Soft Edged or Hard Edged?
As long as we're on the subject of graduated neutral density filters, another question that comes up often is whether to use soft-edged or hard-edged grads.
Soft focus lens
A lens, uncorrected for spherical aberrations, used to produce a soft focus effect.
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Digital Soft Focus
Figure 3: Original Image
It is also possible to produce a digital soft focus effect during the editing of the image.
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Soft Light
If the image comes out too dark you can select the original (lower) layer and adjust the lighting until the desired effect is achieved.
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Soft light is created when the light source is large relative to the subject.
Soft Light
In my opinion, small subjects look best in soft light. Harsh shadows and bright highlights interfere with their subtle colors, shapes and contours.
Soft-focus or diffusion filters give a misty quality to images and can impart a romantic mood to scenes and flower close-ups.
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RE: Your diffusion filter article (How-To: Effects, March 2006). An easier way to hold the stocking in front of the lens is with an embroidery hoop.
Soft box
A 'framed' diffuser that fits over the Light and creates a more natural soft light.
(see Diffuser)
Soft Lighting
Lighting that is low in contrast, such as on an overcast day.
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Soft Focus Produced by use of a special lens that creates soft outlines.
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Soft Focus
You can always do a Soft Focus effect in Photoshop, but if you want to retain the CCD noise (digital grain) as part of the image, using a Soft Focus filter will let you do that.
Soft Lighting - low contrast lighting
Underexposure - when not enough light reaches the sensor making the picture too dark
Vignetting - underexposure at the edges of a picture ...
Soft Proof - This option enables you to preview on screen what the actual printed photograph will look like, and what the colors are going to be like.
SOFT FOCUS - A soft look achieved by bending some of the light from the subject so it is defocused while the rest remains in focus. Highlights are actually dispersed onto adjacent areas.
Soft Sun/White: These colours subtly warm up skin tone and are used in wedding and portrait work because the soft sun does not add false colour.
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
Produced by use of a special lens that creates soft outlines. Filters are more popular than lens as it is more economical and flexible.
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Soft. Describes an image that is blurred or out of focus. The opposite of sharp.
soft images with the Nikon D50 slr
After much experimenting with my newly acquired Nikon D50 slr, I am absolutely non-plussed as to why I cannot get results as clear, let alone better, than my coolpix camera.
Soft Focus
Filter used often by glamour photographers and occasionally by other photographers to cause a slight blurring of the highlights into the shadows which produces a photograph with softened edges.
soft hand additive
an extender base added to plastisol ink to produce better flow characteristics and a softer feel to the cured print.
soft proof
viewing a digital image with a monitor instead of generating a hard copy proof.
Soft focus. A diffused, unsharp image effect produced by the use of a special lens that creates soft outlines.
Soft lighting. Lighting that is low or moderate in contrast, such as on an overcast day.
Soft Light
Diffused, Bounced, indirect light; the opposite of Hard Light. The soft shadows and subtle highlights produced are so luscious one wonders why this light isn't used for everything. At times it seems to be.
Soft Case
Supplied is this protective soft case which has a velcro closing flap and comes with a shoulder strap. This protects the Digital Album from occasional knocks while being carried.
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Soft Light
Quite frequently, cloudy-bright light offers the best shooting conditions for photographing mammals. Soft light diffused by a light veil of clouds makes ideal portrait lighting and permits you to shoot all day when necessary.
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Use a soft focus filter (Softar). This has 3 strengths for different effects. The advantage to this is no exposure compensation.
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7) Use soft lighting. When you are photographing women use a softer type of lighting. Soft lighting from the back will help to illuminate the hair and provide a gentler overall image.
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Soft, romantic candle light portrait photography can turn 'Ho-Hum' subjects into luscious sirens of desire.
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Soft outside lighting increases the color saturation of flower pictures.
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Soft-Proof: The process of using the computer monitor to accurately simulate what the image will look like when printed. Proofing on screen rather than with a hard-copy contract proof.
Soft light, hard light, hair light, background. Everything is under your control. If you are a tremendously creative person who knows how to use studio equipment, you'll get wonderful results.
Soft images are the result of poor focusing and camera shake. Follow our four simple steps for pin-sharp perfection
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Soft focus:
The definition of a diffused image. This can be achieved at the camera or enlarging stage.
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Soft coral capital of the world, and home to a great shark dive.
Diving Palau
Sharks, some big fish and good topside excursions make Palau a popular destination.
Soft filters. These filters can have circular depressions (eg: Zeiss Softar) or embedded netting (basically a glorified way of putting nylon stocking over the end of your lens, ...
Soft focus lenses introduce spherical aberration deliberately into the optical formula for an ethereal effect considered pleasing, and flattering to subjects with less than perfect complexions.
Soft Focus - Produced using a special lens that creates soft outlines.
Soft Lighting - Lighting that is low or moderate in contrast, such as on an overcast day.
A soft, almost opaque browning effect mostly associated with prints from the early years of photography. Some digicams have a sepia mode, and the effect can be created with many photo-editing software.
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The soft quality (soft meaning that the light is diffused or coming from many directions) can't be achieved by a flash because the light is coming from one small point. Studios use large softboxes or big reflective umbrellas to achieve this look.
The soft corals and massive gorgonians of the Fiji coral reef adds wonderful color accents to the wide-angle view.
Light, Soft
Lighting that is low or moderate in contrast, such as on an overcast day.
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Light from regular room lamps and ceiling fixtures, not fluorescent.
Result: Soft, even, but not enough light coming from the ceiling as in the previous shot.
(8) Flash on hot shoe
Flash head: straight forward with diffuser
Flash settings: TTL + Matrix
Flash compensation: none
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By using soft north light, Paul is avoiding any harsh directional lighting that could cause hard shadows. The low contrast of the scene delivers a dreamy feeling.
CRTs are soft, fuzzy and dim, which makes it difficult to work on photographic images and have a clue of what your images really look like. LCDs, on the other hand, have a degree of sharpness that's a great improvement, yet still lack in resolution.
Once the soft box was positioned where we wanted it, we disabled the built-in flash, synced the strobe and camera via a wireless transmitter and receiver and took a shot (figure 4).
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Mauve
Soft, subdued, quiet, sentimental
Burgundy
Rich, elegant, refined, tasty, expensive, mature ...
Why is it soft? The photographer had no choice once he loaded his film. He used ISO 50 slide film, which forced him to shoot at 1/30 of a second. At this slow shutter speed the charging rhino is slightly blurred.
Tiffen Warm Soft/FX (Special Effects) Filter
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No hard, not soft, just firm (sorry). The name given to a usually-very-small bit of software stored in a device's Read Only Memory (ROM. Just about all digital devices have this "instruction set".
The modes are: Velvia/Vivid (for dramatic full saturation colour), PROVIA/Standard (for classic ‘neutral' photography), ASTIA/Soft (for gentle, low contrast portraiture and soft, fine, smooth tonality), Sepia (for antique, ...
Kodak Selectol- Soft is another hydroquinone- free developer that can be used for print solarizations; the stock solution has about the right concentration for use as a working solution in solarization.
I like this, nice soft lighting and very sharp detail.
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What you need is a soft but fairly rigid support, about 15mm wide by a few inches long and 1-2mm thick.. This could be a Popsicle stick, a modified plastic knife, a modified kitchen spatula (I've seen all three suggested).
Hard Dot: see "soft" dot.
Hierarchial: A form of document or file structure, also known as a tree structure, where all elements except the root have parents, and all elements may or may not have children.
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