Removing lens flare

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Whilst my Nikon 28-70 2.8 is a spectacular lens in many ways, a huge negative is the flaring as per the attached image.
I've searched the net but have struggles to come up with a simplistic way to remove this without taking another shot hiding the sun and then blending.
Anyone have any ideas?

Sunset on the River Ant, Norfolk Broads by neil almond, on Flickr
 
Why remove the lens Flare??? its adding to this shot tbh imho.

Great shot btw. :D
 
I very much doubt any lens could control that amount of direct light at that angle. I agree with Bryn - leave it there
 
if it is that bit in the middle of the image you should be able to clone it out pretty quickly in PS
 
BillN_33 said:
if it is that bit in the middle of the image you should be able to clone it out pretty quickly in PS
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Tried that too - couldn't achieve a desirable result. Thanks for the suggestion though.
 
Graham W said:
I would probably try removing the very bright bit to the right of the rigging with the "Content aware fill" tool in PS. The rest I would leave as it's part of the picture (and an attractive one at that.)
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As per my previous post - tried that - didn't work! Thanks again for your suggestion!
 
less than a minute - if you take 2 or 3 you should get it "perfect" and unnoticeable

if this is the flare that you are talking about … any of the cloning/healing tools will do

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NeilA1975 said:
Nice - how did you do that?
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In CS or Photoshop and probably Elements and maybe there is also a tool in LR …… but lets stick to PS ….. there are 4 or 5 cloning tools ……. patch, healing. spot, stamp etc. …… just use those

Contents aware has a mind of it's own sometimes

If you want to go to town, add a Layer and work on that and even select the area ………. I know that it is easy to say ….. but it is quite simple ….. just a 30 sec job

Have a search on Utube for a video ……. it will only be short

Good luck
 
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