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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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HT2325 - Two Approaches

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/21

HT2325 - Two Approaches There's an old joke that proposes that people have two distinct strategies about cooking dinner. Some decide what to eat and then go to the store to buy the ingredients. Others look in the fridge and cupboards to determine what they have already, then make a meal from that. Sounds pretty much like photography, don't you think? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2324 - Distill With a Single Word

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/20

HT2324 - Distill With a Single Word Here's a useful exercise for before you click the shutter. Ask yourself what this picture is about. Distill your answer to a single word. Pick a word that doesn't simply name the subject, but rather one that expresses your response to the moment. This is not as easy as it sounds, but it is incredibly useful in clarifying how you might want to compose the image and which elements to emphasize or crop out of the frame. Show your appreciation for our free weekly

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HT2323 - We Should Call It Grayscale Photography

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/19

HT2323 - We Should Call It Grayscale PhotographyIt took me a decade or so in my youth to realize that the term "black and white photography" implied a mindset that had me pursuing the wrong strategies. I was so single-mindedly dedicated to achieving the maximum black and a pristine white that I failed to notice that the most important tones were in the middle. Achieving deep blacks and clean whites are important aspects of a monochromatic image, but the magic is always in the gray tones. Show

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HT2322 - After the Social Gathering

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/18

HT2322 - After the Social Gathering I find it common during a social gathering that the conversation winds around to a topic that motivates me to want to share some of my images or a project that pertains to the topic at hand. I've learned, however, that trying to share my artwork at such moments is not only futile but disruptive. Instead, I find it more productive to wait until the next day and to email a link to the work on my website. I've found that almost everyone will then look at the work —

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HT2321 - Proprietary RAW vs DNG

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/17

HT2321 - Proprietary RAW vs DNG I'm not a fan of proprietary file formats. It seems to me that they have a way of putting our content at risk. I'm not comfortable with that. Instead, I use the open source DNG format for my working images in my Lightroom catalog. I do keep, however, all the original RAW camera files on backup hard drives just in case a future generation DNG converter adds features that I might find useful. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's

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HT2320 - Feedback During Processing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/16

HT2320 - Feedback During ProcessingLike all of my fellow Zone System photographers, I grew up and was trained with a foundational strategy known as pre-visualization. Since then, I've come to value the feedback available in digital processing as one of the core elements of a creative vision. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2319 - Adapting to the Possible

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/15

HT2319 - Adapting to the PossibleI've mentioned before that in my twenties and thirties I was an avid backpacker. Most of my landscape photography from those days is from deep in the forest, way out from civilization, in the solitude of pristine nature. My backpacking days are long over, but my landscape photography still continues. My landscapes these days are often from the driver's seat of my truck. We adapt to what we can do or our art career ends. Show your appreciation for our free weekly

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LW1462 - What and Why Are More Important Than Where

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/14

LW1462 - What and Why Are More Important Than Where Like many of you I suspect, I always look forward to travel photography when I have the time to do so. Now is the time of year when I start thinking about fall photography and start thinking about plans and locations. Every year I'm tempted to make the same mistake, thinking about where I want to photograph rather than what and why. It's so easy to be seduced by the popular destinations , but do I really need to photograph there? Again? Wanting to

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HT2318 - Accumulating Momentum

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/14

HT2318 - Accumulating Momentum There's often an unobserved momentum that accumulates with project oriented photography that is absent from single image photography. Single image photography often includes a dichotomy that makes an image successful or not. In contrast, project oriented photography builds a certain momentum over the months and years as candidates accumulate and the project is evolving. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

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HT2317 - The Masters Are Better Than We Think

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/13

HT2317 - The Masters Are Better Than We Think It's difficult to truly and fully admire the work of a master photographer until we try to do it ourselves. I remember being highly impressed with a body of work done by Aaron Siskin that consisted of abstracts of road tar patterns on the highway. I found a stretch of road that was similarly repaired and thought I'd try my hand at his creative vision. My total failure increased my admiration of his work tremendously. Show your appreciation for our free

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HT2316 - Photography and My Morning Coffee Routine

