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Photo Term Series Post #14: Vignetting

 ”In photography and optics, vignetting is a reduction in image brightness in the image periphery compared to the image center.

Although vignetting is normally unintended and undesired, it is sometimes purposely introduced for creative effect, such as to draw attention to the center of the frame. A photographer may deliberately choose a lens which is known to produce vignetting. It can also be produced with the use of special filters or post-processing procedures.” – Wikipedia

Example:

Vignetted version (note the darkened corners)

Taking In The View with Vignetting photograph by Jim M. Goldstein

Non-vignetted version (lighter corners)

Taking In The View landscape photograph by Jim M. Goldstein

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  • I can relate to Andrew's comment!! I had to call VA (vignetters anonymous) a couple of times. :-)
  • jim
    Andrew your comment made me laugh. Best of luck with staying clean.

    Brian beyond B&W, vignetting definitely adds to the impact of color images too. On the other hand unintended vignetting can be quite frustrating.
  • Yeah, I like to throw some in every once in a while too -- especially on the "grainy" black & whites.
  • You should probably warn people that purposefully vignetting your photos can become pretty addicting. Once I started playing with the effect in Lightroom, I began to use it often and eventually started overusing it before I managed to cut back.

    I've been clean for three days, now.
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