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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 photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork

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HT2429 - Stuff Not Used

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/11/02

HT2429 - Stuff Not UsedWhen I get back from a big trip, one of the decompression things I like to do is review my gear use. Since I put so much time and thought into the kit I'll take with me, doesn't it make sense that I should review and see if my planning was well thought out? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2428 - Volumes 1, 2, and 3

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2025/11/01

HT2428 - Volumes 1, 2, and 3 Large bodies of work are difficult to consume. Think War and Peace versus haiku. Novelists know the advantages of breaking their narrative into smaller parts — chapters, sections, volumes. We can do that, too, as long as we remember that each section is its own entity and doesn't repeat the previous ones. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2427 - Ruthless Editing to the Narrative

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2025/10/31

HT2427 - Ruthless Editing to the Narrative I believe we have the opposite problem from the one our photographic forefathers had. Their challenge was to make a great photograph with primitive materials. Today, we can make hundreds or thousands of flawless images with ease. How do we choose which ones to show? We edit to the narrative, but first we need to determine what the narrative is. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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HT2426 - Sensor Clean X2

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2025/10/30

HT2426 - Sensor Clean X2 I cringe every time I see those fuzzy blue circles in the sky that indicate I have dust on the sensor of the camera. I was given a suggestion by a reader about one way to deal with this and used it religiously these last two months as I was out in the dusty West photographing. I'm delighted to report that I had not a single indication of any dust on any shot. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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HT2425 - Not Just the Most Recent

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2025/10/29

HT2425 - Not Just the Most Recent Now that I'm back from two months on the road, it's time to see what I have. For me, that process most often starts with building some collections based on potential projects. I add images from the recent trip into collections and then start scouring my previous images from the last couple of decades and add any of them to the appropriate collections. This forces me to think outside the recent captures and to be sensitive to larger trends I may not be conscious

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HT2424 - Problematic Bokeh

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2025/10/28

HT2424 - Problematic Bokeh A peculiar property of a long focal length lens is that it can render a semi-distant object ever-so-slightly outside the depth of field. Instead of looking like a nicely out of focus area from a shallow depth of field, it can look like a poor performing lens that simply can't render those objects sharply. The only answer is to stop down to increase the depth of field. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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LW1477 - The Problem with Location-Based Projects

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/10/27

LW1477 - The Problem with Location-Based Projects I've returned from my 2-months on the road and am starting the long process of reviewing the 3500 RAW captures. Almost immediately I divided the images into 43 potential projects, but then realized that all of them were location-based project ideas. There is a weakness in this that is not obvious. I call these types of projects "Portrait of a Place." They are easy to unify into a project, but there are alternatives that are often better. All

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HT2423 - Roads

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2025/10/27

HT2423 - Roads Landscape photography is inextricably tied to roads. Even if we are hiking into rough terrain, we get to the trailhead via a road. Photographically, not all roads are equal. I've been tooling down the Interstates to get home and doing no photography along the way. For me, photography is always at its best when I'm traveling down a dirt road. If you are not familiar with them, you need to know about Delorme maps. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily

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HT2422 - They All Come from Projects

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2025/10/26

HT2422 - They All Come from ProjectsWhat most of us tend to show matted, framed, and hanging in a place of importance in our home are the very best images we've created. But where do these come from? My observation is that most of those super winners rise from the midst of a project and become super winners due to actions beyond our control. For example, Dorothea Lange made lots of pictures for the FSA, but Migrant Mother rose from the crowd to become iconic. Show your appreciation for our free

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HT2421 - The Difficulty with Gray

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2025/10/25

HT2421 - The Difficulty with Gray I've started to work on some of the images from my trip and in particular those from the Badlands of South Dakota. These are tricky images to process just right because of an unexpected issue. Light gray can look either alive or depressed depending on the surrounding mat board or digital background. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2420 - Things or Moments

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2025/10/24

HT2420 - Things or Moments Ask a photographer what it is they make pictures of and the chances are they will answer THINGS or perhaps PEOPLE. Perhaps, but more likely than not what they capture a moment, at least in their better photographs. I always try my best to remember this when I'm out photographing, like when I was at Shiprock last week. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2419 - Bad Light

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2025/10/23

HT2419 - Bad Light Yesterday I was photographing in the South Dakota badlands and had a moment when I thought, "This is really bad light." It took me a minute to remember my own advice that there is no such thing as good light or bad light. There is, however, light that doesn't serve our preconceived ideas. "Bad light" really means that we are imposing our will on what the landscape is giving us. In other words, there is no bad light, there are only bad expectations. Show your appreciation for our

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HT2418 - Returning with a Zoom Lens

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/10/22

HT2418 - Returning with a Zoom Lens In the 1980s, I made a photograph of the hills near my grandmother's home in Tensleep, Wyoming. I was never thrilled with that image and finally had the opportunity to revisit the area last week. I found the hill I had photographed and realized instantly why I was not happy with the previous effort. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2417 - Gathering Strategies

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/10/21

HT2417 - Gathering Strategies I've talked on numerous occasions about my strategy of gathering assets while I'm in the field rather than pre-visualizing finished images. I've never mentioned, however, what I actually do while I'm gathering assets. Here's a quick overview of how I work in the field. Some may see this as indecision; I see it as providing options for when I'm back home making art. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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HT2416 - The Most Important Thing We Need

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2025/10/20

HT2416 - The Most Important Thing We Need We photographers are always on the hunt for a subject, a new technique, better equipment, and more time. I've come to realize, however, that the most important thing we need is access. How many times have you driven past a gorgeous scene with beautiful light but there's no place to pull off the road to make a picture? Or there's a fence, or gate, or barrier, or a regulation that blocks us from the position we need to make the picture. Show your

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LW1476 - Minor White and the Symbolic Image

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/10/20

LW1476 - Minor White and the Symbolic Image Minor White (one of my all-time favorite photographers) advised us not to photography only what it is, but to photograph what else it is. A catchy quote, but what does this actually mean? One answer is to think of photography as a medium to express metaphors and symbols. This prompts three levels of thinking: photography of something, photography about something, and photography that points to something. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are

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HT2414 - Going Back

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2025/10/18

HT2414 - Going BackI've had two instances of going back to photograph again something I'd already done once before. It's often said that we can't go back. I think there is every reason in the world to go back, not the least of which is that things constantly change Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2413 - Waiting for the Light

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2025/10/17

HT2413 - Waiting for the Light Yesterday, I was at a terrific location for high altitude mountain photography. The scene was lovely, the rocks majestic, and the snow a perfect accent to add texture to the rock face. The only thing that was missing was a splash of winter sun. I decided to wait. Five hours later, I got the break in the clouds I was waiting for. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2412 - The Crucial Missing Element from So Much of...

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/10/16

HT2412 - The Crucial Missing Element from So Much of Fine Art PhotographyOne of the most common reactions I have when I see great artwork is that I cannot comprehend how it was done. There is some magic in the fact that it exists which leads to wonderment about how the artist accomplished it. People used to feel that way about photography, too, but now the magic in photography is so easily dismissed with "It's been Photoshopped" whether that's true or not. Show your appreciation for our free

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HT2411 - Fleeting Ideas

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2025/10/15

HT2411 - Fleeting Ideas It's said that Charles Dickens during his long meandering walks through London, would always carry with him a notebook. He would jot down descriptions of interesting places he saw. He would capture interesting phrases people used or their accents and ways of speaking. He would then refer to these notes while he was writing his novels, using the little snippets of conversation he had overheard. Not a bad idea for us photographers, too. Show your appreciation for our free

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