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How to Actually Shoot Lens Flare In-Camera (Aperture Is the Secret Weapon)
I used to add lens flare in Photoshop like everyone else. Slap on a filter, adjust the opacity, call it a day. It looked fine. It also looked fake in a way I couldn’t quite articulate until I started shooting more backlit portraits and realized the real thing has a quality that no filter fully replicates. The way it interacts with your subject, the way it breathes when you shift the camera slightly - that’s not something a Photoshop preset can fake convincingly.