The visual upgrade is quite striking, despite
the soft focus photography and sepia - look, delivering a considerable level of sharpness and clarity missing in the 2006 Fox DVD.
Seemingly out of their elements, Cliff and Cydney make the classic mistake of befriending the wrong people, a thriller staple, but the filmmaker never goes on automatic pilot; he composes with
soft focus photography to give a sense of ambiguity at key moments whenever both couples are within the same frame.
Not exact matches
The film looks good for the age, not amazing, but the
photography was never meant to be crystal clear, so the
soft focus stuff looks good, but doesn't crackle with the same authority as some films of the period.
Non Stop Destination
focuses on
soft adventure with a touch of luxury, inviting our readers to come explore this world with us through storytelling and
photography.
Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's
soft -
focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to move photographic portraiture from pure documentation to artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed cyanotype of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also shows how early photographers checked the quality of their images before digital
photography.
In the mid-1920s, he experimented with
soft -
focus, etching, Bromoil Process, and other techniques of the pictorial photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz who attempted to produce
photography on an equal artistic plane with painting by trying to mimic it.
While the filter of time and familiarity, the abstraction of black - and - white
photography, and the
softer focus and smaller scale of earlier photographic processes have made these images less shocking, they remain commanding in terms of formal qualities and content.