In "Praying to Buddha" and "Idle," Shih has used soft focus in individual portraits. The two pictures were taken fifteen years apart, but they both display the photographer's customary feeling for life and powers of observation.
「念佛」（一九六五年）與「悠閒」（一九八○年）是施純夫用柔焦效果拍攝的兩幅人像，其間雖相隔了十五年，卻仍保持他慣有的生活情感與觀察理念。