My high school graphic arts teacher: "I see you using lens flare, it's an automatic fail for my class, got it?"
This motherfucker:
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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What if it's accidental lens flare?
They were talking about the built in Photoshop effect.
What if sunlight hits your Photoshop at just the right angle?
"I swear, don't fail me, just close the window shades!"
Tinkerbell has a posse.
"THERE ARE AN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBER OF LIGHTS!"
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.
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.
People who wear glasses can get all three of those.
Wearing glasses makes you get chromatic aberration and film grain? 🤨
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.
your supposed to clean your glasses? aw shit
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.
Maybe if they get really really stoned they unlock those additional effects
Let me tell you about optical migraines, it’s like having a built in etch a sketch overlay onto your vision.
The first time it happens you shit bricks wondering if you’re having a heart attack at like 20. Good times on top of lensflare astigmatism you end up like a personal biological photoshop to real life.
No no, see, you're wearing six pairs of glasses.
Real eyes see through the lies of the Jedi!
Oh, wait. Wrong community.
Polarize the view screen
Our shields can't repel lens flares of that magnitude!
Still the best variant of this idea:
Activate lens flare deflectors
"Curtains, sir?"
"Yes, the curtains."
It's the Allspark! Wait, no, it's the Borg.
Lol .... the Borg cube transforms into a pyramid
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.
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.
Them: how can we justify making money?💲💰💸
You, with an actual brain: hrmph!😦😞
My eyes! The Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement does nothing!
we watching the Picard S3 finale when they're back on the D (or E?)
Loved when LD:Crisis Point: Rise of Vindicta poked fun at this.
Although honestly, moderately enjoy at least the first Abramsverse film - not peak Trek, but fun enough. For a while, I thought Pine was the best Kirk performance in the franchise, but then SNW Kirk grew on me with the La’an episode and I think it’s tied.