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Create cinematic imagery with optically-captured overlays
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ORIGINAL
LIGHT HITS™
Beautiful, natural sunlight at your fingertips
Classic Light Hits
Elegant flares with nuanced detail
Classic Light Hits
Classic Light Hits
Elegant and Understated
Classic Light Hits offers a softer, more minimal take on lens flares. While you’ll find some of the spikey bursts generally associated with flares, there’s a nice balance of understated filters that easily blend with the existing light source of your image.
But don’t assume they lack detail. Each Light Hit has its own subtle nuances resulting from the way the light interacts with the lens. Depending on how you position and rotate the effects, more or less of these nuances will be visible in the frame.
You have a lot of control to dial in the look, and the feel, of the light in your shot.
Made from actual sunlight
Each Light Hit was made by capturing actual sunlight in-camera using a variety of unique lenses from Leica, Fuji, Pentax and others, and edited into professional-grade overlays.
This provides natural variances and chromatic detail that can’t be achieved digitally.
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Principle Light Hits
Striking flares with vibrant color
Principle Light Hits
Principle Light Hits
One-of-a-kind
We believe the difference is in the details and we’ve crafted these effects for those who share that fundamental idea. Principle Light Hits features some of the most bold and beautiful lens flares available to photographers.
Made from actual sunlight
Each effect has vibrant color and rich detail, offering legitimacy that can only be achieved by capturing actual sunlight in-camera.
CGI lens flares are often artificially crisp or devoid of substance. Principle Light Hits have a ton of character. If you look closely, you’ll see smooth rays of light accented by intricate, stunning chromatic detail.
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“Light Hits add a greater depth to the image and just lift the photo exponentially.
I have found that I can use the effects very discreetly and other times quite prominently. This is true for all LD effects, not just Light Hits. They can turn a flat image into a bloody cool looking image.”
Tommy Reynolds, PRO PORTRAIT AND TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER
SIGNATURE
GLASS EFFECTS
Elegantly frame your shot with stylized foreground elements
Luminary
Iconic glass overlays with rich reflective elements
Luminary
Luminary
Signature Style
Since the beginning, unique glass effects have been a hallmark of Lens Distortions. Luminary is the definitive example of this signature style.
From delicate to intricate to bold, the glass textures in this pack offer you a unique way to build intrigue in a scene, complement your subject, and accentuate or soften parts of your shot.
Highest Quality
All the glass effects were optically captured in camera, which gives them organic texture, as well as subtle glints and refractions.
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Legacy
Organic glass textures with soft blurs
Legacy
Legacy
Elegant Foreground Elements
Legacy brings the iconic glass shoot-through technique to post-production. Great for softening parts of your shot and subtly guiding your viewer’s eye.
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“They help create more of a mood, whether it be a touch of sun that was added to brighten up the image, or a touch of fog to create mystery and romance. We use the glass effects to add depth of field and dimension to our images.”
Narsete Photography, INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNING WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS
OPTICALLY CAPTURED
NATURAL ELEMENTS
Harness the forces of nature to create dimension
Snow
Immersive snowfall with ethereal movement
Snow
Snow
Transform a moment
There’s something transcendent about standing outside during snowfall. But capturing the full weight of that experience in a single shot can be difficult.
For shots with dramatic potential, these Snow effects give you the ability to add intriguing nuance and create an immersive image.
Superior Quality
These aren’t your run-of-the-mill fairy tale snow effects. Snow can be romantic, and this pack includes some of the classic styles you’d expect, but it goes beyond the whimsical to the cinematic.
With actual snow elements captured in-camera, you get depth, texture, and motion that can be dialed-in to perfection.
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Rain
Natural rainfall with raw intensity
Rain
Rain
Dramatic Visuals
Intensify your scene with natural rainfall. Unlike most other rain effects out there, these are not CGI. Each Rain overlay is optically captured in-camera and back-lit by actual sunlight. This gives gives the effects natural variances and authenticity.
Create Depth
Add a rain overlay to the foreground to create a more visceral feel. You can also layer the rain behind and in front of your subject to place them in an almost three-dimensional environment.
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Fog II
Genuine layers of haze and atmospheric depth
Fog II
Fog II
Natural Variations
The all new Fog pack gives you a variety of unique hazy textures to take control of the atmosphere in your shot.
Each overlay has natural edges on all sides to make the effects usable in any position.
Create Depth
Layer Fog into the background to simplify the canvas and draw attention to your subject. You can also add subtle atmospheric textures to the foreground.
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Shimmer
Explosive light fragments and particles in motion
Shimmer
Shimmer
Create Dimension
Shimmer is great for accentuating movement and giving your image an energetic feeling.
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Eclipse
Blazing ring effects for bold statements
Eclipse
Eclipse
Make a statement
These blazing ring effects are created by capturing the interplay between metallic tubing and natural light. The tubes reflect the light into the lens creating circular glows and interesting textures.
Each effect is shot in-camera in high-resolution, providing intricate texture and chromatic detail. They also pair perfectly with our Light Hits effects.
Unique Aesthetic
There’s no question, Eclipse effects are anything but subtle and they’re not appropriate for every project. But, in the right shot, they can be just the thing to make a moment into a grand statement.
The flexibility of adding them in post allows for greater experimentation with this distinct look.