Purple and orange spots... Help me I'm new :'(

[Luniana]

Hi everyone,

A month ago I bought myself a Nikon D5200 DSLR and I finally ended up using it last weekend. However looking through my photos some of them have rather obviously coloured spots in the photos. If someone could explain to me what caused them/how to avoid them in the future? I'm terrified to think something is wrong with my camera already (I'm more than happy to accept that these spots are a result of having no idea how to work my camera.... yet). These photos were all taken with the Nikkor lens 18-55mm 3.5-5.6G. I have a second lens that I havent tried yet (nikkor 55-300mm 4.5-5.6G ED)

I figure this one is just a regular old sunflare spot
A pretty little (unwanted) purple spot in this photo...
In this one there is the purple spot again... and blue spot.
Pretty sure this one is obvious enough

Any help would be really appreciated,
Luni

 

[Forkie]

These are lens flares. You need to position the sun somewhere where it isn't shining directly into your lens. Either turn away from the sun or wait until it's somewhere else to take these shots.

 

[astroNikon]

Did you also buy a filter for the lenses?
If so, remove it. As cheap filters can easily do this.

 

[Braineack]

remove the cheap filter on your lens.

 

[Luniana]

Did you also buy a filter for the lenses?
If so, remove it. As cheap filters can easily do this.

I haven't bought any filters for the lens and it didn't come with one on it either.