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Shooting Challenge: Lens Flare Gallery Part Two

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This was a Sony Cybershot H55 , Zion Park in Utah, the hike was angles landing

-Thomas Cleveland

This is a shot of cattails in front of the sun. I used a Canon Rebel XT with a Canon 28-105mm lens at 105mm, f/4, 1/4000 and ISO 100.

-Joe Russo

Canon T1i

Canon 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 Kit Lens

ISO: 200

Focal Length: 18mm

Aperture: f/7.1

Exposure: 1/320

-Dave Dunn

Canon T2i

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 – Nifty Fifty

ISO 400

f/1.8

1/2500 Sec

‘No Place Like Home’

-Jamin Bricker

Canon 40d

Tamron 17-50

f/9.5

1/350

ISO 100

Shot at the Aberdeen National Cemetery

-Conor Brophy

Camera: Olympus E-510

Lens: Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f 1:3.5-5.6 (kit lens)

Exposure: 0.040s (1/25), f/20.0, ISO 100

Focal Length: 15mm (30mm 35mm equivalent)

-Mark Clem

My wife’s watering can.

Canon xsi

f 8.0

ISO 400

-Robert Huber

“Lovely day for pushing a bike around”

Nikon D40X: 1/50s, 18mm Nikkor Lens, f/22, ISO 200.

-Brett Massecre

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel XT

Lens: Kit Lens (18-55)

F/3.5

Exposure Time: 3.2 seconds

ISO: 100

I used a flashlight just out of the shot and moved it around to get the arcing and scattered flare.

-Joe Huber

Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i

Focal Length: 28

F number: 4

Exposure Time: 1/60

-Victor Flores

Shot was taken with a Nikon D90, 18-200mm zoom, and B+W UV Haze

Filter. The halo ring effect is produced at 18mm pointed directly at

the sun. I used random people walking along Puget Sound as subjects.

– Nick Sprankle

Canon T1i

EF-S 55-250mm lens

Focal length: 131mm (210mm effectively)

f/5.0

1/200

ISO 400

-Louie Livon-Bemel

Canon 1DMkIV with a 50mm f/1.4.

Shot at f/2.5 at 1/200 sec.

-JR Reyes

Taken with a Canon s90, exposure 1/1250 second and f/8.0, ISO 100.

My model held her hand in front of the sun while I squinted and framed the shot as best I could.

-Brian Hall

Taken with SIgma dp-1 with Infrared filter at 19 hour.

ISO 200 – F4,5 1/6

-Jacques Sadik

Canon 350D

50mm f/1.4

1/1250 sec.

ISO 100

Lazing on the Grass, in the Afternoon Sun.

-Toan Tran

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T1i

Lens: Canon EF 22-55mm

Aperture: 7.625

Exposure Time: 1/160

ISO: 100

-Ryan Clark

This was a set I was doing decided to experiment a little with light, I’m shooting with a Nikon D700 and a Tamaron 28-75mm

-Pablo N. Piedra

ISO 100, f3.5, shutter speed 0.8, focal length 10mm.

I tried to get some flare at night because i’ve gotten plenty of it from the sun before and wanted to do something different. a flash manually triggered with green gel was the light source.

-Noah Garbarino

Took this on my iPhone 3gs from the parking lot of Epcot in Orlando

Florida. A plane was writing a message in the sky around 6:00pm right

in front of the sun.

-Prem Thomas

Camera: Pentax K-X

Lens: Pentax SMC-M 50mm 1.4

Manual Mode

f/2.8

ISO 100

1/2000 sec.

The location of the photo is a shrine of sorts called the Bike Church in Tucson. It

-Brian Hert

Nikon D90, 18-105 kit lens, shot at – 85mm, f5.6, 1/200s, ISO 100.

Saturday was the first sunny day in weeks in Idaho. Shot this early morning ray of light that

illuminated two flower buds

-Mike Beiser

Equipment: my iphone 3gs

Technique: shot through the windshield of our car near dusk.

-Joel Demant

Took this picture with my Canon XSi at f/5.6, 1/250th, ISO 200, Canon 55-250mm Lens at full zoom.

-JR McDonnel

Shutter 1/40

F/5.3

95mm Focal

ISO 200

Shot off my friends back porch, they had a nice view of the Red Rock Mountains.

-Rico Nolan

Sunny Seattle Saturday

Canon 7D with EF-S 10-22mm lens.

10mm, ISO 100, f/10, 1/250 sec.

– David Lee

I shot the photo with my newly purchased Canon T2i and the Canon 50mm f1.8 II. The photo is shot at 1600 ISO (it’s dark in there!), F/2.0, 1/80sec shutter

Jon Marzette playing an acoustic show

-Quinn Brabender

Nikon D70

78mm

5 seconds

f4.5

ISO 200

I couldn’t find the sun during the rainy weekend, so I opted to take this shot of a streetlamp outside my house.

-Matt Sills

I shot it with a Canon EOS 50D and a Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 EF IS lens.

ISO : 100

speed : 1/25s

aperture : f/4.0

focal lenght : 41mm

-Celine Ruffino

Camera: Canon EOS 450D

Lens: 50mm 1.8f II

Shutter speed: 1/1000

ISO:100

Aperture: f/13

-Gary Grant

“Aspiring”

Canon TZ65

Bristol St Mary Redcliffe church

ISO 80, manual

forced a slow shutter speed by focusing into a shaded area and then re-framing to get the brilliantly bright sky and detail in the church foreground despite being so strongly backlit.

