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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #13

Lens flare

Rings and spots of light from a bright source in the lens. As the sun comes out from behind a building, rays appear around it and a line of light dots, hexagons and a ring runs from the sun through the centre of the frame to the opposite side.

Lens & camera effectslens flareflareghostingsun flarestarburstcinematic

Full motion specification

How the movement works

To add glare, summer sunshine or a cinematic light feel.

  1. 01Scene 2: a street corner; buildings, trees and street lamps (x 114, 292, 494) behind a road at y 132–162; the person stands front left (feet at x 176, y 200, 124 px tall).
  2. 02Sun: radius 13 px, from behind a building (x 428, y 74) to open sky (x 474, y 30)
  3. 03Rays: 8, from 17 px out from the centre of the sun to 26 px or 44 px, alternating (9 px and 27 px long; amber, 1.6 px, 75%)
  4. 04Flare: on the line from the sun through the centre at t = 0.45, 0.8, 1.15, 1.45, 1.75 and 2.0 (t = 1 is the centre): a 7 px circle, a 13 px hexagon, a 5 px circle, a 22 px hexagon, a 9 px circle and a 30 px ring (3 px line)
  5. 05Colours amber #FFC75A and #FFE3A3 at 40–70% × the effect
  6. 06Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))

Prompt

Mountain landscape with the sun in frame and lens flare: coloured ghosts lined up from the sun through the centre to the opposite side.