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New Pictorialism [Soft Focus Alert!]
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I love soft-focus pictures ...
Inspired by this topic, I found a KENKO 45/4.5 SF on the Evil-Bay, I found the price reasonable, and bought it.
Should be here just before, or just after Christmas.

I'll show you some pictures asap !

CU,
Rafael


PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

f6cvalkyrie wrote:
I love soft-focus pictures ...
Inspired by this topic, I found a KENKO 45/4.5 SF on the Evil-Bay, I found the price reasonable, and bought it.
Should be here just before, or just after Christmas.

I'll show you some pictures asap !

Hi Rafael,

Nice to see you here. I am a great fan of your pictures on GetDPI. Congrats on the Kenko, that's a lens that I would be glad to put my hands on - unfortunately, eBay is blocked here in Myanmar due to the US economic sanctions so I will have to wait before I can get one.

Waiting for your pictures with this lens,

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The lens (Kenko 45/4.5 Soft) arrived this morning, and I had a brandnew Christmas Rose and a Christmas tree to shoot Smile)







I'm quite happy with these very first results ...

C U
Rafael


PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 4:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great pictures, Rafael!

For all the soft focus lenses lovers at MFLenses, here's my Christmas present. This is a link to a very erudite university thesis titled The soft-focus lens and Anglo-American pictorialism, written in 2008 by William Russell Young of the University of St Andrews (UK):

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/505

Happy reading and season's greetings to all!

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Abbazz.
366 pages - that should keep me busy over the weekend.
Very Happy OH


PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oldhand wrote:
Thank you Abbazz.
366 pages - that should keep me busy over the weekend.
Very Happy OH

You're very welcome!
This is indeed a great read but unfortunately, there are some pictures not included in the PDF.

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Abbazz, very usefull.

Abazz wrote:
This is indeed a great read but unfortunately, there are some pictures not included in the PDF.

And thanks for that remark too - I was puzzling what stupid thing I did, why I didn't get everything Very Happy


PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, that was mentioned in the Abstract:
Description: Electronic version excludes illustrations for which permission has not been granted by the rights holder
Still, I am looking forward to studying this.
Gratias
OH


PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A portrait with the "new" Kenko 45/4.5 on the E-M1, and "some" processing ...

"SWMBO"


C U,
Rafael


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonderful Raf!!


PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice thread with excellent examples.
DIY 90/2.2 at f/4 (described here):



PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

White Rose



With E-M1 and Kenko 45/4.5 Soft

C U,
Rafael


PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice one Rafael.

(may I please remind you that the size limit here is 1024 pix max.) We have a special gallery for larger size images here


PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for reminding, Klaus ! I completely forgot about that one ...

So, I started a new topic here, I hope this was the appropriate place :

http://forum.mflenses.com/kenko-45-4-5-soft-in-the-garden-t69556.html

C U there,
Rafael


PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do these count?
I shot those on a foggy day with a Helios 44-2, and heavily processed them in LR.





PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am interested to experience more in this area of pictorial photography. I would be more interested in landscapes than portraits. What lenses do you recommend for this purpose (K bayonet, M42 mount (preferably preset), or T2 mount )?


PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are few from a Voigtländer Skopar 1:4.5 7.5 cm (from Voigtländer Brillant) on Olympus E-P2
Not a soft focus lens but gives very nice effect when shot wide open Smile

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