Star flares w/o star filter? Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how? Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated. Thanks all...

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Star flares w/o star filter?

Sep 5, 2020 17:18:06 #

Mark1948

Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how?
Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated.

Thanks all

Sep 5, 2020 17:29:05 #

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Mark1948 wrote:

Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how?
Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated.

Thanks all

I don’t know if a computer can do it for you, but you can get them yourself using a small aperture. F/16 or smaller.

Sep 5, 2020 17:53:09 #

Mark1948

Thanks Mac. I have done that shooting in the direction of the sun. Because I like extreme wide angle lenses that make filters problematic, i was wondering if there's a way, in post processing, to create the effect when shooting city night lights or maybe in the rain.

Sep 5, 2020 18:14:25 #

Quixdraw Loc: x

Very old film era trick - try a piece of aluminum screen. You can cut it to size and attach to a filter with a couple of scraps of blue painter's tape.

Sep 5, 2020 18:23:04 #

Mark1948

That'd work. Thanks

Sep 5, 2020 21:40:54 #

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Mark1948 wrote:

Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how?
Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated.

Thanks all

Pretty sure you can't do this in Lightroom, but it's not hard to do in Photoshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DcsfIovlFM

Better yet, make sure your lens is clean, and look for a high contrast subject. You don't have to use F16 either. These were done without anything between the lens and the subject, and the starbursts were not created or enhanced in Photoshop. These are on the raw files as they were taken. I used an old 80-200mm F2.8 AF-D lens which made very crisply defined starbursts.

F6.3

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F5.0
F5.0...

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F10.0
F10.0...

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Sep 6, 2020 08:03:45 #

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Mark1948 wrote:

Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how?
Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated.

Thanks all

Shoot at the smallest aperture your lens can go. F22, f32, etc.

Sep 6, 2020 09:12:30 #

Abo

f11 with an old Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AF-D film lens... no filter or post processing to get the "stars"; one on
the fuel tank, two on the mud guard:

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Sep 6, 2020 09:17:47 #

gessman Loc: Colorado

Mark1948 wrote:

Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how?
Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated.

Thanks all

Depends on how bad you want it... Topaz has a program/module that'll let you drop one in about anywhere. I don't have it but hey, it's Topaz. How could you go wrong. You can put starburst on mashed potatoes. Doesn't gt any better'n that. Isn't particularly cheap.

Sep 6, 2020 10:23:42 #

Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA

quixdraw wrote:

Very old film era trick - try a piece of aluminum screen. You can cut it to size and attach to a filter with a couple of scraps of blue painter's tape.

Another old photographers trick is use nose grease. I think the multi pointed (your choice) filter is the best way to go . . . but if you don't have a star burst filter with you you . . . the nose grease might be the only way to go.

Sep 6, 2020 13:19:50 #

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Mark1948 wrote:

Can the effect be created in Lightroom? If so how?
Although I'm told it can be done in PS, truth be told, I'm still a bit intimidated.

Thanks all

My understanding there is a way with Ps to do so. Saw it done once. Don't remember. I can do it with a f/2.8 zoom lens with lots of glass at tiny apertures.

Sep 6, 2020 14:23:14 #

speedmaster Loc: Kendall, FL

Try this...

https://youtu.be/uY6IOMaAsl8

Sep 6, 2020 17:19:56 #

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

billnikon wrote:

Shoot at the smallest aperture your lens can go. F22, f32, etc.

Unnecessary. And the loss of sharpness due to diffraction will not be easy to deal with.

Look at my examples taken at F5, F6.3 and F10 - totally not necessary to use F22 or F32. Not to mention that with such little light you'd be dealing with shutter speeds north of 20 mins, or really high ISOs and theire corresponding noise.

However, if you have some examples, please post them, like I did.

Sep 6, 2020 17:21:19 #

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

lamiaceae wrote:

My understanding there is a way with Ps to do so. Saw it done once. Don't remember. I can do it with a f/2.8 zoom lens with lots of glass at tiny apertures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DcsfIovlFM

But there are many approaches to doing this in Photoshop - this one is my favorite, though.

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