[Theme] Lens Flare

[MFloyd]

Nikon 16-35mm f/4 on D4s. The nanocoating makes flare very difficult:

[Bjørn Rørslett]

The flare and ghosting resistance is very good for a zoom lens indeed. Not all nano-coated lenses perform this well.

[Bruno Schroder]

Thank you, Bjørn and Jakov.

[beryllium10]

Not really lens flare, but Chip's photo a few pages back reminded me of a series I took on a rainy Seattle evening some years ago.  These are not my usual photographs at all, but the play of light through a rain-spattered windshield in (stopped) downtown traffic was irresistible, as I happened to have a camera to hand.  These from a Tokina 11-16 mm on a D7000, propped above the dashboard.  Here in Seattle it rains a lot, and I wear glasses, so this is what my world looks like when I walk around without my hat.

Cheers,  John

[Bruno Schroder]

I like your rainy city with no hat, John

[Jakov Minić]

Both are really nice, John.

[golunvolo]

Here in Seattle it rains a lot, and I wear glasses, so this is what my world looks like when I walk around without my hat.

Cheers,  John

  Excellent John. No glasses here but I do ride in the rain and can relate.  This representation works very, very well.

[Thomas G]

These 'night traffic in rain' photos are to my liking.

Due to obvious reasons this has been titled xenonphobic love

[Bruno Schroder]

Primula (elatior?) and 55/1.2 CRT, missing focus as it was really too wet to lay on the ground

Edit: I only realise now, 3days later, that I put this in the wrong thread; it should be in Unsharp.

[Thomas G]

Not really lens flare, but Chip's photo a few pages back reminded me of a series I took on a rainy Seattle evening some years ago.  These are not my usual photographs at all, but the play of light through a rain-spattered windshield in (stopped) downtown traffic was irresistible, as I happened to have a camera to hand.  These from a Tokina 11-16 mm on a D7000, propped above the dashboard.  Here in Seattle it rains a lot, and I wear glasses, so this is what my world looks like when I walk around without my hat.

Cheers,  John

The second one is looking very nice and convincing to me. Very seldom you find sufficient green light to simulate a tree line like that. Great stuff.

[Fons Baerken]

Copenhagen, Df 20mm f/1.8g

[Jakov Minić]

Fons, you put good use to the 20/1.8G.
I always wanted that lens.
(you might have some dust on the sensor)

[rosko]

Edit: I only realise now, 3days later, that I put this in the wrong thread; it should be in Unsharp.

Or ''painting with lenses''

Below : very backlit image with Df + Zeiss 35mm f/2 ZF2
@ f/5.6.

[Fons Baerken]

Fons, you put good use to the 20/1.8G.
I always wanted that lens.
(you might have some dust on the sensor)

Dust blows back and forth, I change lenses too often

[the solitaire]

How cool is that! A lens flare topic!

None of these were added in photoshop, regardless of how much post processing I did on the image

DSC_7615 by b j, on Flickr

Creating soap bubbles with the 5cm f2 Nikkor-S

DSC_7721 by b j, on Flickr

Sunstars with the 16mm f3,5 Fish-eye

DSC_7576 by b j, on Flickr

Multicoated flare from the 105mm f2,5 Nikkor-P.C

DSC_9586 by b j, on Flickr

Searching for flare UFO's with the 20mm f3,5 Nikkor-UD

DSC_7968 by b j, on Flickr