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In photography, soft focus is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration. A soft focus lens deliberately introduces spherical aberration in order to give the appearance of blurring the image while retaining sharp edges; it is not the same as an out-of- focus image, and the effect cannot be achieved simply by defocusing a sharp lens. Soft focus is also the name of the style of photograph produced by such a lens.
Soft Focus is the fifth album released by the Norwegian band Euroboys. It peaked at #2 on the Norwegian album charts.
Soft Focus is a contemporary romance written by Jayne Ann Krentz. It was released in hardcover by Putnam on January 3, 2000 and reached number 12 on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Usage examples of "soft focus".
They consumed large quantities of melange in their revelries, until heads grew light and coruscating vision blurred faces and surroundings to a beautiful soft focus.
Raw man, raw sex, was what he offered, in a world airbrushed into soft focus by his sheer beauty and seduction.
That night he saw every type of child porn imaginable: some of the photos wouldn't have looked out of place in a high-gloss coffee-table book, beautiful, soft focus, blond children in T-shirts, shorts, bare-chested under dappled trees -but some of the files at the other end of the spectrum made his stomach turn, weathered to it though he was.
Her eyes had about them the peculiar soft focus that he had noticed in them now and then when she was deeply involved in a puzzle or in communicating to him a particularly thorny Western concept.
I feel like a giant bride, decked out in ankle and wrist clips, gloves, and a brimmed hat with a veil that filters the meadow into soft focus as I follow him uphill toward the row of white box hives at the edge of Carmichael's pasture.
He caught her staring at him for a moment, but her eyes had enough of a soft focus that he knew she'd not been seeing or thinking about him.
The sharp edge of a table blurred into soft focus, and her head was filled with a high, faint buzzing.