This is from polycount, where lens flare is shunned upon. This is how they troll:
orig, topic name “The most excellent concept gun” (Serious title, was for his school project)
comments:
“but seriously some subtle photographic effects like Chromatic abberation and depth of field could really help this.”
“Fletch, i like your paint over but i still think he needs to push the details further, some more lens flares might be able to achieve this:”
“This forum is awesome .”
“Dragon fire that bright would create more lens flare, please fix this”
“Needs more glow for it to be scifi”
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85845 for all the smartass remarks to eachother