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So it didn't take long for a few e-mails to arrive along these lines: "I don't know why you keep insisting that soft focus backgrounds are dependent on 'professional cameras' and/or sensor sizes.
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The other reason could be the out of focus background.
In a few months, Martha Stewart herself will move a chunk of her empire of Irish linens and out-of-focus backgrounds into the building.
The construction of the images, with their proximity to Saul and out-of-focus backgrounds, comes off more as a strategy than as an experience.
On the street, he had an unerring eye for isolation in a crowd, and he could turn the insufficiencies of camera vision, the blurs of light seen too fast, the impressionist haze of imperfectly focused backgrounds, into acceptable shorthand for sight.
The foggy out-of-focus backgrounds are a combination of the last five years of police riots from Hong Kong to Ferguson.
Once the province of New Mexico-dwelling art-teacher aunts, they can now be found in the seasonal impulse-buy areas of drugstores, the soft-focus backgrounds of boring people's latte Instagrams, and the concierge desks of mid-priced corporate chain hotels.
For example, clutter and sharply focused backgrounds can add context, contrast, and colour; perfect symmetry in a shot can be dramatic, and so on.
The more likely you are to get that professional soft-focus background look.
That soft-focus background effect is a hallmark of professional photography — and of big-aperture, big-sensor cameras.
What's the point of a huge sensor if you can't get the soft-focus background?
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