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Hiya friends!
Do we love flare and overexposure or do we hate it? Do we call it high key or a mistake?
I am very attracted to it and prefer it. What are people asking for these days?
I would love some opinions on this..thank you!
Sharon
:)Hi Sharon,
I really like flare and ghosting in certain circumstances.
It is used in film to great effect and while there are many people who
dont care for it I think it can add to some images. here are a few of mine.
DenverDoll wrote:
Hiya friends!
Do we love flare and overexposure or do we hate it?
Or, do we use it, and do we control it?
I like flare, or at least, certain types of flare-
in some of my older lenses, it takes the edge off the contrast,
and makes them more suitable for photographing ladies, for example.However, one of my more recent older ones (lenses) had too much flare-
a projection lens, not designed for the purpose I was using it for,
so I had to add to the interior baffling, and use shading, and it’s better now-
still produces flare, but it’s managed-I didn’t like the results from its exposed, uncoated optics,
although that might be the type of flare you might have been talking about-If I can remember far back enough, flare was defined as ‘non image forming light’-
and if it doesn’t form an image, and it’s in your camera, then it’s reducing contrast-
locally or overall-Anyway, I don’t like the kind of flare that tells you how many elements you have in your zoom,
that tells me I’ve got a small number of aperture blades, or a large number,
that tells me that I really should have used a shade for the lens,
or that tells me that my bellows are not black enough inside-
(sorry Alan)Overexposure?
I like it on digital-
up to about just over a stop, or a stop and a half, according to the histogram-
that’s the amount of overhead I can claw back in processing.As the camera converts to a jpeg for the display, some flashing highlights are good,
and can be retrieved.In film photography, overexposure can be used, along with decreased development,
to increase the subject brightness range that you’re able to capture-Overexposure along with overdevelopment is seldom seen to be a good thing…
Apart from that, I’d need to see the pictures you’re talking about-
I’d most likely agree with you that they’re good-
but if I was using flarey optics and lax metering techniques,
then something would be wrong.Either that, or I’d be meeting up with you for LoFi day….
And for the few exposures I didn’t meter, underexposure was more of a problem-Hi Sharon. I think it really depends on the subject that is being photographed. It can work very well in one shot, while totally ruining another shot (even of the same subject). I think it’s really a personal choice kind of thing most of the time as to whether it adds or takes away from the image.
Good question Sharon…. it’s something I think about sometimes….. and personally I like flare… it adds a sort of dreamy effect to the picutres… of course it’s good and the “right” pics… I mean, a lanscape…. maybe a portrait.. I dont’ know if I would like it in a “harsh” street scene or maybe yes if it makes an interesting contrast….
Very interesting topic and a question I have asked myself a number of times. I think it really depends on the shot and whether it adds to it or detracts from it, as Alessia said, sometimes it adds a nice dreamy effect, but other times I find it a bloody nuisance, I struggle with flare with my sigma 10-20, where I find it more often than not detracts from the image.
I would be interesting to see some shots, were people feel it adds to the image.
It can be a bloody nuisance is right but as Joseph points out
the control factor, if that can be achieved flare can enhance a scene.Here is one I shot intentionally yesterday morning.
The subject is quite boring but I was experimenting as to whether
I could get the red outer halo that the Zuiko 21mm 3.5 produces.
it the right scene and subject this can be quite impressive.French cinema has been using this technique for many years. They call it contre jour, “into the light’. Spotted it on a perfume commercial over the summer,
Dave
as I said before film makers in general tend to use flare.
I quite like it meself, can you tell? :lol:
thanks gaffo, yea i like sonme of those
shots with the light flaring past the models.
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