• TimeSquirrel
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    5714 hours ago

    My high school graphic arts teacher: “I see you using lens flare, it’s an automatic fail for my class, got it?”

    This motherfucker:

    • @someguy3
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      1112 hours ago

      What if it’s accidental lens flare?

        • @qisope
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          1611 hours ago

          What if sunlight hits your Photoshop at just the right angle?

  • Flying SquidM
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    3514 hours ago

    “THERE ARE AN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBER OF LIGHTS!”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    I will never understand why video games want these effects in them. Am I playing as a fucking camera? The only games where these lens effects make any sense is like a cyberpunk game where you have robot eyes or you’re actually watching through a camera.

    Real eyes don’t get lens flares. Real eyes don’t see chromatic aberration. Or film grain. Or have vignettes. Real eyes realize real lies.

    • @Khanzarate
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      Aha but I have astigmatism.

      So I really do get lens flare in real life.

      It’s rather annoying. Some TVs in certain lighting situations actually compound my astigmatism with the lens flare to make ultra flares.

      And traffic lights at night, they’re the biggest offender

      • Same.

        Also, about 2/3 of the population of the US wears some form of corrective vision prosthetic; this doesn’t include the number of people who wear reading glasses, although it does include Contact lens wearers. In any case, about half the population is seeing lens flare and chromatic aberration on the regular.

        • @[email protected]
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          Film grain was mostly a joke. When your lenses get dirty, it does look like film grain is everywhere.

          Chromatic aberration, definitely. The middle of the lens is typically clear, but anything off-center gets shifted a bit, the stronger the lenses, the more noticeable it gets.

          • @IonAddis
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            19 hours ago

            Yep. I eventually realized the car headlights don’t actually have a blue LED dot included in them…my glasses and/or crappy eyes are doing something funny that splits out a blue dot.

        • @soloner
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          112 hours ago

          Maybe if they get really really stoned they unlock those additional effects

    • @PlasticExistence
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      212 hours ago

      Real eyes see through the lies of the Jedi!

      Oh, wait. Wrong community.

  • NaibofTabr
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    1614 hours ago

    Our shields can’t repel lens flares of that magnitude!

    • Sundray
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      78 hours ago

      “Curtains, sir?”

      “Yes, the curtains.”

  • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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    At some point there was an explanation that the lens flares were supposed to be subtext, a visual representation of the old phrase “bright future” and for a microsecond it almost made sense…until you realized how stupid that sounded and unbelievably annoying it was on screen.

    • Sundray
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      I think JJ attempted to use lens flares as a kind of directorial “signature,” (like Lucas’ wipe transitions or Wes Anderson’s symmetrical framing) but it just annoyed people and JJ is a hack.

    • OpenStars
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      19 hours ago

      Them: how can we justify making money?💲💰💸

      You, with an actual brain: hrmph!😦😞

  • _NetNomad
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    414 hours ago

    we watching the Picard S3 finale when they’re back on the D (or E?)