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Originally posted by NGC2736
Let's start easy here, with wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org...
Note the first two pictures on the right hand side of the page. In both, the flare washes out the image, toning down the view.
In no picture here is the flare itself less visable than the object of the photo.
They appear superimposed "over" the object directly behind them. This is never appearant in the China Photo, to my eye.
Anti-reflective coating, used to reduce lens flare and produces the red and green colors common in lens flare.
The exact nature of the coating determines the appearance of the coated optic; common AR coatings on eyeglasses and photographic lenses often look somewhat bluish (since they reflect slightly more blue light than other visible wavelengths), though green and pink-tinged coatings are also used.
Originally posted by NGC2736
At the risk of sounding as if I'm harping on one small aspect, and please believe me when I say you present the case very well, at least to my limited understanding of the subject, I am left with a few nagging questions.
Why are there no other outside/beforehand instances of photos displaying these properties?
In the China photo we have a multiple britght light source, yet only a single defined lens flare? Where are the other expected lens flares so evident in other simular photos of mundane known scenes?
In the China photo we have a continuous shape with a desolving effect, dispite the shifting of the green laser lights which you attribute for the initial colorization. (If there was a color shift due to repositioning of the laser lights, is it not reasonable that there should have been an alteration in the shape of the flare; as seen in other photos? if not an outright repositiong of the whole?)
And finally, why would this manifest as a green flare when the light source is not, if the flare is produced by a light source not associated with the laser lights? There seems little reason to suppose that a flare, on the camera lens, would adopt acolor from another part of the photo. as this is not born out in simular photos where lens flare color has no seeming relation to surroundings.
Originally posted by s0ndernet
The object in question is clearly behind the green laser lines, a lense flare would manifest in the foreground without question.