Maybe B&W, as it is largely a monochrome (toned) collection
As to the images being unsharp ... I found them mostly to be sharp, just a lot of selective focus/dof control and or other post-capture creative manipulations.
On second thought ... Post Processing & Printing, as these seem to favor post processing in a variety of realms from developer choices to paper to toning, etc.
Oh, I'm sure there are a great many of them. Unfortunately, finding examples seems to be a fairly difficult chore. I don't have good image recall by selection criteria, nor do I save large sets of favorite images. Makes it hard to search for such examples. However, for example, virtually virtually all the old pictorialist work would fail the modern photo esthetic demands. Think Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz - great names who did excellent work with a different artistic taste.
AuntiPode wrote:
Oh, I'm sure there are a great many of them. Unfortunately, finding examples seems to be a fairly difficult chore. I don't have good image recall by selection criteria, nor do I save large sets of favorite images. Makes it hard to search for such examples.
Well, if you're looking for "interesting" but not technically antiseptic, then the Alt Forum is the place to go. While the "criteria" for the Alt Forum is other than Canon/Nikon, there is a plethora of images from lenses of yore (& present) that have "character" beyond that of the clinical antiseptic.
I'd recommend starting with the Alt Images Thread. You'll find literally thousands of such images in this and other threads (and archives) in the Alt Forum of such "non-clinical" works and discussions about the glass (and people) that produces them.
