Who's A Big Softie?: Deliberately Spoiling The Definition of Your Pictures

摘要

There are plenty of reasons to eschew perfect sharpness. A classic application was to suppress lines and wrinkles, or just for a light, airy mood: as Tallulah Bankhead once said, "They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum." Another reason is to create the sense of something half-remembered, imperfectly limned in the picture as in the memory; or there can be nostalgia, which is closely related. There are pictures in which tonal masses, or the impression of speed, or some other factor, are more important than fine detail.