Maybe something's physically wrong, like the alignment of the flash tube
with the reflector, or the light lens?
Is everything at the same distance? Closer stuff gets more light.
Are you using a very wide angle lens?
Some immediate solutions:
- bounce off the wall or ceiling (the light, I mean.)
- use a slight telephoto like an 85 or 100 and back up. This reduces
the
disparity between subject & background.
- open up your lens aperture so the shutter speed indicates 1/30 or
1/15.
The flash will set the shutter at 1/60, so the ambient light will fill in
the background 1 or 2 stops down.
Tom
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 17:36, Olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] Sunspot effect from flash" saying:
> Hmm.. I hope to gleen some suggestions from you all, but I get a sunspot
> effect from using my flash at night... the center of the image is too
> bright, and the sides have drastic dropoffs and so even if I want to correct
> the brightness later on in Photoshop, it's hard as it's very bright in the
> middle, very dark on the sides.. Anything I can do about that or no?
>
> If I crank it down an f-stop, I will get even darker sides...
>
> Thanks.
> Albert
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