A little lens flare for a cool January day: Pentacon 50/1.8

Just a quick post here, I decided to see how that pentacon 50/1.8 did when it was sunny out this winter, not so good I fear, it is tremendously flare prone and even by using lightroom to within an inch of its life, this image still isnt as good as I would like it to be, but I put that down to my lack of l33t post-processing skillz than any deficiencies with Adobes excellent lightroom 3

  This is the tree outside my house taken at f2 ( f1.8 has no shape to the out of focus highlights) and you can see the hexagonal flares in the ice drops quite readily