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Help please - what's wrong here?

Started 5 months ago | Questions thread
Dan W Senior Member • Posts: 1,154
Re: Help please - what's wrong here?

Jim_robinson wrote:

I'm using the R6 to take marching band pictures, and usually don't shoot completely wide open, though close to it. The picture below was taken on an R6, using a RF70-200 set at 153mm, F2.8, SS 800, ISO 12800. THe espose in different across the picture in a way I haven't seen before, and several pictures came out the same. Is it due to the uneven stadium lighting? I can improve it a bit change WB and doing some edits, but it is still visible. Some other pics are completely fine, same settings. I'd appreciate any input on what I might have done wrong here. Thanks!

I'm going to say its the lighting. Look at the cross lighting in the pic by the shadows left from the 2 band members closest to the camera in the image. The shadows are pretty dark in 3 of the 4 ways the light is coming from. the light pointing towards the right bottom edge is faint. Just take a quick snap in your yard using the same lens and exposure if you can and see it is still a problem. You can also set the F stop the same and shoot a blank sky with the same focal length on the same lens to see if its a problem with the lens. But I'm guessing its just the lighting...

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