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A form of glare, which has become a trope in its own right.
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It occurs when a bright object, usually the sun, is in the shot. The light causes a glare off every piece of glass it passes through on the way to the film or optical receiver. This causes a little ghostly chain of circles, on an imaginary line from the object through the center of the frame.
Notably, this camera glitch is included where it doesn't have to be, for dramatic effect, or to make something look like it was shot with a real camera (See [[The Coconut Effect]]).
In 3D CGI, the rendering engine can throw one in automatically. (See: the recent ''[[Star Trek]]'' opening sequences, ''Adobe Photoshop'''s "Lens Flare" plug-in.) Often, the software will even allow the user to specify the ''type'' of lens to be faked.
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* The music video for [[Eminem]]'s "Love the Way You Lie" uses about a million of these, making a gritty story about an abusive relationship oddly (visually) beautiful.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCCnxBos10 video] for the [[Michael Jackson]] / Akon duet "Hold My Hand", made well after Jackson died, abuses lens flares to give seemingly everything nice in the world an etherial, "magical" quality.
* The music video for [[Katy Perry]] 's music video for "E.T." has a few of these. These are probably computer generated.
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* Older ''[[Ace Combat]]'' games (such as Air and 2) has no lens flare. Conversely, it got really gratuitous in 3: Electrosphere (but it does look [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|awesome]]). Later games have it, but not as pronounced.
** It does serve quite functionally. If you line up the lens flare, you [[Captain Obvious|''will'' get disoriented by staring at the sun]]. Think that's not a big deal? The very first mission in Electrosphere has you heading towards the sunset to intercept some backup fighters. For a lack of better term, you basically ''couldn't see shit'' (aside from the lens flare that is).
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Majoras Mask]]'', the aliens glow which produces a lens flare. Because there is no cross hair while aiming you bow, this makes it easier to shoot them by lining up the circles of light.
* ''Perfect World International'''s debut trailer's use of lens flare was savaged by Kotaku's debut (and only) episode of Trailer Trash. Their response? Make a new trailer, ''[[Self-Deprecation|Now with more lens flare]]".
* '97 racing game ''POD'' featured lens flares around the sun of the alien planet the game was set on. Yes, that sun that was usually obscured by dark [[Blood Moon|red clouds]]. All you saw was the... lens flare.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' used a (rather subtle) lens flare during Pinkie Pie's song, "Smile, Smile, Smile."
== Other ==
* The simple presence of lens flares can be a useful aid in constructing a scene in 3D. Given most light sources on computers are points and have no actual size, having something show up there can be a big help when positioning lights.
* At the Iron Editor competition of Anime Central 2006 (think Iron Chef with AMV's). One of the competitors included the comment on his AMV of "Lens Flares = More Points!" As it was true that special effects added did have a merit for the purposes of judging. The audience witnessed him place a liberal number of lens flares on a large Mecha shot. The MC for the competition foolishly stated that "at least they aren't lens-flare nipples" 5 minutes later...not hard to see what happened.
* This is not merely an animation or CGI trope. Modern movie cameras are perfectly capable of completely eliminating lens flare, but it's generally left in (or added in post-production) because the audience thinks that films "look fake" without it.
** Apple's iMovie editing software actually has a lens flare effect. Presumably other editing software does as well.
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