I Like Flare!

cmogi10

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Carl, if you like flare, I have an extra Summar that's really clean. I think you might dig it. I'll bring next beer meet.
 
Sometimes there's a "logic" to the flare---It makes sense, as when it's clearly "caused" by a particular source----the sun or a street lamp, which is an element of the photo--or even out of the frame but obviously active in the lighting. Flare in these cases feels like vision because it can make me squint----feels like the camera lens just replicates what my eye lens does

Flare in the posted photo is a little bit interesting---it adds something to mood and compositionally. But it doesn't seem like an organic element. I can't understand it's source or it's reason, and it therefore calls my attention to it as artifice.
 
I like flare too!!
Apparently you have to have at least 15 pieces of it on your uniform but pretty boy likes to have 37.... which Joanna feels should be the minimum... 😀

Dave
 
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