Originally Posted by
SergeiR
I kind of disagree here. I could see male image shot with with soft focus for a few reasons in general - romanticized image (like you know.. knight in shiny armour or bridal stuff or something like that) or to soften perception in general (ok, may be a bit less pronounced softness) when shooting someone like grandfather and you trying to add this nice warmth-ish glow to image... But other than this, agreed, normally males arent good subjects for SF lenses.. We like to be rough and strong.. ;)
But it works as experiment, and not a bad one IMHO, overwise if we take away freedom to display experimental images - quite many photos in displayed threads would be subject to quite harsh critique ;)