Lens flare can appear as spots or streaks of light and color or as a washed-out hazy look in your photographs. Some photographers and filmmakers like to use it creatively, but it usually shows up as an unpleasant surprise that can ruin your picture.
Apple appears to have added a feature in the latest iOS 15 operating system beta that will automatically remove the "green orb" lens flare that is common when a bright light appears in the frame, but only in certain circumstances.
Lens flare can either be an annoyance or an interesting creative tool. In this 6-minute video, Jay P. Morgan of Slanted Lens demonstrates how to master lens flare for your photography.
From the "weird but also kind of fun" department comes one of the strangest and now most popular photos ever shared on Reddit. No, it's not some epic landscape or a mind-blowing wildlife photo... it's a shot of the London skyline with a lens flare that looks exactly like the South Park character Eric Cartman.
Google says its new Pixel smartphone has the best smartphone camera ever made, but it looks like the company still has some issues to work out. Pixel owners are reporting that the camera sometimes captures annoying lens flares in photos.
Lens flare was once considered a problem in filmmaking and something that should be prevented with well designed lenses and special coatings, but now it's something that's embraced and seemingly in every movie that hits the silver screen. How and why did this change happen?
If you've always wanted to go crazy and creative with lens flares in your photos or videos, then Technical Farm's new Flare Adapter is for you. It's a see-through lens adapter that lets light leak into your shots from between your lens and your camera.
A week ago, we reported that some owners of the Nikon D750 are reporting a strange and ugly dark band that appears at the top of the frame, interrupting lens flare when the camera is pointed at certain angles towards light sources. Nikon acknowledged the issue today and says that it's currently looking into a fix.
The Nikon D750 full frame DSLR has been receiving fantastic marks from reviewers so far, but now an issue has popped up that threatens to damage the camera's reputation. Photographers around the world are reporting a problem with their lens flares. At certain angles, an ugly dark band shows up across the top, separating lens flares from the edge of the frame.
One of the basic Photoshop skills that many beginners want to learn early on is how to change something's color in one of their images (be that an object or someone's eye color). Well, you're in luck, because Aaron Nace and Phlearn are here with a simple tutorial that will show you how to do just that, and do it well.
An update on the iPhone 5 and "Purplegate": DPReview has published a pretty in-depth review of the iPhone 5 as a camera -- a review that has 1 of the 5 pages dedicated to examining the purple haze issue that has been widely discussed in recent days.
Artificial lens flare is an important part of making certain computer generated scenes look realistic, but up …