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Very beautiful lighting and photograph.

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Two more test images. The round one I achieved the look by using a matte box and the other one I used just the rear element and a home made lens hood made from black poster board. Now I...

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I went out and tested three ideas to see what one got me the closest to the visual effect I'm trying to achieve and out of the six photos I took this image of Smith Garden is the best one....

So if I use my Caltar II-E 210mm lens and remove the front element do you think I would get the sweet spot slow fade out little distortion look?

Okay. Thank you. I think I'm going to play around and see what happens.

So kind of the effect someone would get with a soft focus lens?

I was wondering if any one knew what the effect would be if I only used the rear element of this lens to shoot with? I've been looking for about 2 hours for an answer and I can't find one. I took off...

I think I found a lot of good information related to all the questions I have here http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?98989-Convert-normal-lenses-to-soft-focus/page1
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I was wondering about that but my fear is that the mask since it's so close to the film would make the edge too sharp.

That's the effect I'm going for but what I'm trying to do is have the edge be more blurry than fade to black.

You know when I get the money I just might do that. They look very interesting.

That is exactly what I'm wanting to do! Only with softer edges. Okay so how do I make scene of the chart? I'm very new to LF. I'm use to 135mm and 120mm.

I can't wait to see.

Yeah, I had a hard time finding examples to visually show what I was meaning, but imagine the white being black.

O now that's interesting. Now how in the world do I find a create a frame? Google didn't help and the bay didn't have any posted.

I really didn't mean it as a trolling question. I honestly was wondering what the difference is visually? What is the benefits of the lens vs a filter? Okay I'll try to word it another way. I once...

Just wondering, but what's the difference between using a UV filter with vaseline on it vs a soft focus lens?

Here's an example of a photo I took with my 4x5 camera with a vaseline coated UV...

I think this is what I'm looking for when it come to effect. Combine one of these with a mask and I think I found what I'm looking for....

Great idea!

That's right it would act as an f/stop. What I was thinking about was how some people put their filters behind the lens. I should have thought of that. So my question is now if the mask is close to...

So if I'm understanding what you are saying correctly, if I put the vignette causing material behind the lens it would soften the edge of the image. But if I put it in front, the distance of the...

So that's one of the draw backs. If I get a smaller lens, I wouldn't have much camera movements to work with. Okay I'm forgetting what I've been taught in school. Why is it that a smaller lens make...

When I first started researching photography years ago I came across a few images that were a round image on the negative vs square . Over the years I've learned they were taken with 8x10 cameras. So...