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my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
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Looks like some trees that are in the water well in front of the trees on the distant shore, so the that are closer are darker.

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The shadow in the upper middle of the pic looks like another tree or two, but the main thing you can do to improve this pic for the next time is to use a circular polarizer. That will get rid of some of the glare from the water.
Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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http://www.pbase.com/ping279
Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

FCAS Member

• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
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I little post work would make this pciture a keeper

IMHO
SweetD70 said:
Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

FCAS Member

• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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the horizon is tilted and i think it's a bad picture in general... but doesn't anyone see the shading coming from the tree all the way down to the foreground of the picture? This is definitly a problem or something wrong went on when this picture was taken. I know the shading isn't just a tree... It's a malfunction of some kind it looks like.

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Probably caused by the electronic shutter.

You can avoid these types of effects with bright highlights by shooting at slower shutter speeds (1/500 or less, I believe) and higher aperture settings.

Sometimes you'll need an ND filter if it's really bright to be able to bring the shutter speed down to 1/500 or less.
Ping279 said:
the horizon is tilted and i think it's a bad picture in general...
but doesn't anyone see the shading coming from the tree all the way
down to the foreground of the picture? This is definitly a problem
or something wrong went on when this picture was taken. I know the
shading isn't just a tree... It's a malfunction of some kind it
looks like.

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~ Ping279 ~
http://www.pbase.com/ping279
Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

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• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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~ Ping279 ~
http://www.pbase.com/ping279
Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

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• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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you're kidding right?? keeper??
Scotty said:
IMHO
SweetD70 said:
Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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~ Ping279 ~
http://www.pbase.com/ping279
Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

FCAS Member

• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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It looks like the CCD maxed out on a couple of those highlights.

Since it's been through photoshop, some information (ISO, metering mode, etc...) is not available.

Taking a closer look at it with Photoshop, there is some quirkiness happening at the top near the trees (those were trees, right?). You could consider stopping down your lens as well. Did you actually shoot at F4.3, or am I getting munged EXIF fields?
Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?



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~ Ping279 ~
http://www.pbase.com/ping279
Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

FCAS Member

• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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And, just to let you know. Yes, I see the odd green-ish banding over the middle of the image.

Shutter troubles, CCD troubles, etc... CCDs certainly aren't as local with sun glare artifacts as film. It just means that I'm going to have to do a bit of re-learning for sunset shooting.
Ping279 said:
the horizon is tilted and i think it's a bad picture in general...
but doesn't anyone see the shading coming from the tree all the way
down to the foreground of the picture? This is definitly a problem
or something wrong went on when this picture was taken. I know the
shading isn't just a tree... It's a malfunction of some kind it
looks like.

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~ Ping279 ~
http://www.pbase.com/ping279
Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

FCAS Member

• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
and busy •
Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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Do you mean that am I kidding about keeping it or not keeping it? I definitly don't want to keep it. It is a terrible shot, it wasn't even taken by me. My mom shot it since she wanted to see my new cam. She actually has a degree in photog. but recently sice her eyesight has been going, she can't see much in the lens. I'll bet if she was 15 yrs younger this would be a great shot.

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~ Ping279 ~
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and busy •
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It was actually shot at 5.6 Here's the full exif from pbase :

Date/Time 31-May-2004 19:49:18
Make Nikon
Model NIKON D70
Flash Used No
Focal Length 135 mm
Exposure Time 1/5000 sec
Aperture f/5.6
ISO Equivalent 200
Exposure Bias -1/3
White Balance (10)
Metering Mode matrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program aperture priority (3)

It was put through photoshop but nothing but resizing was done to it. It is straight from the camera.

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~ Ping279 ~
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UFO landing? :o)
Ping279 said:
It was actually shot at 5.6 Here's the full exif from pbase :

Date/Time 31-May-2004 19:49:18
Make Nikon
Model NIKON D70
Flash Used No
Focal Length 135 mm
Exposure Time 1/5000 sec
Aperture f/5.6
ISO Equivalent 200
Exposure Bias -1/3
White Balance (10)
Metering Mode matrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program aperture priority (3)

It was put through photoshop but nothing but resizing was done to
it. It is straight from the camera.

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• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
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Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
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mchaboud said:
Since it's been through photoshop, some information (ISO, metering
mode, etc...) is not available.

Taking a closer look at it with Photoshop, there is some quirkiness
happening at the top near the trees (those were trees, right?).
You could consider stopping down your lens as well. Did you
actually shoot at F4.3, or am I getting munged EXIF fields?
Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?

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This is my pic against the sun. Definitely the strong sunlight has affected the performance of CCD. The blue sky to the left and the brown line in the water to the left (1/400 , F13) - Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver

This was taken last week on a cruise to Alaska. Got the D70 a week before, all other pics taken during the cruise are ok expect I need to check whether horizontal level of the pics, got pics that are slightly tiltled lower to the right, even using grid line through the viewfinder, need a cross pattern to test further. Just wonder whether other users have noticed this problem (tilting).
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W Yeung
 
I had exactly the same problem with some of my pictures taken of a church. A dark green band. The sun was directly behind the church so it seemed like a form of glare I suppose. Now if I shoot into the sun I use the smallest aperture I can and I haven't had the problem again since. I wondered if it was an internal reflection in the camera from the AA filter which is green in colour?

Cheers

Keith
 
Ping279 said:
my mom shot this picture the other day, so I don't know how exactly
she did this. No effects were added, straight from camera. What is
wrong with that dark shading? Where did that come from?
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Ping, I've identified a reproducible problem with the D70 in portrait mode. When the shutter speed is faster than the mechanical (1/125th sec) and there is bright backlighting, major shutter artifacts can occur across the frame. They look much like what you're seeing there. Try taking portrait orientation pictures into sunlight.

I first came across this while shooting at a glass of water with strong sun coming from the window behind it - most of the right hand sides of my frames came out a dark green with the left edge of the green showing up exactly the kind of artifact you're seeing. There have been a couple of other samples posted on this board - all have been portrait orientation images.

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Russell Garner
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Russell Garner said:
Ping, I've identified a reproducible problem with the D70 in
portrait mode. When the shutter speed is faster than the
mechanical (1/125th sec) and there is bright backlighting, major
shutter artifacts can occur across the frame. They look much like
what you're seeing there. Try taking portrait orientation pictures
into sunlight.
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I took half a dozen or more of these, got the problem every time with every aperture and metering setting:



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Russell Garner
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thanx for the research... my mom when she took this shot she must have just had the settngs just right and pointing the camera just at the right angle to make this effect. I'll try what you said sometime : - )

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Florida highschool student, aspiring photographer

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• I live for the small things in life, they keep my camera nice
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Nikon D70 ; 18-70 DX, 70-300 ED D - CP 4•5•0•0
 
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