soft-focus lens

British

noun

photog a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work

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Fourteen years later, the “Just Like Us” rubric is as gentle as a soft-focus lens.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2016

When he abandoned the soft-focus lens for one with a sharper focus, it was photography’s equivalent of Bob Dylan going electric.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2015

For Veronika, the '40s were all beautiful music and the caress of a soft-focus lens; the '50s are jangly cowboy songs and cruel chiaroscuro.

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