Shadow on Pictures

[pamijo89]

I shot some Christmas pictures last night and I get a strange shadow on the bottom of the pictures. I used a 50 1.4 with a flash bracket. Can anyone tell me why I am getting this on the photo. I am posting some examples. Thanks

[John E]

Do you have a hood attached? Your on board flash cannot reach over the lens. Try an external flash.

[jra]

May be caused by the flash being set too high on the flash bracket and not covering the bottom of the frame. An easy fix is to manually zoom your flash out so it covers more area.

[pamijo89]

I did have the hood on! So I should have it on?

[pamijo89]

I mean shouldnt have it on! sorry!

[Titus213]

Shutter speed was higher than the max sync speed for the camera. You used 1/400 for that last one. Crank the shutter speed down to 1/200 or lower and you should be fine. Nice images other than that.

[JeratBP]

i've had this same problem when using my off-brand flash (Phoenix). usually replacing the batteries fixes the issue.

[pamijo89]

I am using a canon 580ex flash with a bracket.

[Chris71]

Shutter speed was higher than the max sync speed for the camera. You used 1/400 for that last one. Crank the shutter speed down to 1/200 or lower and you should be fine. Nice images other than that.

This would be my first thing to check. I had the same problem a while back, and my pictures turned out just like yours.

[goforphoto]

If you are going to use a shutter speed higher than 250 you have to put the flash in high speed sync mode otherwise you will get this every time. If you had the camera set to anything other than manual your shutter most likely would have not went no further than 250. manual overrides ETTL so you have to set the high syncon the flash.