Soft-Focus Lens Examples

[chrism]

Sergei,
If I am very lucky, I might make a photo a tenth as good as any of yours one day! Please keep inspiring us!

Chris

[cowanw]

Your light source was either too far or too small (harsher shadow line) to match shadow line in original. Otherwise its a very cool take , very cool indeed.

Thank you; I expect the original was studio window light, although there was an Isaac Benjamin who did theatrical portraits in Cincinnati at that time and may very well be the same person. So theatrical lighting is possible.
Mine was flash; closer because the hat was dark.

[SergeiR]

Sergei,
If I am very lucky, I might make a photo a tenth as good as any of yours one day! Please keep inspiring us!

Chris

Thank you, thats very kind of you.
Its more of subject in a lot of cases. I just happen to be married to woman who doesn't mind posing for me, or browsing with me through piles of old books and shout "yeah! lets try something like that!" Then all thats left is to decipher light and figure out how to do minuscule bits Like getting lenses right and such. Which is time consuming and stuff. But soft lenses will always hold very special place for their romantic allure.

[Peter De Smidt]

8x10, 360mm Imagon with green filter on and 7.7 center hole disk (not one that is with radial open ones, if i remember right). Some extra downward tilting

Reminds me of a Hurrell photo of Joan Crawford. Terrific!

[gbogatko]

"It's Time"

Kodak 305, f5.6, Efke 100.

[SergeiR]

Reminds me of a Hurrell photo of Joan Crawford. Terrific!

Thank you. That is what it was inspired by

[goamules]

Here are two Verito examples, on 5x7:

[Peter De Smidt]

What aperture, Garrett?

[SergeiR]

Garett - first one is very very pictorial-ish awesome.

[goamules]

Thanks, both were about one stop down. I don't really take notes, but I can tell by the look. Both with a 7 1/4" if I recall.