Proper play with new camera!!

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

The 18-55mm kit lens with the D5000 is very prone to lens flare, great if you want it, not so great if you don't...

If you did want to edit them you could desaturate the colours a bit and sharpen slightly to give the image the cool and crisp feeling you'd expect on a morning like that, but they're fine as is...

Hold on wolfman, first you go on about, sorry in jock, you go on aboot lens flare, then say they are fine, make your mind up, i have already expressed my opinion on the pics, pretty cool imo.

Nic, i really like the 3rd pic, its a cracking capture that, well done

Originally Posted by specialone

Nic, i really like the 3rd pic, its a cracking capture that, well done

love the fourth one myself, imo seems to be framed perfectly, would love it full size, get out there more nick you obviously have a knack for it, get it nick knack Ps, what time of day were these taken?. Re-read the op, i'm guessing 3-4pm, but you is oop north and get longer daylight than us.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by bluefishman

Hold on wolfman, first you go on about, sorry in jock, you go on aboot lens flare, then say they are fine, make your mind up

And where did I say lens flare was always a bad thing?

Seriously dude, read and understand someone's post before dissecting it...

looks like the dogs saying 'get that outta my face, you've been warned for the last time'.

Cheers guys, thanks for the feedback.

BFM, t'wasn't a spiders web, was a whole lot of lil branches, I walked past and saw them and thought, thats cool, looks like a spiders web. Glad you got what I was going for there.

They were taken about half 3-ish.

Nice pics MBK

Ed, see the mini suns on the 1st and 3rd pics (amongst others but mroe obvious in those two), all in a line and going across the picture? That's lens flare, basically it's light reflecting off of each of the lens' elements (or internal lenses).

HTH

Si.

[Bri w]

Nice...even like the inhomogenetics thingy Wolfie was on about - does that mean they're organic, like free range?

Like the first web one with the green flare

Like your work, I can't take pics for toffee.
Not jealous much

[keith_d]

Personally, I'm not keen on lens flare and try to minimise it where possible.

There are two types of flare, one is the coloured blobs when the sun is in the frame, or just out of view. These are typically the shape of the lens iris and are fairly common when shooting into the sun.

The other more subtle kind of flare is where sunlight is shining on the front of a lens and being scattered inside so that all of the image gets a little more light. This means the black parts of the image are less black and contrast gets reduced.

To minimise flare I try to keep the sun out of the frame either by framing my shot differently or hiding it behind a tree. If you have a lens hood, this helps to keep the sun from shining on the lens, but sometimes you might want to use your hand as well.

A good way to test this for yourself is to put your camera on a tripod facing a dark subject like conifers, so that the sun is just out of the frame. Make small adjustments and look at where the flare is visible.