x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

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

arts visual arts

All Episodes

2:43

HT2272 - Black and White Is Almost Never Black and White

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/29

HT2272 - Black and White Is Almost Never Black and White Nothing in a photograph is quite so bothersome as when the black are crushed or the whites are blown out. I can understand in certain occasions when this is a desired aesthetic, but those are rare occasions. When we see it in a picture, it almost always seems to be a processing mistake. I find it's most often the result of bad monitor calibration. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

en-us

2:43

HT2271 - Working a Location for Its Subtleties

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/28

HT2271 - Working a Location for Its SubtletiesEvery the time we stop our travels, get out of the car, and start looking for photographs, there will inevitably be a few that are easy, immediate, obvious, and likely cliché. I've come to accept the fact that I have to shoot those images — even though I will probably never use them — just to get them out of the way and move past them. It's only then that I can start working a location for its subtleties. Show your appreciation for our free weekly

en-us

2:43

HT2270 - Beyond the Circle of Our Fellow Photographers

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/27

HT2270 - Beyond the Circle of Our Fellow Photographers One of my lifelong regrets about photography has been that the audience for most fine art photography, particularly for contemporary photographers, are other photographers. Who shops in the photography section in your local bookstore? Assuming, that is, that it has a photography section. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

en-us

12:54

LW1455 - The Powerful Seduction of Representationalism

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/26

LW1455 - The Powerful Seduction of Representationalism The other day I spent about 40 minutes working on one of the new captures from Eastern Oregon. I converted it to a black and white, dealt with the delicate issues of balancing lights and darks, fussed and tweaked until I felt I had an interesting and artistic rendition of the scene that was an accurate vision of my response. The first comment I received from one of the family members was that she preferred the color image, before I had done any

en-us

2:43

HT2269 - 3400 Pixels on the Long Side

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/26

HT2269 - 3400 Pixels on the Long Side There is still some confusion about file sizes that pops up from time to time. I remember magazines saying that they required a 15 megabyte file. That's a meaningless measurement that depends on the image compression. I'll occasionally get a question about what the PPI should be for submissions to LensWork. That, too, is a meaningless measurement. What counts is the pixel dimensions of the image, assuming that it hasn't been up-rezed. Show your appreciation

en-us

2:43

HT2268 - Our Memory is Not Always Reliable

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/25

HT2268 - Our Memory is Not Always Reliable As photographers, our memory of the place or the moment we photographed can cloud what we remember about the images or projects we made there. Getting fixated on those memories can interfere with potential projects without our even being aware of it. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

en-us

2:43

HT2267 - Cameras Don't Make Pictures, but They Do...

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/24

HT2267 - Cameras Don't Make Pictures, but They Do Make Pictures PossibleI've been photographing this week in eastern Oregon. I've been here so often, I shouldn't need to return. This time, however, I'm here with a digital camera and a long lens and the combination has allowed me to make images I've wanted to for decades but couldn't accomplish with a view camera. For example, so far I have at least a dozen long-form panoramas, the longest of which will print to 12-inches by 6-feet. Now I just need

en-us

2:43

HT2266 - The Exotic Cliché

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/23

HT2266 - The Exotic Cliché It's always an adventure to photograph in an iconic location. But let's be honest, how much of an accomplishment is it to make a photograph that looks like thousands of others? I remember being stunned by the number of people at the Zabriskie Point overlook, so many that they've paved the walkway to the overlook to accommodate the masses. I didn't walk up there, but I did use the Port-a-Pottie in the parking lot. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our

en-us

2:43

HT2265 - The Non-Exotic Location

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/22

HT2265 - The Non-Exotic Location Anyone can go to Yosemite and make an impressive photo because Yosemite itself is impressive. In fact, you have to work at it to make a bad photograph in Yosemite. I find that kind of photography fun and even rewarding — but not much of a challenge. As an artist who wants to progress in the creative life, I find it much more useful to challenge myself with images from non-exotic locations that require more effort to see creatively. Show your appreciation for our

en-us

2:43

HT2264 - Why I Dislike Guidebooks

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/21

HT2264 - Why I Dislike GuidebooksI understand that as tourists there are things we must see in order to have the full tourist experience. As artists, however, isn't our challenge to see, experience, and interpret the world with our own response? For me, the act of discovery is the core of the art life, not the successfully completed checklist of pre-digested aesthetic tautologies. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

