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In keeping with the last few days of soft focus I'm presenting this image. I photographed this little May Fly with a 200mm f-4 Canon Macro lens. In order to get the soft focus here (I'm going to share one of my secrets here) I used a flat black women’s’ knee high nylon stocking stretched across the front of the lens. All held in place with a rubber band. The larger the aperture the more pronounced the effect. This image was shot at f-5.6. That was done in order to maintain the out-of-focus background. That isolates the subject, making it stand out, especially if the background is pretty much the same color and contrast.