soft focus

soft focus

English

Noun

soft focus (uncountable)

  1. (photography) The blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.
    • 2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.
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