Removing flare

[Bee_Jay]

Anyone got any idea how to remove the flare from the right hand side of this pic. A friend has given it to me in the hope that I can fix it but after some playing in Lightroom and Photoshop I am not getting very far.

Anyone got any clues - she has given me a couple like this.

[Simpo Two]

Is that flare or has somebody been over-keen with shadow recovery?

I'd select the area in PS using the polygonal marquee tool feathered to about 100px (depends on size of image) then Ctrl/L for levels and hoof the black level up until it matched the rest of the image. But I'm sure there are other ways too.

[Bee_Jay]

Apparently that is how it came out of the camera (which has some rather agressive JPG processing it appears)

[LongQ]

Looks more like something on the lens - there a large dark spot over on the right too.

[itsnotarace]

Yes looks like water droplet or fingerprint on lens