Thanks, Garrett. They're good examples.
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Thanks, Garrett. They're good examples.
Love this.Quote:
Originally Posted by cowanw
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Past Imperfect #4
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.4cm, from a 4x5 Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a 150mm f4 Wollaston Meniscus soft-focus lens and a #25 red filter.
My photographer friend Sparky died after a long long illness and some of his equipment passed into my hands. There were many film holders that he had loaded with Tri-X fifteen years previously but could not expose. The film had corroded through the passage of years but I took it to those places we had walked with our cameras in times long gone. This Past Imperfect exposure is of a style he'd appreciate.
I will apologize in advance for this question, but what is the difference between a soft-focus image "in focus" and a slightly out-of-focus image taken with a "normal" lens? Soft-focus seems to accentuate some flare in the highlights, but is there more?
It's a blend of in-focus and out of focus. Lets say your image looked good sharp and had pleasing out of focus look at 1/2" more focus. If, rather than make a 1s exposure, you made 100 1/100 sec exposures, each time incrementing the focus 1/500 of an inch, you'd have an approximation of the blend made by a soft focus lens... Center rays focus one spot, axial rays focus another distance, all in the same exposure. Stopping down reduces the amount of axial rays coming in meaning comparatively more sharpness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Lewin
Also if something is simply out of focus then quite likely something in the photograph is in focus, perhaps the shirt pocket in front, and just looks off.
With purpose built "soft focus" there is a sharp sparkle in the centre of the glow. Maris's example is a great example of the sense of both glow and focus.
In fairness, however, the type of soft focus that is a result of screwing out the front lens, like a Velostigmat, can be largely refocused.
- glow of highlights is most pronounced thing you can noticeQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter Lewin
- there are two different "softing" ways - defocusing and working with aberrations (as above).
main thing about soft focus and just missing focus is that there is focal plane slice still there, once you miss focus. Most of soft focus lenses are not easy to focus ;)
There used to be whole huge disputes back in pictorial photography days , i remember articles in Camera Works about "mush" and such :)
But then i am not most technical person. I just enjoy taking pictures ;)
Prinz Albert Wilhelm Heinrich von Preußen or Prince Henry was the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. He was a naval officer who loved yachting and automobiles.
One of the unresolved problems of the economic dispute between Germany and Greece regarding the present economic difficulties of the European common market is the claim by Greece for 18 billion Euros in penalties and royalties from Germany for copying the Greek fisherman`s hat which dates from 1886.
Germany`s position is that the style of hat known throughout Europe as the Prinz Heinrich Hat was invented by the Kaiser`s brother from the Imperial Yacht Club hat. And,in any case, if there is liability, the Treaty of Versailles addressed all outstanding financial difficulties of Wilhelmine Germany and, if that is not accepted by the courts, the principle was certainly addressed in the Locarno treaties and the Young Plan and the 1960 final payment.
Here Prince Henry is shown about to get into his Prinz Heinrich Benz, on his way to the Kiel Yacht club
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Velostigmat II Variable focus on crisp setting at f 4.5
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Velostigmat II Variable focus on soft setting at f 4.5 refocussed