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: What is the name of a photographic effect where there are subtle shadows in corners? If you take pictures and the aperture settings are not ideal, you will see a light shadow in the corners.

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If you take pictures and the aperture settings are not ideal, you will see a light shadow in the corners.

Example:



This effect is a sign of bad quality, but is also often used as a design element in movies, pictures and so on - how is it called?

I want to use it, but I have no clue how it's called.

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@LarsenBagley460

It is called Vignetting, which, as you described:


[…] is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center.


It can appear as


Mechanical (filters used in a shoot, improper lens hood, etc)
Optical (lens)
Natural (illumination falloff)
Pixel (digital sensor's alignment to the scene)
Photographic film (the film's properties)


Nowadays it can be easily done in post-processing.

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