soft focus

English

Noun

soft focus (uncountable)

1. (photography) The blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.
   • 2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.