What couses this effect with my wide angle lens

bogman

Visible in night shots especially, using a Nikon D-90 with a recently acquired Tokina 11-16mm DX lens, not using a hood




You can see the shadow on the bench, is it caused by the flash and what can I do to sort out the problem?
Thanks in anticipation

Charles

Paulw

I would guess that your flash fired, and the shadow is from the lens.

ene

is your hand resting on the lens when the flash is going off?

it looks like a bit of your hand... like the shadow of your grip on the lens

PixelTrawler

Lens hood usually.

magicbastarder

if it's more pronounced at 11mm than at 16mm, the answer is simple, it's just the shadow of the lens.

bogman

Not using a hood, now I catch the camera from the underneath and my hand rests near the back of the lens and as mentioned above that may be the problem even though the front of the lens is nearly 3" in front of my hand

Zillah

It's definitely the shadow of the lens from the flash. Try using indirect flash or a shorter lens.

Is it a proper flash or the onboard? The onboard is very low on the camera, if you attach a separate flash the higher position will drastically reduce the likelihood of the lens casting a shadow.

Splinters

Its 100% the shadow of the lens from the on camera flash.

poundhound

It's definitely the shadow from the lens, I incur the same problem with the Nikon 10-24mm.

If you turn the camera upside down the shoot, the shadow will be on the ceiling, thus confirming its the lens shadow.

Zillah

poundhound wrote: »

If you turn the camera upside down the shoot, the shadow will be on the ceiling, thus confirming its the lens shadow.

Science!

Effects

It's the built in flash. It's not high enough.

bogman

Excellent, knew id get some answers here, thanks folks, will report back when I try out what ye suggest

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