Avoiding Flare

The flare is caused by a combination of the filter and the lens. Maybe a better UV might reduce it, but just take it off and you'll be better off... As for the lens, some of them, particularly wide angles suffer from flare quite badly. My Sigma 18-50 goes crazy with flare...
 
As desantnik said, i have seen somewhere that you are better off without filters as these can cause flare because of the extra glass before the main lens...

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It's undoubedly the filters making things worse, but you can hardly expect to shoot directly into the sun and get a perfect result. Relative to the rest of the image, the sun is massively brighter.

Even the best quality filters cause some flare, and I bet your grad is uncoated acrylic. They are never very good.

The flare spot against the trees is in the right spot for it to be a reflection of the sun, bouncing off the sensor and then back again off the back of the filter.

Shoot without filters and try a grad effect in post processing, or do it with HDR technique is prolly favourite in that situation.
 
desantnik said:
The flare is caused by a combination of the filter and the lens. Maybe a better UV might reduce it, but just take it off and you'll be better off... As for the lens, some of them, particularly wide angles suffer from flare quite badly. My Sigma 18-50 goes crazy with flare...
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markw08 said:
As desantnik said, i have seen somewhere that you are better off without filters as these can cause flare because of the extra glass before the main lens...

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HoppyUK said:
It's undoubedly the filters making things worse, but you can hardly expect to shoot directly into the sun and get a perfect result. Relative to the rest of the image, the sun is massively brighter.

Even the best quality filters cause some flare, and I bet your grad is uncoated acrylic. They are never very good.

The flare spot against the trees is in the right spot for it to be a reflection of the sun, bouncing off the sensor and then back again off the back of the filter.

Shoot without filters and try a grad effect in post processing, or do it with HDR technique is prolly favourite in that situation.
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Thanks for the replies. I will try without filters and maybe go down the HDR route if it works.
 
Peter10d said:
Thanks for the replies. I will try without filters and maybe go down the HDR route if it works.
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That is the WORST thing you could think of. For that shot you must use grad filters. You could get better ones if needed.

The flare is minimal, and could be easily cloned out in post by 1 click.

Now HDR is a seriously good way to completely ruin everything :thumbs:
 
daugirdas said:
That is the WORST thing you could think of. For that shot you must use grad filters. You could get better ones if needed.
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Why is a grad better than HDR? Who makes a significantly better quality grad, that would eliminate or even reduce the flare, which is the result of reflection off the back of an uncoated filter surface?

I don't know of any resin/acrylic filter that is coated.

The flare is minimal, and could be easily cloned out in post by 1 click.

Now HDR is a seriously good way to completely ruin everything :thumbs:
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Why would HRD ruin it?
 
The flare in your pic is minimal and very well controlled. I'd leave it - think of how many times you see flare in movies deliberately left in as a stylistic decision by the director/DP

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