-Gary Hawkins

Camera: Panasonic FZ38

Aperture: f/2.8

Exposure: 1/50 second

ISO: 80

Macro focus

The subject is my old Cybershot camera, with a halogen desk light pointed at it from close range.

-Alex Hill

I was using my iPhone GPS when I saw Cheers come up near me so I jogged over and snapped this.

Camera: Apple iPhone 3G

F-Stop: f/2.8

Time: 7:19am

-Jaime Bullon

Canon Rebel T1i

1/200

ISO-100

41 mm

Kit Lens

-Kevin Vanderwielen

Canon Rebel T1i

f/9

1/200 sec

ISO 100

-Lindsey Bye

shot was taken with my iPhone 3G while kayaking on the Potomac River in DC at twilight, sun setting under the Key Bridge.

-Tim Brown

Canon Rebel T1i

ISO 400

1/100

5.6

-Steven Painchaud

Setting sun in Weimar, Germany, across my flat in the late afternoon. Notice the wallpainting on the right.

Taken with a Canon EOS 550D and Carl Zeiss Flektogon 35mm/2.4, open aperture, handheld.

-Andreas Trapper

-Sally Reece

It’s my parrot’s feet on my knee in early morning.

Camera: Panasonic DMC-TS1

F/3.3

Exposure time 1/30

ISO 320

Exposure Comp -.3 step.

-Phil Gullett

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS

Lens: EF-S 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 IS

Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec

ISO: 400

F-Stop: f/11

Focal Length: 24mm

Flash: Not Fired

For this shot I was standing under an old rusty metal beam at about 11am with the sun directly over head.

-Mindy Elias

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi

Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM

Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec

ISO: 400

F-Stop: f/16

Focal Length: 17mm

Flash: Fired

This was taken at White’s Ferry in Maryland

-Drew Elias

I used a nikon d40, with a 18-55mm lens at 55mm, Iso 200, shutter speed was 800 and f.stop was 5.6. What i did was put a crystal on a mirror in the sunlight and got the right angle, then took the picture.

-Reese Milne

‘It’s a Dogs Life’

Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Nikon 18-55mm

ISO 200

f/14.0

1/50 sec exposure

Simple shot just got the dog to sit still for a bit

-Eric Geary

Canon EOS Rebel T1i

ISO 100

Focal Length: 24mm

F-Stop: 9

Shutter speed: 1/320

Lens: Canon EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Faux Golden Gate Bridge at Disney’s California Adventure.

-Warren Sasahara

Picture taken of the front of my Dodge Ram truck at 9PM at night.

Headlights on and a nice flare off the lens.

Taken with my Canon EOS rebel T2i.

Aperture priority and shutter speed of 2 seconds.

At f 9.5 ISO 200 Used a EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens

at 33mm focal length

-John McNamara

I have a Rebel T1I

The shutter speed was 1/800 second

Aperture was at F 18.0

Metering was evaluative ( haven’t yet figured out how to do custom metering )

I had the exposure compensation set at -2

Focal length was 28mm

-Faith McDonald

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T1i

Lens: Canon EF-S 55mm-250mm IS

F: 16

Speed: 1/20

ISO: 100

Sunset over a swamp/lake

-Keith Miller

Shot with my brand new Canon 7D and kit lens (that’s all I had at the time). I set the lens on the 28mm side, Av, f/3.5. Shot straight up through the tree branches.

-Lin Dunsmore

Canon SX210

Lens 5.0 – 70.0 mm

Aperture 3.625

Flash enabled

We were exploring a new road when we came upon this quiet little home built between strands of barbed wire. I thought the sunset really brought it together with the brush in the background

-Juan Ozuna

taken at a street festival in Little Italy in Montreal for the Formula 1 race over the weekend. I mainly took this picture because I wanted to capture the kids checking out the car, and have the Gallardo in the picture as well. I think the lens flare helps create a sense of how awesome these Lambos are! Equipment is a Canon 7D with a EF-S 15-85mm IS lens.

-Matt Gleiner

Pentax K-x

kit lens

F16

1/250

+3 EV

55mm

ISO 400

sunset

-Mellanie Fuller

Camera: Nikon D70

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm

Focal lenght: 62mm

Aoerture: F4.5

ISO: 200

Shutter: 1/80

Time of Day: 7:50 PDT

-Ricky Sahu

ISO 400, F3.5 @ 1/640. Shot with a Nikon D40 with a fixed 50mm manual focus lens.

-Abby Thompson

My wife and I had an impromptu photo shoot tonight. I used my 7d with a 17-40L.

-Trevor Oleniuk

Equipment: Canon Rebel XS, f/7.1, ISO-100, exp.2.5″

Setup: I was actually working on an HDR and found these great flare shots in my sets. It was really interesting standing on a major bridge with a tripod waving to traffic as it goes by.

-Justin Fidone

‘Through the Canopy’

ISO 200

f/16

1/400 Sec

I shoot with a Nikon D90 and a 50mm 1:1.4D Lens. There is this great walking spot by the river where I live in Medicine Hat, AB Canada.

-Brendon Toderian

The camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28

-Joel McNierney

The second is 70s super-flare. Mind-exploding, pentagon-appearing,

mulit-colored flareplosion. Canon t2i, 70-200 @ f/22, ISO 1600.

-Michael Koperwas

i shot this picture at vernal falls in yoemite.

Canon 50D

Sigma 17-17mm with 19mm

f9 at 1/320

and 400 ISO

-Herbert Fresacher

Aimed at the sun.

Canon Rebel XSi, 15-55mm lens

Aperture: f / 22

Shutter Speed: 1/60s

ISO: ISO 100

-Eric-John Bigelow

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