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Originally Posted by Varzi Network
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I learned early on the using diffusion or softening filters on the camera often lead to disaster. The effects vary wildly depending on the aperture used and there is no way to remove the effect once the picture has been taken.
After screwing up a few hundred shoots, I decided there had to be a better way to get this effect and started adding all my softening effects in the darkroom - this worked wonderfully and if I decided I wanted a tack-sharp print, I still had a tack-sharp negative.
Wit the advent of digital photography and the associated photo editing software, it would be foolish (imo) to do any softening of the image in the camera. All of these effects can be duplicated with great ease in using even the most basic photo editing software.
Yes - the softening effect has it's place - but in post-production not in the camera.
My 2 cents..... I'll now crawl back under my rock.