i remembered today seeing a how-to video on photography from the '80s (dean collins ftw), and in it dean demonstrated how to make a vignette. this was back before photoshop and easy post retouching type stuff.... so he was actually cutting a piece of paper and putting it just in front of the lens of the camera, so that it would be out of focus and provide a bit of a gradient to white (or black, depending on the color of the paper).
so i gave it a shot. made this:
i cut it out unevenly on purpose.... i wasn't trying to duplicate what i can do in photoshop or lightroom, i wanted to do something that looked different, not the same.
interesting things learned:
1. i had to light the vignette paper with it's own flash.
2. make sure you're not focusing on the vignette.
3. success has a lot to do with tweaking the exposure, levels in lightroom.
i learned something else too, but i don't want to talk about it yet. i think i'm going to explore it more in the future, and maybe do a post on it down the road.
setup shot:
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