Draw attention with a vignette
Employ this subtle effect in Lightroom or Camera Raw to direct the viewer’s eye
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Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack is a photographer and writer, based in Galway. He’s the author of The IndispensableGuide toLightroomCC.
V ignetting refers to the darkening of corners in an image. When I first got into photography, all I’d see of this phenomenon was terrible 1970s portraits. These gave me an instant dislike of the technique, and I dismissed any possibility of ever using vignettes in my photos. Fast-forward a few years to my first exhibition, however, and every photo had a vignette to some extent. In the intervening years, I’d found that I could actually use vignettes to creatively draw attention to what I wanted to highlight in my photo.