en-us

2:43

HT2263 - A Deadline, 15-Minutes from Now

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/20

HT2263 - A Deadline, 15-Minutes from Now Recognizing the moment is a skill that all of us are in the process of developing — with greater and greater facility as our endeavors in photography deepen. Learning to see in trilogies and SIXES quickly is a practice that pays unexpected dividends. Rather than engage a project that requires time an dedication, why not experiment with a project that is completed quickly, say 15 minutes? Sounds unreasonable? What about 30 minutes, half a day, a

en-us

2:43

HT2262 - Treasure Every Opportunity

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/19

HT2262 - Treasure Every Opportunity The subtitle here is don't ever take anything for granted. He's been spending the last few days in Oregon, the place where I live for 35 years and did so much of my early photography. Now that I live in New York, Oregon has become an exotic location that I see and can photograph only rarely. I realize now what an incredible treasure and opportunity it was to spend so much time here exploring the coast, the farmlands, the gorge, the ranch lands, the desert. Show

en-us

12:54

LW1454 - Learning to Self-Critique

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/19

LW1454 - Learning to Self-CritiqueWhen I was starting out in photography I had no idea how to self-critique or even that it was a necessary skill I could develop. Looking back on it, I now realize that self-critique is the essence of the creative process. Too bad this isn't a skill that is taught purposely to all beginning photographers. Not what it is, but what it could be. What the image wants to be. Honesty, empathy, some visual literacy for context, and the experience and wisdom that come with

en-us

2:43

HT2261 - Seeing Is Not Composing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/18

HT2261 - Seeing Is Not ComposingA bit of a cliche for beginning photographers is SZM — Super Zoom Mind. We see, say, a distant mountain, pull up our camera and photograph it only to be disappointed when the mountain is so small in the print. We see the mountain with our telescopic mind rather than composing a picture that includes the mountain. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

en-us

2:43

HT2260 - Creativity Rejoices in Routine

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/17

HT2260 - Creativity Rejoices in Routine Two creative individuals who I particularly admire are Anthony Trollope and Johannes Brahms. What these two have in common and have provided as examples for the creative life is the consistency of their creative output by the routines they religiously kept. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

en-us

2:43

HT2259 - The Market for Used Photographs

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/16

HT2259 - The Market for Used Photographs I spent the day yesterday in one of my favorite used book stores, Robert's Books in Lincoln City, Oregon. This is a giant building filled to the brim with used books of every kind and age and interest you could possibly imagine. I picked up three volumes of short stories that I'd never heard of or seen before, treasures I am already enjoying here at the beach. And then it dawned on me, why is there no market for used photographs the way there is for used

en-us

2:43

HT2258 - An Anticipation Sport

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/15

HT2258 - An Anticipation Sport I am not a sports or wildlife photographer. What I mean by that is that I'm not trained nor practiced at doing that kind of photography. Recently however, I set out to photograph my grandkids at their softball game. My respect for sports photographers has skyrocketed. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

en-us

2:43

HT2256 - My Inaccurate History of Photography

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/13

HT2256 - My Inaccurate History of Photography We have each created our own photographic literacy and history of photography by the books and exhibitions we've chosen to see. That necessarily leads to holes in our understanding. For example, I know very little about German photography — and I know that hole in my knowledge means I'm missing some great work. And that is just one example! Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

en-us

2:43

HT2255 - Moments Happen

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/12

HT2255 - Moments Happen Managing moments doesn't seem like it would be the core of the creative life, but the longer I pursue the art life the more I think managing moments is the key to success. Elsewhere, I've mentioned capturing ideas when the bubble up from our subconscious. Gear is another example. We all crave and love a full-featured camera that allows it to make the images of our dreams. Many times, however, such a dream machine comes with a penalty that completely neutralizes its

en-us

12:54

LW1453 - To Thine Own Self Be True

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/12

LW1453 - To Thine Own Self Be True A friend of mine was recently offered an exhibition in a nice gallery. He was excited for the opportunity, but then began the negotiations and compromises the gallery requested. For example, the gallery wanted him to adopt a limited edition strategy which he doesn't do. The gallery wanted a certain kind of mat board and framing. Is it advisable that we allow the gallery to influence our artistic endeavors like this? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are

en-us

675 results

Similar Podcasts

Start The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!

thebookvoice.com

Get Hooked On The Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Experience!

thebookvoice.com

西四五条

主播郑捕头

Podcast Patapoe

0d0a

On Mic Podcast

Jordan Rich