Hi Randy. The second one is simply out of focus. The softness on the Cooke is not strong, and hard to see on a model with perfect (plastic) skin! Try shooting two images of a wrinkly person--one full sharp and one full soft--both sharply focused, and you will see the softness in the second image. But its subtle. This is a portrait lens, not pictorial, so what it is going to give you is really nice portraits that don't look soft. I guess this is the effect sought after with photoshop (improvement that is not obvious).

Good luck!