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I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to help prevent sun flare in my photos. I have been having repeated issues with it in my pictures lately. I use the Photos program on Apple computers for editing, so I have trouble removing it in editing, especially when it shows up on an object with a lot of texture. The retouch tool in Photos will generally just smear the area where the sun flare is, making the removal very obvious and the photo distasteful. So, I’m trying to find some ways to keep sun flare from happening in the first place. In the two pictures here that I took for the most recent assignment, I was using an 18-55 mm lens without any filter on it and was trying to capture the starburst effect next to the church. I really liked the angle of the shots and was disappointed to see that they were not presentable. Does anyone have any suggestions? Might certain filters help with this problem?
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It was good to hear @jamesstaddon’s thoughts on your question during Tuesday’s webinar, Cody! Here’s a link to the replay, if you (or anyone else) wants to re-watch that.
Did you find that to be helpful? Any follow-up questions or comments on what he shared?
Yes, James’ advice was very helpful. I really appreciated how many different ideas he gave about lens flare. I think I might look into lens hoods (I don’t have any currently). A lens hood probably would’ve worked in the scenario I showed above since I wasn’t shooting right at the sun. I never actually knew what lens hoods were used for specifically since I’ve never had one, so I didn’t think of that as a possible solution.🙂
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