Not to be confused with flair at all.  LOL  Here is the lovely Christiana, who I photographed in the crisp Michigan fall weather.

Photographic trends are so fickle.  A lot of people are happy with lens flare and horrendous overexposure.  It gets the clicks and like in social media circles.  But here's the rub . . .

How do you approach this when you have spent literally decades trying to keep these things out of your photographs?  Overexposure and flare were the hallmarks of someone who hadn't mastered his or her craft.

Somewhere along the way, we as photographers lost the plot.  Someone got rushed and put some images out there that were not ready for prime time and presto!  What's old is new again.  So now you are trendy and creative if you do these things with your photography.

So what should I do?  Stay true to my craft the way I learned it, or jump on the craptacular bandwagon?

End of rant.  ;-)

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