The house that we stayed in last week in Phoenix had a beautiful walled-in backyard. I walked around one morning and took some pictures of plants and messed around with how to get consistent sunbursts with my Fuji. My 18-55 kit lens has sunbursts like shown below when around F16. Kinda funky how each burst gets wide towards the end, but it's better than some other lenses that I've used!
For those of you that are smarter than me, what's the best way to minimize those reddish sunspots that show up in the photo? A better lens hood? Be a more talented photographer? Let me know :)