Happy Flare-tuesday
Inspired by JJ Abram’s ridiculous liberal use of lens flare in Star Trek, I’ve been messing with flares on my own time. Using a basic dSLR and with various lenses at different aperture settings…
Canon EF 100mm F2 @ F22
EF 50mm F1.4
You’ll notice the shape of the flare is very different for different lenses, and also the aperture size(F-stop setting) plays a big part in defining the shape of the flare as well. In general, large f-number(F22) gives a more defined star-burst shape to the flare, while a small f-number (F1.4) gives a softer looking flare.
Anamorphic lens flares, which looks ‘cooler’ in my opinion, are harder to reproduce on a regular consumer camera because they require special anamorphic lenses.
Do you think there’s a way to improve blenders lenses flares?
I think people are working on improving it for the Sintel project. We’ll probably see some really cool looking flares soon!
Ha, I wonder how many of those google image ana flares are real?! Thats the hard thing today, getting acurate reference, in this cause I thank you, any chance of adding the aperture to those extra photos of yours?
Have you seen the thread at Blenderartists, where someone actualy made a 3D flare object? would be a cool lighting layer object to layer to rig into a scene.
I guess some of them must be added in post-processing. Filming flare is kinda dangerous, too much light can easily ruin the shot, and it’s hard to recover the image when it’s just a wash of white. Adding them in post is much ’safer’. But some might claim it’s less authentic.