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17 August, 2025

It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!

By mark stein

17 August, 2025

/ Soft focus, /

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Having shot purely digital for well over a decade, I find myself more and more drawn to the analog process and aesthetic of the film medium. This hankering for a more organic an...

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Ibraar Hussain on Looking for Daenerys Targaryen in Astapor – Street Photography in Magical Essaouira with an Olympus E-1
They really didn't bat an eyelid! It helped that I was with my wife and son, as being amongst a…
Ibraar Hussain on It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!
Thanks for the delightful photographs and the essay. I was pondering a 100mm f2.8 AF Soft Focus lens for my…

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