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/12

HT2316 - Photography and My Morning Coffee RoutineI start every day, 7 days a week, with photography — and my morning cup of coffee. I find that first half hour or so when the house is quiet and I'm not fully awake to be an ideal time to think about photography, brainstorm projects, and even visualize specific images. I don't sit in front of my computer and work in Lightroom or Photoshop, but rather let my mind warm up to the day while I try to be aware of whatever creative impulses bubble

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HT2315 - New Work Revitalizes Older Work

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/11

HT2315 - New Work Revitalizes Older Work There's an interesting phenomenon that I've observed now for a couple of decades. Every time I release a new issue of Kokoro, there is an upswing in downloads for previous issues. Of course, the current release is the volumetric winner in terms of downloads, but the accumulated downloads of back issues always exceeds the current release. In other words, publishing new work has a way of revitalizing older work. Plus, as the back catalog grows, the coattails

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HT2314 - The Fly in the Acrobat Ointment

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/10

HT2314 - The Fly in the Acrobat OintmentI love publishing PDFs for Acrobat for several reasons including cross platform compatibility (Mac, PC, tablet, etc.), layout integrity, typographic fidelity, and book-like pages. There is one drawback to PDFs, however, that is frustrating. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2313 - Anthologies

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/09

HT2313 - AnthologiesAs we all know, you can't please all the people all the time. This is one of the foundational philosophies behind the anthology nature in both LensWork and in my personal work published in Kokoro. The strategy here is that even though a reader might find any given project uninteresting, an anthology increases the possibility that each viewer will find something they like and appreciate. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought…

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HT2312 - Photo Vests

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/08

HT2312 - Photo VestsFor 50 years now I've had an on again, off again relationship with photo vests. I'll go through periods where I find them convenient, comfortable, and adequate, then periods when I find them too limiting. The real issue, obviously, is not the vest but rather the amount of gear I feel is necessary for me to do the work I want to do. That issue always leads me back to gear minimalism, and the search for the least possible gear needed. I'd long for the yesterdays of just a camera

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HT2311 - The Quiet Light, Digitally

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/07

HT2311 - The Quiet Light, Digitally John Sexton published a wonderful monograph of his work titled, The Quiet Light. His images glowed off the page. This effect was due to his extraordinary skill as a printer in combination with a side effect from reciprocity failure with gelatin silver film. It's wonderful aesthetic that was difficult to achieve but beautiful to behold. Now, with digital processing, it's a few clicks away and easy. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free

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LW1461 - The Photo Game Is Changing

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2025/07/07

LW1461 - The Photo Game Is Changing An incredibly important part of artwork is the wonder of how it could possibly have been done. When that mystery is removed, what's left is considerably diminished, unremarkable, even common. I've seen this happen to photography in the last 50 years. What could make photography wonderful (full of wonder) again? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access, terabytes

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HT2310 - What You Might Do Someday

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/06

HT2310 - What You Might Do Someday WIt occurs to me that marketing camera gear is all about convincing you that your current gear is somehow inadequate. It also occurs to me that art making art is the revelation of the possible, that is to say, all art is made with the tools we have at hand. No one, of course, is going to run an expensive marketing campaign to show you all the things your current camera is fully capable of accomplishing. We have to remind ourselves of the incredible capabilities we

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HT2309 - A Nagging Sense of Guilt

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/05

HT2309 - A Nagging Sense of Guilt It's been over a year since my last publication of a new issue of Kokoro. I feel a sense of guilt about this. In that same time, I've release 400 Here's a Thought, 60 podcasts, 60 episodes of Finding the Picture, 5 issues of LensWork, and that doesn't count episodes of Looking at Images, Seeing in SIXES commentaries, or Trilogies commentaries. So why this nagging sense of guilt? The pressure to produce takes many forms. Show your appreciation for our free weekly

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Removing Sharpness

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/04

Removing SharpnessMost (but not all) images require a sharpness that has us searching for and treasuring tack sharp lenses. We shouldn't let that, however, determine our aesthetic decisions. We can always reduce sharpness from a sharp capture if needed, but we can't create more sharpness than the lens captures. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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