Soft Focus Portfolio

My interest in soft focus photography may seem incongruent with my earlier view camera work, which has been more in the style of the f/64 group. For almost thirty years of working with large format cameras I have worked hard to create images of fine focus and detail. However, I have always had a soft spot for the Pictorialist photographers who created and worked with lenses that added an Impressionistic quality to their images. Aside from the obvious softness in the image, when the best features of a soft focus lens are used, a luminescence occurs in the image that I haven’t been able to create with my other lenses. It is this burst of light that creates, for me, the tension and excitement in these soft focus photographs.