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I forgot to put my hood on while shooting at night, now i've got this flare, is there anyway to photoshop this out of the photo?

It'll take a little cloning, but completely do-able in photoshop.

Nice shot otherwise

Try a healing brush before the clone, should work out fine in photoshop if you retain the full res picture... zoom in large and use large soft brushes to paint out things carefully. the cloud doesnt look too clustered, so its do-able...

good luck btw, Is that a lens flare from no hood or is it the filter? I had same problem before on the harbour night shots, now I rarely use a filter for long exposures at night. A filter (no matter if multicoated) gives a cance to flare under this tricky night lights.

it may have been both

the lens was a 16-35L, filter was hoya hmc pro 1 and hood was forgotten to be put on

i did need to use a filter though, it was sprinkling a bit that night