non-circular lens flare

Lens flare in any non-circular shapes such as pentagon, hexagon, straight lines or small sratches on the image.

Not to be confused with diffraction spikes and bokeh

Examples

circular (on her bangs) and non-circular (hexagonal) lens flare VS sparkles (around the flowers)

circular and non-circular (pentagonal) lens flare VS sparkles

non-circular (rainbow scratches) VS sparkles (white four-pointed star)

anamorphic lens flare (horizontal lines across the top of the image)