Friday, December 12, 2008

Lens Flare

Experimented with lens flare the other day. It was a little tricky. There seemed to be a lot of variables: zoom, angle, aperture, the distance from the subject (which affected focus), and luck. I didn't really get it figured out, though managed to get a few good ones. Now if I could do it while actually taking a picture of something nice it'd be even better.






Posted by Joel MacKenzie at 8:00 AM
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  1. Framing Images and MemoriesDecember 14, 2008 at 9:09 AM

    good job..for some reason one of my lenses captures flare more than the others. Do you use photoshop or elements? If so there is a flare filter that would enhance the flares you have already captured.

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  2. Joel MacKenzieDecember 14, 2008 at 10:23 AM

    Thanks.

    I think that lenses are generally designed to capture as little flare as possible, so maybe less expensive lenses would work better for flare.

    I use the GIMP for editing. I'd assume that it has something similar, although I haven't checked yet.

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  3. HOLLYHOWEphotographyDecember 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM

    ha! what's GIMP?! ;D love flare shots...although i don't know how to do them much... when you get it figured out --teach me! ha!

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  4. HOLLYHOWEphotographyDecember 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM

    ...and i don't know. i think the pic of the tractor is quite beautiful. ;D

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  5. Joel MacKenzieDecember 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM

    GIMP is an open source (therefore FREE!) photo editing program. It has a lot in common with Photoshop.

    http://www.gimp.org/

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