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02/08/2011 05:48:13 PM · #1 |
| We've all fought with lens flare, trying to keep it out of our images. What about a challenge to make it an attractive and/or creative part of an image? |
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02/08/2011 06:00:49 PM · #2 |
+1
although i can NEVER manage to get it when i want it, yet ALWAYS have it when i dont... |
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02/08/2011 06:31:24 PM · #3 |
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02/11/2011 05:08:30 PM · #4 |
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08/29/2011 10:03:39 AM · #5 |
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08/29/2011 10:08:01 AM · #6 |
| This one is going to be fun! ...I hope !! |
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08/29/2011 10:12:53 AM · #7 |
| I have the perfect lens for this. My 7-14mm sure loves the flare. lol |
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08/29/2011 12:32:03 PM · #8 |
| First overcast day in weeks here... Supposed to be sunny later. |
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08/29/2011 12:44:54 PM · #9 |
I like this idea, just a shame if this gets picked up for a challenge soon that the summer weather seems to be over now (here at least). The Sigma 10-20mm produces some fairly interesting flare when shooting in to the sun though:
Would be interesting to play with that (along with investigating further the flare characteristics of my other lenses =). |
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08/29/2011 01:30:34 PM · #10 |
Anyone got an answer would it be allow to use lens filter in this challenge?
Message edited by author 2011-08-29 14:59:30. |
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08/29/2011 01:56:10 PM · #11 |
Oh, just noticed this was selected... well great! Now I'm just hoping for the sun back on one of my days off this week =).
(I realise there are plenty of others ways to get lens flare, but I want the sun =)) |
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08/29/2011 02:30:16 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by alexlky:
Originally posted by HawkinsT:
I like this idea, just a shame if this gets picked up for a challenge soon that the summer weather seems to be over now (here at least). The Sigma 10-20mm produces some fairly interesting flare when shooting in to the sun though:
Would be interesting to play with that (along with investigating further the flare characteristics of my other lenses =). |
wow! this is beautiful lens flare.
Anyone got an answer would it be allow to use lens filter in this challenge? |
Well the description does ask for a natural lens flare, so I think its discouraged.
It does beg the question though, is adding an unnatural lens flare ever allowed in Basic or advanced editing? I don't know the answer |
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08/29/2011 02:59:03 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Fiora:
Originally posted by alexlky:
Anyone got an answer would it be allow to use lens filter in this challenge? |
Well the description does ask for a natural lens flare, so I think its discouraged.
It does beg the question though, is adding an unnatural lens flare ever allowed in Basic or advanced editing? I don't know the answer |
Thanks, Fiora. Actually the lens flare is unnatural and good lenses don't have that. I hope my repair IR body could be arriving in time.
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08/29/2011 03:08:21 PM · #14 |
Do you think this one is a touch over the top?
Cute little satire on the over use of lens flare in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie. He used flare, A LOT! As he put it...
"The flares weren't just happening from on-camera light sources, they were happening off camera, and that was really the key to it. I want [to create] the sense that, just off camera, something spectacular is happening. There was always a sense of something, and also there is a really cool organic layer thats a quality of it. They were all done live, they weren't added later. There are something about those flares, especially in a movie that can potentially be very sterile and CG and overly controlled. There is something incredibly unpredictable and gorgeous about them. It is a really fun thing. Our DP would be off camera with this incredibly powerful flashlight aiming it at the lens. It became an art because different lenses required angles, and different proximity to the lens. Sometimes, when we were outside we'd use mirrors. Certain sizes were too big... literally, it was ridiculous. It was like another actor in the scene...." |
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08/29/2011 03:24:22 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by alexlky:
Originally posted by Fiora:
Originally posted by alexlky:
Anyone got an answer would it be allow to use lens filter in this challenge? |
Well the description does ask for a natural lens flare, so I think its discouraged.
It does beg the question though, is adding an unnatural lens flare ever allowed in Basic or advanced editing? I don't know the answer |
Thanks, Fiora. Actually the lens flare is unnatural and good lenses don't have that. I hope my repair IR body could be arriving in time.
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Those are nice... I hope you your IR body arrives back in time too if you're going to enter something similar =).
If by filter you just mean a cheap filter that as an unintentional by product of its manufacturing is prone to flare (as opposed to its primary purpose) I don't see what's wrong with that, it's surely no different to using a cheaper lens? |
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08/29/2011 03:31:44 PM · #16 |
This is going to be an interesting week for me as I have NEVER done a photo with lens flare.
Have some ideas but IF I get them done is the real test I have. |
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08/29/2011 03:38:12 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by HawkinsT:
Originally posted by alexlky:
[quote=Fiora] [quote=alexlky]
Anyone got an answer would it be allow to use lens filter in this challenge? |
If by filter you just mean a cheap filter that as an unintentional by product of its manufacturing is prone to flare (as opposed to its primary purpose) I don't see what's wrong with that, it's surely no different to using a cheaper lens? |
Thanks.
Message edited by author 2011-09-03 13:40:21. |
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08/29/2011 04:55:03 PM · #18 |
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