Today I tried out a technique I learned in an online course recently. For this you wrap a piece of tulle material around your lens secured with a rubber band so that it covers the edges of the lens and gives the picture a soft edge with a touch of colour, depending on what colour material you use. A geranium and a gerbera I currently have in the house were beautiful subjects. I worked with a 150mm lens and, of course, a tripod.
Draping the fabric around my lens hood was really fiddly and there was not much control as to where the fabric arranged itself. So I ended up taking my lens hood off and stretching two layers of material with a hole in the middle over the lens and used manual focus through the hole. That produced some pleasing 'arty' results, and I am looking forward to improving on these when better light is available.
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