![]() ![]() For structure, the 8 other concepts for softer, silkier shots are arranged into two groups: four created in-camera, and four done in post with software. Here, we’ll see nature images and a few portraits that leave slow shutter blurs and shallow depth of field behind. To make successful images combining blur and focus, the main question is ‘what parts of my photograph am I going to softly focus and why?’ Their gaze will return to the high contrast, sharpest areas. Also, when just part of your photo is indistinct, and its sharpest areas have higher contrast, there is a sense of speed conveyed to viewers. Motion and blur tend to make images more abstract. Today there are aesthetic reasons to compose with soft focus photography. Soft focus was often viewed in the past as a lens flaw, due to blurry images from spherical aberration of lenses. ![]() Without them, de-focused areas will not add much interest to a flat photograph. While we can alter spatial areas with blur and motion in camera and after the shot, light presence and moment must already exist in the frame. At times, however, a softer touch is needed.Īn art photograph is born when moment, light and space meet. Yes, it may seem strange, if sharpness is always the most important quality to you. Would it seem strange, then, to deliberately create blur with our precision optics and smart software, when we’re following the dominant paradigm to make our pictures razor sharp? We’ve learned to avoid out-of-focus pictures, so it is easy to get obsessed with lock-down, rigid pixel peeping. ![]() Jim Austin explores the dramatic art of Soft focus photography with intentional blur in his Photo Coach series with Apogee Photo Magazine.Īn essential question is: “ What parts of my photo am I going to softly focus, and why?” ![]()
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