Soft-Focus Lenses and Techniques
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Soft-Focus
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Soft-focus or diffusion filters give a misty quality to images and can impart a romantic mood to scenes and flower close-ups.
This was a 1940s soft-focus lens with a twist. Spherical aberration was deliberately left uncorrected at the sides. The softening is most obvious at full aperture. The lens becomes sharp as you stop it down.
In the mid-1920s, Adams experimented with soft-focus, etching, bromoil, and other techniques of the pictorial photographers, ...
The plastic lens creates a soft-focus image that appeals to many photographs, especially those fed-up with the constant race to improve image quality.
The approach to achieveing a Soft-Focus effect is similar to the background blur effect above. Create a duplicate layer and blur it with Gaussian Blur. Mix it in with "Lighten" mode and an opacity around 50%.
The Cokin A830 is a diffusion filter you can use to create a soft-focus effect in your images. This effect is reminiscent of an era long gone, back in the early to mid twentieth century.
Now you have a beautiful, if dark, soft-focus image. So it's time to lighten it up. First, make a Curves Adjustment Layer. You can do so quickly by clicking the black-and-white circle at the bottom of the Layers palette, and choosing Curves.
Soft Focus Filter Provides a soft-focus effect by diffusing light. Imparts a slight flare to the image. Ideal for portrait photography. Soft Focus An effect resulting from diffusing light around a sharply focused image.
Soft-focus, Portrait, Scene, Landscape, and Wide-angle are some of the focusing effect capabilities that your digital cameral may have. These are nice features to have fun with.
Best for frequent and constant use filters: Polarizer, Warming, Color Enhancer and Soft-focus
Best for color correction filters, multiple combinations and precise positioning of split or graduated Neutral Density ones ...
lines of rugged cameras, the Olympus Stylus Tough TG-810 is built like a tank but benefits from some unique Olympus under-the-hood fun stuff—especially its Magic Filters, which let you emulate Pop Art, Pinhole, fisheye, soft-focus, drawing, ...
More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple images, soft-focus effects, unusual vantage points, zooming, ...
Lily is large and up front, framed by these elements and clearly outlined by sharp focus against the soft-focus background.Not only does this photograph follow all of our autumn photo tips, but it adheres to rules of good composition as well.
Special types of filters include skylight - which blocks Ultra-Violet (and so improves colour rendering), and polarising - which lets through only light vibrating in a particular plane and can be used to block glare. Effects - such as soft-focus and ...
Just stretch the stocking over the inner frame, snap the outer frame over it, clip off any excess, and you're ready to shoot. Also, unlike a soft-focus lens, which has a sharp area exactly in the center, ...
Two options: use larger negs, such as MF or LF, or, if you are willing to get a more 'soft-focused' image, diffuse the light coming out of the enlarger when printing.
 See also: Focus, Photograph, Soft, Camera, Light
  
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