Lens-Artists Challenge #237: Softening an Image.

Yesterday’s nice weather had us outside and, in the garden, roses were ready to be plucked and used as the centerpiece for the table. Perfect for this week’s Len-Artists Challenge. In this challenge Bren of Brashley Photography is hosting and it seems it is right up my alley with softening of a photograph.

The camera in my bag is now the Canon R6, and yup, used here with the 100mm lens. It is my go-to camera and lens these days as you who follow know. This lens (as explained in previous posts) allows the image to have a blur to it without any software help. However, the image below was uploaded into Lightroom to emphasize the red rose and add more shadow to the background for this challenge. This made the blur a bit softer and less aggressive on the whites in the image.

In the below 2 images the processing didn’t need much to soften the look but I did turn down the clarity and add some vibrance in Lightroom as the sun was taking a bit of the color out. Using an f/3.2 made just the area I wanted in focus to showcase the softness of the flowers just a tad more.

This challenge was all about processing softness into the image and since this lens does that for me in camera, I haven’t used LR for that purpose in a while, so this was fun to do. There is so much one can do during processing and it is a lot of fun for that creative spurt many of us get. I only put a couple up because of that reason. I spent about an hour just playing around and lost time. *smiling* There could be hundreds… ugh.

Thanks for stopping in and if you are interested in the Len-Artist Challenges you can hit the below link to find out more.

Til next time,

Lens-Artists Challenge Host Brashley Photography

The host of the Lens-Artists challenge changes. Below are the links to the hosts sites.

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Guest host