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Exploring other strategies for avoiding lens flares

Exploring other strategies for avoiding lens flares

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Exploring other strategies for avoiding lens flares

Robbie Carman: So Rich, we've talked about using lens hoods that come with lenses, we've talked about using a matte box, and both these options work pretty well, but there's a practical technique that gaffers and DPs have been comfortable with for seemingly ever. What is that? Richard Harrington: Flagging the shot. Basically putting something between the lens and the offending light source. Robbie Carman: Okay. So we have a lot of different ways of doing this though, don't we? We have you know pretty simple straightforward ways or we could build very complex systems. Richard Harrington: Yeah, I think you know you've actually got a flag here. Robbie Carman: Yeah. Richard Harrington: And it's just a piece of fabric in a frame. Robbie Carman: Yep. Richard Harrington: Now this is a professional one and this could be attached to a C-stand. There's a little thing there that you can attach to the knuckle and it'll hold that, you can position it or you can have an assistant hold it up, but…

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