Usually each photographer creates its own method to achieve the desired results in the final image here.
We will discuss equipment, here all depends on what we have in hand, a good lens with a perfect correction and a good lighting. this may seem secondary but it isn't, the brightness of a goal can affect the diaphragm. It is true that the optical quality is not so important in digital photography as it is on chemical picture, post decision process can greatly alleviate optical deficiencies. Cameras are another thing, here sensors have improved a lot, but light pollution between a sensor and the adjacent is the main problem and cause primary that effect blurry that all we have seen to open a digital picture and compare it with one from a negative.