Flare Adapter Lets You Purposely Leak Light Into Your Images
Nov 24, 2015
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
Share:
Some photographers do anything they can to avoid lens flares; others seek it out like their lives depend on it. If you fall into the latter category, Technical Farm has a product around the corner that might pique your interests.
It’s called the Flare Adapter.
As its name suggests, the Flare Adapter is a lens adapter made of transparent plastic. Unlike opaque adapters, this little gem lets light pass through to give your images the artistic touch flares can add to an image.
To customize the flare, you can block off how much light is entering your camera by using gaffers tape, objects in your surroundings or even your fingers if nothing else is nearby. If you’d rather add more light, you can do that too using the included LED lights.
https://vimeo.com/146182140
No price or release date has been determined, but Technical Farm says there will be a PL to E-mount, EF to EF and Ef to E-mount options to start out with.
Alternatively, you could by flare overlays for both stills and video. They might not be as customizable as the Flare Adapter, but I have a feeling they’ll be less expensive (and won’t take up any more room in your camera bag).
(via Fstoppers)
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
Join the Discussion
DIYP Comment Policy
Be nice, be on-topic, no personal information or flames.