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seaLere wrote in post #18149817
It's still there even when it's severely underexposed.

Have you checked to see if it happens with other lenses?

I once had a film on the back elemeny of a lens that did something similar to this, residue from cleaning...have you checked the rear element for cleanliness?

This house was built over ten years ago. It was interesting watching the chimney get built. I can't imagine the cost. It was starting to rain when the image was shot, rain drop on lens caused the slight flare camera right of the front turret.

seaLere wrote in post #18149077
So since I got this 17-40 f4 (had the 17-35 2.8), I've noticed that a lot of lights are doing this weird streaking thing. This never happened with my old lens. Any ideas what's going on here? Any easy way to remove this?

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17-40L is an older lens hence it may not have the kind of coating on newer lenses that minimizes flares and such.

You could clone out using nearby samples. Or a little more pita process: I would try creating a layer consisting only of problem areas, play with levels on that layer (you want flare parts to lose their highlights without overdarkening - lowering the contrast is the goal here), then place that layer set to multiply blend mode atop the base layer. Mask out areas that come out too dark. If one layer is not enough, create a duplicate and play with level opacity(ies) as well. Again, it's a pita process but when done right, it's worth the effort.

A typical house in Kitzbühel, Austria... we are in the Alps, 762m above the sea... The average car you see in the streets has been made by Audi.
The woman on the picture left the house while I was ready to take pictures, she is a teacher helping a child...

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=9ZtrIdIAf7U

StudioAbe wrote in post #18150682
17-40L is an older lens hence it may not have the kind of coating on newer lenses that minimizes flares and such.

You could clone out using nearby samples. Or a little more pita process: I would try creating a layer consisting only of problem areas, play with levels on that layer (you want flare parts to lose their highlights without overdarkening - lowering the contrast is the goal here), then place that layer set to multiply blend mode atop the base layer. Mask out areas that come out too dark. If one layer is not enough, create a duplicate and play with level opacity(ies) as well. Again, it's a pita process but when done right, it's worth the effort.

My 17-35 was over 15 years old and did not have this problem.

windpig wrote in post #18150282
This house was built over ten years ago. It was interesting watching the chimney get built. I can't imagine the cost. It was starting to rain when the image was shot, rain drop on lens caused the slight flare camera right of the front turret.

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I like the house but the chimney.... way too big.

Scrumhalf wrote in post #18149156
#2 or 3? Interesting to hear that from a French(wo)man. I would have ranked your country as #2! Regardless, nice shot!

Maybe I'm wrong, but Austria is in the top five for sure.

There is a difference between Italy and France.
In Italy food is a religion so you can pick any restaurant with 0 star, you get good food. Not in France because the food could be good or not that good... !!! And yes, I'm French...
We do not rank restaurants like in USA or Canada, 1 star means VERY good food, then there are 2 stars and 3 stars restaurants where you could pay 200€/person without wine in France and Italy...

Alenya wrote in post #18150702
A typical house in Kitzbühel, Austria... we are in the Alps, 762m above the sea... The average car you see in the streets was made by Audi.
The woman on the picture left the house while I was ready to take pictures, she is a teacher helping a child...

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=9ZtrIdIAf7U

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That house is gorgeous. Would love to photograph something like that with a mountain background

joooowan wrote in post #18151577
That house is gorgeous. Would love to photograph something like that with a mountain background

Buying a piece of land here is very expensive, around 45€/sq foot or 495€/sq meter.
Then the house is huge and probably very expensive. You need to make money to live there...
I don't know the lowest wage per month in Austria... in Switzerland on the other side of the border it's 3000€/month except in Geneva where the lowest wage is 4000€...

A house I recently built for a client in South Carolina. New to photography so....

Good start. Nice straight vertical lines and good framing. Color looks off to me. Is the roof really purple? It looks like both the magenta and the blue are off. Try some more green and a touch of yellow. Or, if you are using LR, click your color sampler on the roof and see what you get. Or one of those white(?) dormers. There is a purple blob along the right edge - crop it. I would also crop a bit from the bottom edge so the yard doesn't overpower the house. And, next time, if you have access to a ladder, make this kind of shot from an elevation. Hope this helps.

^Composition and lines are nice. I would maybe stretch the right side of the house out a bit to be parallel with the frame. Wayy too oversaturated though and as rgs said above, the colors don't quite make sense.

Our vet clinic went thru a massive restoration within the past year and they asked me to photograph the "new" building for an architectural design contest. I rented the 16-35 f4L IS from borrowlenses.com and got to work on this. This is my first of this type of thing, but I really enjoyed it and studied more for this assignment than probably any other I have done. I've read almost every single page of this thread, so I appreciate hearing what you guys had to say and learning. This is three bracketed exposures at 1 stop increments and then combined in LR HDR merge. Some dodging and burning and cloned a few things and that's pretty much it. Sky is original from Friday night. I'm looking forward to getting the rest of these edited.

Photo from BallerStatus's gallery.

^^ I like the shot and I love these later twilight shots but I would have shot it a tad bit later (If you were able too) so the window light was a little brighter. I would also like to see a shot from the other side of the building. It looks like the left side of the building sticks out but you can't tell that dimension of the building from that angle so I would have shot into that. The image is crisp and clean so you did a great job with that and not overediting. Next time try playing with bracketed exposures and brushes in PS instead of letting HDR do the work. I feel like you could have added a lot more texture and dimension to the building.

With that said, it's still a killer shot and I'm sure they were very pleased with it!