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Elegant Wild Flowers - Pure & Sweet (Vol.03)

22. Fluff of Dandelion, Soft Dreamy and Bokeh Wallpaper ( 1920 + 1600)

Wallpaper Resolution(s) : **1024768 | 1280800 | 12801024 | 1440900 | 16001200 | 16801050 | 1920*1200 |**

Beautiful Summer : Sunshine, Field and Green Leaves

| Soft focus Green Leaves - Fresh and Pure Green Leaves, 42pics, 1600*1200 + 1920*1200 |

| Refreshing and Dreamy Summer : Water, Air and Greenery |

| Sunshine Grassland and sky (Vol.1) - Dreamy and idyllic summer field, 68pics, |
| Sunshine Grassland and sky (Vol.2) - Blissful Field and lush treess, 47pics |

Soft focus

In a soft-focus image, highlights are surrounded with an almost imperceptible glow that softens both contrast and fine detail—an effect quite different from out-of-focus images, or lack of sharpness resulting from camera shake. Soft focus has long been popular for portraits, especially for flattering the complexions of women who are no longer in the first flush of youth, but it has gone in and out of fashion for other subjects such as landscapes, still lifes, and flower studies.

The classical route to soft focus is via a specially computed lens, in which spherical aberration is deliberately under-corrected. The lens is used at a wide aperture, because stopping down reduces spherical aberration. The results obtainable with such lenses, especially on large-format cameras, cannot be equalled in any other way: Hollywood portraits from the 1930s are perhaps the perfect example, shot on 20.3 * 25.4 cm (8 * 10 in) film with 400 to 600 mm (16 to 24 in) lenses as fast as f/3 to f/6.

With smaller formats, or with soft-focus screens instead of purpose-made soft-focus lenses, the effects are less predictable and generally less successful. The most successful soft-focus screens, such as the Zeiss Softars, when used on a roll-film camera such as a Hasselblad, can give effects that are all but indistinguishable from true soft-focus effects on larger formats, at least in colour. Soft-focus monochrome with small cameras is the most difficult of all.