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08-06-2018, 04:08 AM   #76
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Look how many flowers there are. Flowers seem to be a natural partner to soft focus just as they are the natural sharp-focus foil to a well-bokehed background.

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Blossoms from our garden, softly.

Here are a few of our garden flowers with the Pentax-F 85mm soft focus lens.
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08-06-2018, 05:59 PM - 1 Like   #78
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QuoteOriginally posted by WPRESTO Quote
Look how many flowers there are. Flowers seem to be a natural partner to soft focus
Yes. I bought the lens for creative shots of flowers, after I saw images produced by a Japanese photographer shooting with the older K 85 f2.2 Soft. With digital, you don't need soft focus lenses for portraits anymore. More examples from last weekend's shoot:



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Again, F 85/2.8 Soft:



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F 85/2.8 Soft:

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"Rockefeller Garden"
FA 85 Soft at f2.8
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"Columbine"
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QuoteOriginally posted by kcjonez Quote
"Rockefeller Garden"
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I really like this one, reminiscent of a Monet painting.
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I really like this one, reminiscent of a Monet painting.
Thanks ivanvernon! That's how I see this shot also. Most of my wide open soft shots have lacked contrast and "punch". This one works.
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Thanks ivanvernon! That's how I see this shot also. Most of my wide open soft shots have lacked contrast and "punch". This one works.
Most welcome. Hope you continue to experiment and develop your technique with this interesting lens. Maybe I will grab mine and tour the garden.
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FINALLY!!!
(Ok no one know my story, but I had lost track of my 85mm soft for almost a year... I was too much in shame to talk about that in this thread...)
I finally found it in my dauther's room, after she quit the home.
In the last months, I was in the middle of home improvements, etc etc, and was searching for my lens all around the house, in the different "temporary" boxes I made to clear some of the rooms affected... I thought at one point that I had loaned it to my dauther, and when I asked her, she did not remembered seeing it... I was wondering if I had loaned it to someone else, but could not remember myself...
So last w-e, we emptied her room before making another improvement and found it in a drawer inside a big cabinet...

I need to go out and shoot a bit with that glass asap!
Stay tuned ! :-)
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At least you had some excuse for having difficulty locating that lens, because you loaned it to some one who didn't remember having it. Usually my lost lenses show up in the single compartment of a camera bag that I did not put my hand into, or in the lens drawer stacked below some other lens that I thought filled the entire lens sack. But, sometimes when searching for a particular lens, I find another that I forgot I owned.
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Another F 85mm Soft shot:

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