soft-focus

soft-focus
  a cinematographic effect in which a filter, vaseline or gauze-like substance placed over the camera lens reduces the clarity or sharpness of focus, blurs the image, and produces a diffused, hazy light; often used to enhance romantic or dreamy scenes, or to remove wrinkle lines from an actor's face
  Example: often used in the 1930s; also in the love scene at the French plantation in Apocalypse Now Redux (1979 and 2001)

Glossary of cinematic terms . 2015.

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  • soft focus — soft focus, adj. Photog. an image, often created by a special lens, that is recognizable but somewhat blurred or diffused. [1915 20] * * * …   Universalium

  • soft focus — n [U] a way of photographing or filming things so that the edges of the objects in the photograph are not sharp or clear …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • soft focus — noun uncount an effect in a film or photograph in which the image is made less clear in order to give a romantic appearance …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • soft focus — ► NOUN ▪ deliberate slight blurring or lack of definition in a photograph or film …   English terms dictionary

  • Soft focus — This article is about the term used in photography and optics, for the album by the Norwegian band Euroboys, see Soft Focus. In photography, soft focus is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration. A …   Wikipedia

  • soft focus — noun : unsharpness of a photograph due to intentional diffusion of the lens image * * * noun [noncount] : a way of producing a photograph so that the edges of the image are not completely clear or sharp soft focus adj used a soft focus lens soft… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Soft Focus — This article is about the album by the Norwegian band Euroboys, for the term used in photography and optics, see Soft focus. Infobox Album | Name = Soft Focus Type = Album Artist = Euroboys Background = orange Released = 2004 Recorded = Genre =… …   Wikipedia

  • soft focus — N UNCOUNT If something in a photograph or film is in soft focus, it has been made slightly unclear to give it a more romantic effect. In the background, in soft focus, we see his smiling wife …   English dictionary

  • soft-focus — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: soft focus 1. of a photographic image : having unsharp outlines 2. of a lens : producing an image having unsharp outlines …   Useful english dictionary

  • soft focus — soft′ fo′cus n. pht intentional lack of sharpness in a photographic image, often created by a special lens • Etymology: 1915–20 soft′ fo cus, adj …   From formal English to slang

  • soft focus —    Especially in photography, an image made when the lens is thrown slightly out of sharp focus so that the contours of any object appear moderately soft and blurred. Also see sfumato …   Glossary of Art Terms

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