Soft focus portraits use carefully selected lenses, many of which are legendary. Jack Ledbetter uses these tools to create soft, evocative images. His large format portraits are compelling and mesemerizing, his subjects and their world captured in a moment of stillness for the world to see.

Jack’s collection of soft focus portrait lenses include a Verito lens, Vitax lens, velostigmat lens, Imagon lens, Pinkham and Smith lens, Heliar lens, Schneider Symmar lens, Gundlach Meniscus lens, and Wollensak lens.