Something went wrong.. Terrible pic!!

[Cathrine]

I took this picture and this is the first time I had this type of quality turn out on my pictures... What did I do wrong? I've only been taking pictures for 2 months now.. Thanks!!

Camera Model Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/80
Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6
Metering Mode Center-Weighted Average Metering
Exposure Compensation 0
ISO Speed 100
Lens EF50mm f/1.8 II
Focal Length 50.0 mm
Flash On
Flash Type Built-In Flash
White Balance Mode Daylight

[miyukisarah]

Your shutter speed is much too low. You probably didn't need the flash as well.

[CaptainNH]

Originally Posted by miyukisarah

Your shutter speed is much too low. You probably didn't need the flash as well.

Of course, an alternative view could be that your shutter speed was fine and your use of flash was appropriate to lift the shadows that would have otherwise been on the face

Your problem looks like lens flare to me, did you have a filter on the lens too? Just shield your lens from the sun (with a lens hood or just your hand) and the problem should magically fix itself.

[candleman]

the shutterspeed is fine for a stationary subject.. especially at 50mm

Originally Posted by CaptainNH

Of course, an alternative view could be that your shutter speed was fine and your use of flash was appropriate to lift the shadows that would have otherwise been on the face

Your problem looks like lens flare to me, did you have a filter on the lens too? Just shield your lens from the sun (with a lens hood or just your hand) and the problem should magically fix itself.

yup,

two issues here IMHO

1. lens flare (you're shooting INTO the sun..

2. white balance
you have two light sources the orange daylight and the flash.

you have WB set to daylight.. yeah, that means the camera is adding a low Kelvin number for compensating the orange in the daylight... (say roughly 4300K) so its going to bias the image to blue basically

problem is you used flash for fill.. flash colour temperature is around 5300Kelvin
so your flash registered as blue because the WB wasnt set for flash.. it was set for the orange of the daylight.

a CTO warming filter over the flash would have solved that.

OR, simply use a reflector and not flash.. BINGO, no WB issues anymore... because theres only one colour temperature to work with.

but this wasnt a huge contributor imho... it did play a part




i've done something similar.. ...theres nothing wrong with flare.. you just need to know what you're trying to create.
in my image it was intentional. and the one nexto it i intentionally biased in PS because i liked the effect.
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[Cathrine]

I've heard of lens flare--so that's what happens... interesting.. And no I did not have a filter. I do not have a photography store nearby and I have to order everything off the internet. There's so many choices that it overwhelms me. lol

Candleman-- I see the difference now. You took a beautiful picture of your wife. She is very pretty. I see the flare in the corner which made the picture stand out.

And as for the white balance--I completely forgot that I was experimenting with the different types of white balance prior to taking the picture. I should have left it on auto.

Thank you all for your critiques and suggestions!

[CaptainNH]

Originally Posted by Cathrine

I've heard of lens flare--so that's what happens... interesting.. And no I did not have a filter.

The reason I mentioned a filter is that the flare in your photo is across almost all the photo, something which is often seen if you have a filter fitted, and you end up with more of a haze than the rings that Candleman intentionally put in his shot.

I'm not suggesting you should have had one, in fact, quite the opposite.

[imove]

I think you have a bit of a lens flare going here. If it was taken from a different angle it has the potential of working for you well in an artistic way. However, you might be able to fix the exposure if you shot it in RAW. I agree with the person above... no need for flash and you should raise the shutter speed a bit.

[Ram8982]

Though i guess it was been said all ... I only wanted to add .. Here comes the photoshop ..

a lot of times common mistakes will happen .. but u can save ur photo with photoshop or other processing softwares ..

I attached to you 2 trials of saving ur shot ... hope u gonna like'em

[LoveDSLR]

Here's my version for fun:

[Benji]

Major lens flare; simple cure, don't shoot into the sun. If you shoot in Raw and shoot a grey card first you will NEVER have ANY white balance problems.

The internet has spawned thousands of "experts" spouting off "expert" advice when they don't know the difference between an aperture and a hole in the ground. Sunshine and flash are within several hundred degrees of one another between the hours of 10 AM and about 5 PM. If I read one more time to "use a reflector to bounce [direct] sunshine back into the eyes of your subject" I'm going to scream. YOU CANNOT bounce sunshine back into the eyes of your subject. Don't believe me? Try it on yourself and you will never subject anyone else to it (unless you want to blind them for a few moments.)

Benji