Originally Posted by
ColonelJLloyd
AZORCH, have you forgotten how to turn off that fuzzy-around-the-edges setting on your camera?

Nope! It's a technique I started using on my blog to establish a sort of visual continuity. (Vasoline on the edges of the lens, selective burning and dodging during post processing.) Believe it or not, my reputation was actually originally built around straight photography and now my patrons all seem to want this ethereal look. Go figure!
But this, too, shall run its course.