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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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HT2307 - Memory Card Lifespan

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/07/03

HT2307 - Memory Card LifespanThe other day I mentioned my search for new hard drives to replace my aging, 5-year old ones. I received an email from a listener who brought to mind another aspect I'd never thought about. He mentioned that the memory cards we use in our cameras also are subject to aging and should also be replaced every 5-10 years just like SSDs. I've used the same cards for over a decade. Time to do some more research and shopping. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast

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HT2306 - Enough with the Vibrance Already

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2025/07/02

HT2306 - Enough with the Vibrance AlreadyThe vibrance and saturation sliders are taking over the world. I use a Windows PC and every day when I fire up my computer, I'm confronted with and over-saturated landscape. This morning's abomination set a new record. I didn't realize it was possible to crank up the saturation control to 1,000, but it is. My concern is that if dialing up the saturation is a virtue, then its opposite (realistic or muted color) is becoming a sin. Show your appreciation for

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HT2305 - It Truly Makes No Difference

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2025/07/01

HT2305 - It Truly Makes No DifferenceI was putting together a new project for the next issue of Kokoro when I realized that the 15 images in the final edit came out of 14 different cameras. Looking at the images, I would never be able to identify the camera without referring to the metadata. The lesson? You already own a sufficient camera, no matter what camera you own. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2304 - Tablets vs Phones

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2025/06/30

HT2304 - Tablets vs Phones With each issue of LensWork, we make a tablet edition for those who prefer the convenience of a digital publication. I suspect most people don't use a tablet for the tablet edition; they use a smart phone. That is, they view a 2¼x3¼" image rather than a 7x8" image. Should we care? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1460 - What Makes a Photograph Special

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/30

LW1460 - What Makes a Photograph Special I'm seriously concerned that photography has become too easy. Craft is no longer a serious virtue. Because it has become so easy, it is losing its sense of being special. This is particularly true for fine art photography. What, today, makes a photograph special? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access, terabytes of content, inspiration and ideas that

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HT2303 - Limited Edition, um, Cheerios

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2025/06/29

HT2303 - Limited Edition, um, CheeriosWhat do your photographs and Honey Nut Cheerios® have in common? They are both produced in a limited edition, that is, according to the cereal box I was reading this morning at breakfast. Surprisingly, that didn't make the Cheerios more valuable. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2302 - How the Work Gets Done

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/28

HT2302 - How the Work Gets Done I've heard the art making process on occasion described as taking dictation from God. It's as though the artwork is completely formed before we begin producing it and all we have to do is execute the craft. I've never had that experience. Instead, for me, I have to begin the process of art making before I know where the conclusion Will lead me. I have to have faith in the process. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a

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HT2301 - Real World Corner Sharpness

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/27

HT2301 - Real World Corner Sharpness A while back, I purchased a new lens and needed to give it a good test to see how it performs. The most difficult areas for most lenses are the corners. The corners on this new lens were a little soft, so I set out to compare that to my very best, super-sharp lens. The tests gave one result, but the real world suggested a different result. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2300 - Pounce, With the Patience of a Cat

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2025/06/26

HT2300 - Pounce, With the Patience of a Cat We are babysitting some cats this week and I've been watching how fascinated and patient they are watching the bird feeder just outside the living room window. They sit for hours watching, hardly moving. Then, when the opportunity arises, you can see they just want to pounce but for the window between them and their target. Watching them reminded me of advice from David Hearn, the MAGNUM photographer Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and

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HT2299 - Time for New Hard Drives

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/25

HT2299 - Time for New Hard DrivesI'm not an expert on technology so I listen to the advice of those who know. I once read that it is a good strategy to replace our hard drives every 3-5 years or so. It's been five since my last updates, so I've been on the hunt. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2298 - Style and Presets

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2025/06/24

HT2298 - Style and PresetsYou may have heard me talk about style in a previous podcast. I find that style today is not a single aesthetic for a photographer's career, but rather an aesthetic the is appropriate for a project. Each project we do has a style that amplifies the content. Presets have a role in this way of thinking. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2297 - Abandoned Buildings Are More Than Abandoned...

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/23

HT2297 - Abandoned Buildings Are More Than Abandoned Architecture Along with sand dunes and waterfalls, the most frequent subject we see in submissions to LensWork is abandoned buildings. Particularly prevalent are farm houses and industrial sites. What distinguishes these projects is the extent to which they tell a story of the people who are now gone rather than the architecture that remains. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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LW1459 - Permanence Is Not a Property of the Medium

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2025/06/23

LW1459 - Permanence Is Not a Property of the Medium All of us who are serious about photographic prints have been trained to care enough about our images to process them to the highest archival standards. The premise behind this is that the longevity of our work lies in the permanence of the medium. But is that true? Books are perhaps one of the most substantial ways that we can share our work, but books disappear. Maybe the key to longevity is not the medium but rather the content, relevance, and

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HT2296 - Selective Color

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2025/06/22

HT2296 - Selective Color For much of photography's history, a fundamental decision for photographers revolved around whether an image should be color or black and white. Such thinking, in the age of digital processing, now seems perfectly archaic. Selective color is a wonderful technique that inherently includes new options in composition. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2295 - The Fruitless Search for Perfection

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2025/06/21

HT2295 - The Fruitless Search for PerfectionArtmaking by definition (especially in photography) seems to be the search for perfection. Perfection, like a perpetual motion machine, is an illusion — one might even call it a sickness. If the perfect isn't the goal, what is? Words that come to mind are immersion, connection, harmony, awareness. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2294 - A Real Photographer

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2025/06/20

HT2294 - A Real Photographer "You have a really good camera, you must be a real photographer." We've all heard this. What does it mean to be a real photographer? I'm not sure this is an answerable question, but it feels to me that it has to do far less with gear and far more with a state of mind. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2293 - Stitching as a Wide Angle Workaround

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2025/06/19

HT2293 - Stitching as a Wide Angle Workaround The other day I was out photographing with a single lens, a longish zoom, and found myself in a pickle. The shot I wanted required a wide angle of view I would normally capture with a wide-angle lens. Since I didn't have one, I simply stitched a pano and accomplished a result that was close enough. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2292 - Everything Bigger Is More Complicated

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/18

HT2292 - Everything Bigger Is More ComplicatedBigger cameras, bigger prints, bigger books, bigger projects — all are more complicated because of their size. If your project has become overwhelming, consider downsizing as a means to simplify the challenge. A favorite maxim of mine is that "It's better to say one thing well, than to say too much poorly." Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2291 - The Director's Cut in Photography

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2025/06/17

HT2291 - The Director's Cut in PhotographyWith lots of movies these days, there is a commercial release version and a longer, more inclusive "director's cut." Why can't we do the same sort of thing with our photography projects? At the end of a PDF project, for example, what if there was a section with additional images, or link that went to a web gallery that included images that were not used in the "commercial release" version? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free

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LW1458 - Lessons in Editing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/16

LW1458 - Lessons in Editing In 2009, I visited an exhibition in China that included some 1,500 photographs. I learned two things in the presence of such a firehose of images. First, good work does not elevate the whole, but the whole can drag the good work down to its level. Second, that exhibition led me to a better way to use Lightroom's star ratings when editing a project. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only

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