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The photography questions thread

 
  

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Olulabelle
16:58 / 06.10.07
No I wasn't. And it was a very sunny day. Should I go and get one then do you think?
 
 
Smoothly
17:23 / 06.10.07
That might be it then. The lens should have come with a hood so it might well be in the box still.
 
 
trouble at bill
15:30 / 28.10.07
Smoothly, ta, I will get myself into the world of the GND filter with due trepidation.

Olulabelle, possibly another solution to your problem which does not involve buying any new kit might be just trying to avoid shooting in bright 'midday' type sunlight? Or is that just not practical?
 
 
trouble at bill
12:01 / 03.11.08
Actually also wouldn't a polarizing filter help with warming up the colours in bright sun? Anyway, I hope you solved that problem of yesteryear...

Relatedly, and though this may seem a strange/silly question, ever since I dropped my kit zoom lense and bought (supposedly) better prime lenses, I have found that I can hardly get flare. I mean flare as in circles of confusion/big psychedelic spheres. What ways are there to actually achieve flare when you want it (other than always carrying that particular cheap lense)? It's just that even though most say it's a fault, I sometimes like it in an artsy kindof way and I find I miss it!
 
 
astrojax69
20:52 / 03.11.08
'flare' is really just non-image-forming light, and 'better' lenses are more likely to have coatings to reduce this. there are filters that can induce various effects and you look into (trawl the 'net or, better, ask your friendly local professional camera store) if there are filters to mimic flare...

...or you can induce it onto the image exactly where you want it through photoshop... i know what you mean; it can add a certain something to shots when it comes out right, but making it come out right can be hard, esp when shooting non-stationary things, like people.
 
 
trouble at bill
12:25 / 04.11.08
Thanks, Photoshop is presumably what I'll need then when I seek such effects. (I'd actually not got as far as using Photoshop as I'm only just moving to digital equipment and have so far only used simpler editing software). The filters I knew of didn't quite do what I wanted and nowadays I nearly always use various compact cameras and very few compacts offer filters. I'd never tried to flare people shots, only landscapes, and it is rather random. But in a way that is part of the appeal. (I think my fondness for flare may have something to do with the fact that when they made Bladerunner they weren't happy with the opening scenes until they flared the spinners as they flew about. Obviously, such 'sci-fi aesthetics' don't mesh with those of many a mainstream photographer! Still, it is also fairly common in tv photography of landscapes and wildlife - someone obviously thinks all those wildebeests in the sunset shots wouldn't be the same without it.)
 
 
grant
16:18 / 04.11.08
Star filters?

Cheap UV filters?

Or just do the opposite of everything in this or this.
 
 
trouble at bill
16:28 / 04.11.08
Yeah, I think doing the opposite of the last two advice sets works best for when you want 'natural' looking flares, the filters seem somehow artificial and reminiscent of cheap greetings cards.
 
  

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