Each image on The Lens Flare receives a score from 1 to 100.  This number is updated every night and is used, in part, to determine which order the images show up in the various galleries.  You can view your image’s scores by visiting the “Manage Images” page in your dashboard.
There are many aspects that […]

ISO, in the ancient days of film, represented the film “speed” or how much light was needed to expose the film properly. Film was typically rated from 200 to 800.  The lower the number, the more light was needed for proper exposure.  Many professionals opted for the lowest ISO film they could find because these […]

We’ve recently added a list of alphabetical links so that you can browse different photographers and artists quickly and easily.
By visiting the Photographers and Artists member page, you’ll see a list of links for each letter in the alphabet and a link for new members.  Clicking on a link will allow you to see all […]

Photography is literally painting with light and this is the single most important thing that you need to know how to control in photography. Outdoor photography is very different from shooting indoors namely because you can’t control your main light source, the sun. The sun is more harsh than any indoor light, and […]

One of the most exciting things about digital photography is not the camera itself, but what you can do with the photo after the fact using various software programs such as Photoshop Elements or CS3.
A popular thing to do is to take 2 or more images and merge them together forming a composite image. […]

I’ve recently made a few changes to the gallery image pages to make it a little more logical.
This logic started bouncing around my head since I added the 3 ‘related pictures’ to the bottom the gallery page.  The first version had 3 related pictures from the site, but not the person.  After criticism of this […]

When posting pictures on the Internet, I’ve often said to people, “This picture is way better when viewed full size because so much of the detail is lost when it’s reduced to fit on a webpage.”
And it’s true, so to counter that, members of The Lens Flare can now upload multiple views of the same […]

NEF files are the Nikon RAW format.  Canon and the others will have their own RAW format, which might have the extension RAW or something else; however, they essentially work the same.
RAW files are not compressed, which allows you to ultimately print them bigger with better quality than JPG files.  For example, I can print […]

Lens flare is a bright light that causes undesired artifacts in your picture, which is usually a polygonal shape like starbursts, circles, or rings in a row across the image. It can also be in the form of a glare across the whole picture, which reduces contrast. The shape of the lens flare is […]

It’s quick and easy to enter a free contest at The Lens Flare by following these steps:

Login to The Lens Flare by entering your user name and password into the login fields near the top of the page in the blue bar.
Visit the contest page.
Click on “Submit Artwork” near the contest that you want to […]