04:29 PM
@lifer311 wrote:It is the old one, but I'm not using a lense hood. I'm stumped. It doesn't make sense to me.
You don't have auto-rotate enabled? Should the one image be upside down?
10-26-2016 04:50 PM
It looks as though something on the top or bottom of the camera is interfering with the light from one of the softboxes. (Which one depends on which way the camera is oriented.) A tripod mount, perhaps?
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