Flare

[Almazar80]

Testing out the Tokina 11-16mm lens on my A77. Taking a picture with the sun near the midst of the frame resulted in a flare filled image. I cleaned up the image a bit (getting rid of the big spots) and converted the picture into black and white. I don't know if it's the dust specks on the filter or dirt on the mirrot (I ended up cleaning both). I have to do more tests so I can learn how to use this lens. In the meantime, here is the picture of the BI boys novice crew team preparing for their Saturday morning row.




Thanks for looking.

[Birma]

Can't explain the technicalties of the shot, but I like the composition with the flare above the first rower, nice shot

[Almazar80]

I need to take more pictures with the 11-16mm lens to figure out how to use it effectively. Maybe, pictures without a point lightsource directly in the focal plane (with a clean filter or no filter at all) will be less "flary." Lots of learning to be done.

I am posting the pictures I post here, along with other pictures on my photoblog:

wmlsays.tumblr.com

Thanks for the comments.