Flowers Anyone?

[Ken Lee]

Lily, 2011
Sinar P, 9" Kirshaw Soft Focus Lens
4x5 HP5+, D-23

To really appreciate the effect of this lens (and others like it I presume) it's helpful to see the image a little larger.

Thanks again to Eddie Gunks for lending me the lens.

[mdm]

A soft focus lens always makes a weak photograph weaker. Very few people seem to make them work.

[Steve M Hostetter]

and people in the southern hemosphere must have evolved with scorched brains...

[mdm]

Mush does have a place on the menu, just a small one. And its true what I say, take a low contrast boring picture and a soft focus lens will reduce the contrast and make it more boring. Eyes focus on contrast. No contrast, nothing to look at. Good photographers control contrast. Thats what Stephane is doing, using as SF lens to put the contrast where he wants it and to blur the rest, the brain can fill in the details.

[sanking]

A soft focus lens always makes a weak photograph weaker. Very few people seem to make them work.

My brain must be getting very weak. I thought those soft focus flower images by Ken Lee were sensational. I especially liked the first one.

Sandy

[mdm]

I am sticking to my guns.

[Ken Lee]

A soft focus lens always makes a weak photograph weaker. Very few people seem to make them work.

That makes sense. Could you point us to some soft focus photos which you feel work nicely?

[mdm]

Alina, through Steven's Port-Land 18" @ f/6

Agave and Herbs, Soft Focus

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 19.6cm X 24,7cm, from a Fomapan 200 8x10 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera with a 400mm f11 single meniscus lens.

Tried out my "new" Taylor, Taylor and Hobson RV meniscus type lens.
Full aperture (removed from barrel)

an owl....

joshua tree

12" Darlot Landscape uncorked

[Tom Keenan]

Image was made on 11x14 film with a 59cm. B&L Protar shot wide open. This is a scan of an 8x10 contact print that I made yesterday on Haloid Contact Paper. Expiration date May 1958. Great fun!
Tom Keenan

[Ken Lee]

Originally Posted by Stephane
Alina, through Steven's Port-Land 18" @ f/6


Originally Posted by Maris Rusis
Agave and Herbs, Soft Focus


Originally Posted by gandolfi
Tried out my "new" Taylor, Taylor and Hobson RV meniscus type lens.
Full aperture (removed from barrel)


an owl....