Photographers everywhere have a love/hate relationship with lens flare. Sometimes it appears at the most inconvenient times and sometimes is recreated in the post-processing process as a creative effect. A bright light that doesn’t match the overall composition of your photo, like one from a sun’s ray, that reflects as an anomaly in your lens …

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A fairly common issue for photographers is chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration also goes by color fringing, dispersion, or purple fringing. How chromatic aberration occurs is important for photographers to clearly understand – and how to correct it is a crucial skill to have. When taking an image, the camera’s sensor point of focus is the …

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