Lens Flare - and how to avoid it
February 11th, 2008
I get a lot of people sending me images with ‘mysterious’ problems, and I figured it was only fair if I run a series of articles about how you can alleviate these problems. The most frequent problem is actually a lens-flare related problem, and there seems to be some confusion as to what lens flare actually is.
I suppose the first thing we should discuss is just what lens flare actually is. Most commonly seen in photographs, lens flare can appear as bright circles, smears of light or glimmering lines.
On some occasions, it can even appear as a thin film over the entire picture that makes the image itself lighter. Read the rest of the article »
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