Another Soft Focus Lens Blog. The ShitPipe Lens.

[Jim Galli]

The blog is here.

Take 5 minutes and enjoy, or, if you hate fuzzy lenses, best move on.

I had fun making the pictures, and hey, I'm beginning to think that is the most important thing we can accomplish.

I know you're tired of looking at my '39 Ford pickup.......so.......I'll consider accepting donations to purchase some other more interesting subject to focus on. I think a '55 Thunderbird would be nice.

[Scott Davis]

While I applaud your taste in automobiles, I'd disagree with the 55 t'bird as a good subject for your soft lenses. It wants something a little more modern- a 14" Commercial Ektar. Now, a 1901 Curved Dash Olds just BEGS to be shot with all that classic turn-of-the-century soft-focus glass. Or perhaps a 1910 Cadillac or a First Series Packard.

[Jim Galli]

I think you're on to something here. I'd accept any of these! Especially the Packard. Photographing a Packard with a Packard! It needs to be done.

[Mark Sawyer]

This one really has a look all its own, Jim. There's another thread currently going on about wide angles and how they make the world seem to curve away from you at the center of the frame. This one gives a look of everything bubbled in towards you in the center. Somehow it fits with the curves of that old Ford! And a very dreamy, surrealistic quality. Wish it were a bit sharper for the portraits though. Perhaps this on needs a single centered subject for that sort of work?

[Diane Maher]

I really like the effect that you got on the last image, Jim.

[Eric Rose]

It must be the water LOL.

[C Henry]

The images are simply wonderful.

[Jim Galli]

Thanks everyone, except Eric, who has discovered and disclosed that the photographer is barking mad. This I already knew Probably not the water......perhaps lack of out here.

[Erich Hoeber]

Thanks for posting, Jim! Fantastic as always.

[jenn wilson]

i especially like the first couple of images. you could do a levinthal-ish series with that lens. the extreme separation of fore and background makes the truck look like a miniature!