What is this? (Problem with a photo....)

[Glenn Thoreson]

Cable release.

[Sheldon N]

Well, it's not dust/spiderwebs in the camera or a problem with the film holder, since I just checked both of those out.

On the original negative, I can see the area with a lack of density extend into the sky and down into the log on the shoreline, so it's not a natural reflection. I also have almost exactly the same shot taken a couple minutes earlier and it doesn't have the band.

I was standing on the left side of the camera and paying more attention to my lens shading than my cable release, so I'm going with the majority on this one.

Number 48 it is - Cable Release.

DOH!

Thanks for the help everyone!

[roteague]

We have all done the cable release thing, at one time or another.

[D. Bryant]

We have all done the cable release thing, at one time or another.

Oh yeah! At a lecture given by John Sexton a few years back, he admitted to making this error - more than once!

Don Bryant

[Brian C. Miller]

Yesterday I was shooting some architecture with my Graflex, and I had to be careful about holding filters in front of the lens. I'm hoping I didn't also photograph any of my fingers.

[Kirk Gittings]

a spider thread inside the bellows of my 8x10

As an aside.........the best way to kill spiders in you bellows is with a very sharp icepick.