LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art ph...
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HT2721 - The Future of Photography
Here's a Thought… #2721 with Brooks Jensen
He said, "It's a fantastic camera. It does everything for me." I responded, "Too bad it doesn't autom...
HT2720 - Purposely Off
Here's a Thought… #2720 with Brooks Jensen
Awhile back, I made a landscape image in which I desaturated the naturally bright blue sky to an emot...
HT2719 - Blade Runner and Puccini's Butterfly
Here's a Thought… #2719 with Brooks Jensen
Do you ever go back and revise a previously finished image or project? I don't. Maybe I should. Somet...
HT2718 - Accessory Fever
Here's a Thought… #2718 with Brooks Jensen
I cringe when I think about all the money I've spent on accessories that sounded like a great solutio...
HT2717 - Too Many Notes, Words, Images
Here's a Thought… #2717 with Brooks Jensen
I've often said that this is the best time in the history of photography to be a photographer. There...
HT2716 - Fun Is a Medicine
Here's a Thought… #2716 with Brooks Jensen
I assume that all of you listening to these commentaries take your photography pretty seriously. You...
LW1518 - The Hard Work of Being an Artist
LW1518 - The Hard Work of Being an Artist
The minute we pick up a camera and decide we want to make pictures more meaningful than snapshots, we...
HT2715 - The Power of Titles
Here's a Thought… #2715 with Brooks Jensen
Titles have such power to steer the viewer in directions we intend. I've often used the example of Do...
HT2714 - To Know a Photographer
Here's a Thought… #2714 with Brooks Jensen
There are so many photographers I think I know because one of their images has become important to me...
HT2713 - An Excuse to Explore the World
Here's a Thought… #2713 with Brooks Jensen
I'm pretty convinced that I don't need to add any more images to my Lightroom assets. I have enough R...
HT2712 - Why the Sharpest Lenses
Here's a Thought… #2712 with Brooks Jensen
I've always thought that spending money on the best lenses made more sense than expensive cameras. A...
HT2711 - One Kind of Photography
Here's a Thought… #2711 with Brooks Jensen
You know that old business about what books you would want with you on a desert island? Just for fun,...
HT2710 - Your Best Is Often the Least Important
Here's a Thought… #2710 with Brooks Jensen
An over-emphasized component of fine art photography is the assumption that "making stone-cold winner...
LW1517 - Why Make Art
LW1517 - Why Make Art
I don't want to sound morbid or fatalistic, but we are all headed for the ink maintenance tank at some point in the future...
HT2709 - The Return to Film
Here's a Thought… #2709 with Brooks Jensen
I think I understand why some photographers are returning to film and analog photography. There is a...
HT2708 - Better Than I Remembered
Here's a Thought… #2708 with Brooks Jensen
With some frequency now, I find that as I look back at my older unprinted archives, I'll stumble upon...
HT2707 - Blind Spots and Habits
Here's a Thought… #2707 with Brooks Jensen
Now that I've been photographing for decades, there are some subjects and trends that have become mor...
HT2706 - The Intersection of Sensitivity and Moment
Here's a Thought… #2706 with Brooks Jensen
Every waking moment is an opportunity to make a photograph — but we don't. Moments don't ris...
HT2705 - Abundance Can Be a Curse
I had a couple of weeks last fall to photograph in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado. The weather was perfect, the fall colors at their peak...
HT2704 - A Photographic 2-Minute Drill
There is a situational strategy in football when the time runs short. It's called the "2-minute drill." Its essence is accomplishing a lot in very sho...
HT2703 - Internalizing the Scene
I assume that all of you are aware of the idea that a camera is a mirror, that every picture we make is a reflection of who we are. There is a kernel...
HT2702 - When a Group Ceases to Be a Group
One of the interesting things about a multiple image project is how the viewer assembles the collective idea that binds the images into a unified expr...
LW1516 - Beyond the Rectangle
LW1516 - Beyond the Rectangle
We photographers have quadrilaterals on the brain. Why? The world is not quadrilateral. Why not compose in circles...
HT2701 - A Personal Pile
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. I have a "personal pile" of prints that I rarely (often never) share with anyone. They are not embarrassing, no...
HT2700 - Small Bites
I wish my brain worked in a continuous straight line, but it doesn't. I bounce from idea to idea. For years I've fought this by trying to be creative...
HT2699 - The Creative Life Is a Daily Habit
Here's a Thought… #2699 with Brooks Jensen
It's almost a cliché to suggest that a creative life is a daily thing. The truth is that it's...
HT2698 - My Favorite Features of Digital Processing
It seems that with digital processing we can do anything — and do it, if need be, at the pixel level. I find, however that there are a few tools that...
HT2697 - New Life for Old Ideas
Over the last 50 years in photography, I've had a number of ideas that I thought were good at the time, rejected because they were too odd, and now re...
HT2696 - Photographs Are Never Real
The arguments against AI are often punctuated with concerns about those images being fake. Aren't all photographs fake? All photographs are flat, two-...
HT2695 - Creative Possibilities for Two-sided Inkjet Paper
The availability of two-sided inkjet paper has opened up fascinating doors of creativity. With two-sided paper we can do folded paper books like chapb...
LW1515 - On Your Walls at Home
LW1515 - On Your Walls at Home
What artwork do you have hanging on the walls at your house? What photographic artwork do you have hanging in you...
HT2694 - Motivating the Viewer
Imagine that I wanted you to read Tolstoy's War and Peace. What would your reaction be? On the other hand, what if I suggested you read today's funny...
HT2693 - Every Picture Is a Story, or Should Be
It's probably silly of me to make such a definitive statement, but I can't help but think for the vast majority of images the story told through the v...
HT2692 - Lessons from My EPIC Series
I've just posted episode #1600 in my series Every Picture is a Compromise. I started this project with the idea of being helpful, but interestingly en...
HT2691 - Art As a Shortcut
Hopefully without sounding too hedonistic, I would propose that life is experience. Mortality, however, being what it is, prevents us from unlimited e...
HT2690 - Start Anywhere
Don't have an idea for a project? Pick an image at random and spend some time processing it. It's less important that you're processing that image tha...
HT2689 - New Software Capabilities vs Convenience Features
Software updates have become a part of every digital photographers routine. Every time a new software update is announced, I look forward to new capab...
HT2688 - Outside the Box
We've all heard that age-old maxim about creativity and "thinking outside the box." We are supposed to hear this exhortation relative to our unconscio...
LW1514 - Where You Draw the Line
LW1514 - Where You Draw the Line
We are fast approaching that point where each of us need to draw the line about our involvement with AI and pho...
HT2687 - You Must Have a Really Good Camera
How do these kinds of notions become so wide spread? If I owned a Steinway, would that make me an accomplished pianist? Would a fancier fountain pen m...