Soft focus lens
A lens, uncorrected for spherical aberrations, used to produce a soft focus effect.
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Digital Soft Focus
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It is also possible to produce a digital soft focus effect during the editing of the image.
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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 Focus Filter - Available in degrees of softness generally 1-4 with 4 being very soft and 1 being faintly soft, this filter will soften images.
Soft Focus Produced by use of a special lens that creates soft outlines.
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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 - 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 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 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 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 Focus Filter
A type of filter that can be attached to the lens. It softens the contours of the subject to obtain a softer, hazy picture.
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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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Soft focus:
The definition of a diffused image. This can be achieved at the camera or enlarging stage.
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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.
Creating soft focus used to involved lens filters and Vaseline. But with the arrival and advancement of photo editing software, it's an effect that can be applied with ease, no fuss, and no mess.
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There are soft focus or diffusion filters which can create a dreamy look much favored by certain photographers.
There are color cast filters which create an overall color cast.
There are color correction filters to correct white balance.
SOFT FOCUS-An unsharp photographic image or a special lens or exposing technique by means of which it is produced. (PIA) SPECIFIC GRAVITY (LIQUID AND SOLID)-The ratio of the weight of a substance to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water.
Lighting outdoors is as nice as lighting indoors, if you try for the same combination of lighting effect on the subject(the ratio business and the big light source business meaning naturally soft without soft focus lenses courtesy old "Sol".
Wildlife and sports photographers or even fashion photographers invest in fast aperture telephotos simply because the need the extra speed to freeze action or make a blurred soft focus background for fashion photography.
The 81-series warm-up and Soft focus filters can be used to create romantic portraits or landscapes. Their effects however can be quite easily created in your digital darkroom which eliminates the need to buy expensive filters.
(The last is a "soft focus" lens, but is quite sharp in its normal mode.) I also have the 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens. If I get the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS, I'll get rid of the 135mm.
With film cameras filters have traditionally been used to modify both the spectral content (color) and intensity of light, as well as generating special effects like soft focus.
I'm going to leave specialist types like soft focus out - they're more the trade of playboy photographers (unless of course you consider your fishing or hunting mate could benefit from a smoothing of wrinkles and blemishes?).
Glass or plastic item that goes in front of the camera or enlarger lens to either absorb and remove selected wavelengths of light or add special effects such as soft focus, starbursts or multiple images.
Here you can apply soft focus vignettes, turn parts of the image black and white, remove red-eye and add a 'cross filter' or fisheye effect. The tools are actually pretty good - if you like that kind of thing.
Romantic soft focus! Delightful sparkly cross filters! Moody colour filters! Trippy multi-images, man! Wow! Well, these effects and more can be yours, simply by buying little squares and rectangles of plastic from France! ...
It was often used with soft focus to give the glamorous Hollywood style of the day. Using lots of lights is time consuming and expensive and the minimum shadow style is easily achieved with larger light modifiers and good reflectors.
A popular type are the concentric ring softeners or Dutto filters; they look like water after you drop a stone into it. Examples of this type are the B+W Soft Focus 1 and 2 and the Marumi Diffuser.
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Depth of Field: Most foreground frames look best if they are in sharp focus; others work more effectively when they are in soft focus (say, to emphasize a crisp-and-clear background subject).
This is a Calotype from 1846. Note how the 'detail' is quite soft and looks rather like a sketch or painting. This was a hallmark of the Calotype, in that this soft focus appearance resulted from the somewhat transparent paper negative.
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Sharpness always used to be the ultimate goal in my pictures but nowadays I can see that you can sometimes have too much sharpness and soft focus has it's place too.
However, the AF sensor "saw" the bit of green foliage instead of my bear so I got bad front focus. You can see the soft focus on the bear and a close up of the approximate AF area in the 50% magnification screen capture on the right.
soft focus - a flattering technique often used in portrait photography that deliberately adds blur to a lens. The blur hides blemishes and smooths wrinkles.
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Soft focus filters soften the focus to make portraits more flattering and to make hazy, romantic landscapes.
Close-up lenses magnify the subject without affecting aperture settings.
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