Soft focus

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.

This article is about the term used in photography and optics. For other uses, see Soft Focus (disambiguation).

An image of a bottle with a heavy soft focus effect.
An image of the same bottle, but without soft focus.
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