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Hot Tub soft focus...
May 16, 2019 08:57:10 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
Hot Tub soft focus ... Originally shot on slide film and, much later, scanned into my computer. The lighting did have a blue tint to it so the coloring is intentional.
May 16, 2019 11:43:14 #
Harry, you have shown us several "soft focus" shots lately. I assume this was intentional. Did you use a filter, or simply de-focus the lens? [Or did you just have a crappy camera/lens ;-)]
May 16, 2019 13:35:24 #
Love the poses but not a big fan of the color tint. Just my opinion and I am sure that there are folks out there who love it. So it boils down to what you like and intended.
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May 16, 2019 14:34:57 #
What a breath of fresh air! Soft focus in the days of required razor sharp focus.
What will become of us?
What will become of us?
May 16, 2019 14:59:19 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
JohnFrim wrote:
Harry, you have shown us several "soft focus" shots lately. I assume this was intentional. Did you use a filter, or simply de-focus the lens? [Or did you just have a crappy camera/lens ;-)]
Mamiya C330 w/Mamiya 75 mm lens... experimenting with different color gels soft focus caused by steam off hot tub water
on a cool night.
May 16, 2019 15:11:46 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
Bill P wrote:
What a breath of fresh air! Soft focus in the days of required razor sharp focus.
What will become of us?
What will become of us?
Ya, I don't think my work is all that popular just because of the softness of my images. I've always liked more romantic and less explicit images.
May 16, 2019 16:16:24 #
RogStrix
Loc: UK
A nice series of images DH. Have you tried any black and white conversions or some other colour filters apart from blue?
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May 16, 2019 16:30:23 #
May 16, 2019 16:52:10 #
RogStrix
Loc: UK
Both very nice. Not sure which I prefer, the black and white is more conventional,the blue more of an atmospheric shot.
May 17, 2019 07:47:45 #
May 17, 2019 09:33:22 #
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May 17, 2019 10:06:05 #
May 18, 2019 20:57:32 #
Sorry but they look way out of focus to me Harry. Soft V out of focus differentiated by grain. The grain is blurred; in soft focus it would be sharp.
May 19, 2019 09:29:46 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
PaulG wrote:
Sorry but they look way out of focus to me Harry. Soft V out of focus differentiated by grain. The grain is blurred; in soft focus it would be sharp.
My recollection .. grain is from the film, not the image. I'm sure these slides we put in my enlarger an attempted to be manipulated with litho film and that would have required the use of a grain focuses. I found that soft focus images did no lend themselves to litho manipulation. I did a lot of "home made filter" experiments.. not easy (or cheap) with a twin lens reflex. Attached are some of the filters I made and some I tried... may be I'll revisit with digital SLR - lower cost and I can see the image on the view screen then store in the computer.
Some of these filters were screen, nylon material, scarf material, various Mylar, acrylic,carbonation engineering test samples I came across in my job. some "blurred" the image some caused a glow around the image,soe softened the image. A the steam from the hot tub caused a softening and a slight glow (like fog).
May 23, 2019 02:09:06 #
LMurray
Loc: North Orange County, CA
JohnFrim wrote:
Harry, you have shown us several "soft focus" shots lately. I assume this was intentional. Did you use a filter, or simply de-focus the lens? [Or did you just have a crappy camera/lens ;-)]
Reminds me of photos in Playboy back in 60's w/soft focus and the color. Nice!!!
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