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lens flare

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Unwanted, excessive light in a photograph due to internal reflections and scattering of light caused by a camera lens with non-uniform optical characteristics. Zoom lenses, which contain several elements, tend to introduce more lens flare due to the many surfaces within the lens. See purple fringing and chromatic aberration.

Sometimes We Create Our Own Lens Flare
Lens flare is a common image editing effect that is used to add atmosphere or drama to an image. This Photoshop screen shot shows the lens flare filter being applied to the image on the left. The type of camera lens, amount of brightness and position of the light can be adjusted.



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Luke Gottelier used to make photographs--orchestrations of items found in his studio which, shot close-up and flooded with lens flare, instigated scalecollapsing double visions: A modest cluster of erasers would read, for instance, as a dramatically backlit ring of Neolithic standing stones.
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