Is lens flare frowned upon? I posted a shot of a tree stump on Outside that had a bright blue flash that Joe said was caused by lens flare and it looked quite odd. However, i took the above shot this morning while walking the Mutt in the paddocks down the road. I wanted to get the very bright light from the sun intruding into the left of the shot whcih i've done but of course have got lens flare. I quite like it to be honest, makes me think of a bright, rhymy morning but in photography terms is this not the way you should do things? I know it doesn't matter but i'm curious.
How would you stop this happening but still get a strong increase in the light where the sun is? Filter or something as simple as a lens hood?
I lay down in the damp grass to take this and did intend to take 20 shots or so moving around with the sun at different angles but of course once i'd taken the second shot Mutley came rampaging across like a bull in a china shop and ran straight through the middle of the web with some poor spider clinging on at 100 miles an hour.
Regards
Paul