Is this defocus or soft focus?

Looks like a soft focus. Picture could probably be a tad brighter.

I had two of my entries removed because mods said they were considered soft focus, not defocus...

if you are not happy, then red flag it!

u sure this is a one time OOF shot and not post edited..?

No post except contrast and auto-levels...the rest was done in-camera by zooming the lens during exposure...

But is it considered OOF?

I would hope so, the focus started at one point and was "dragged" along as shown by the lines...and ended at another point...

very nice and cool technique you used there.. Good Luck..

imo, this is ot...........this is a 'zoom' technique..........not really out of focus though!

OK Ade...image changed, although yes a zoom technique, This one was pretty much a 'failed attempt' and there appears to really be nothing in focus that I can discern in hi-rez, it all appears OOF to me???

difficult to determine.........there are elements that are oof, and there are other elements that are affected only by the zoom.......and because of this, nothing is really in focus as such.....

I like this one, it's beautiful and certainly not in focus.

Thank god.. and nice pic..

Kids... Ah, sometimes I miss when I was one.

Nice one.

There isn't supposed to be any photoshopping in the photography as you did here to his shirt--using brushes.

looks good, I will have to start a folder like that, instead of just deleting.

Ha ha - I like the file description. I usually just delete them too friiskiwi

awesome

nice one! HL