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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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HT2293 - Stitching as a Wide Angle Workaround

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

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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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HT2290 - What We Remember Is Questionable

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2025/06/16

HT2290 - What We Remember Is Questionable We all carry dozens if not hundreds of images in our mental gallery. But does our mental gallery accurately and completely retain all that we've seen in a image? Here's a fascinating exercise that makes a powerful point about what we remember. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1458 - Lessons in Editing

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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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HT2289 - What Is Gained with a Large Print

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2025/06/15

HT2289 - What Is Gained with a Large PrintLet's pretend we could measure a viewer's response to a photograph. If they look at a large print, say 28x42" and have X amount of experience, what fractional portion of X will they have with a smaller print, say an 8x10"? Caution, this may be a trick question. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2288 - Lightroom Mobile Now in My Everyday Workflow

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2025/06/14

HT2288 - Lightroom Mobile Now in My Everyday Workflow Until recently, I never considered Lightroom Mobile a serious tool. Simply said, my phone screen is too small for me to consider Lightroom Mobile's image processing of any value. Last fall, however, I discovered a use for a couple Lightroom Mobile features that now consistently contribute to my everyday workflow. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2287 - What Causes Rejection

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2025/06/13

HT2287 - What Causes Rejection What characteristics of an image you are working on causes you to reject it? What characteristic of an image causes of viewer to reject it? Are these the same things? If not, are we fretting and fussing over elements in our images that are without consequence to our viewers? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2286 - I Dropped a Lens

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2025/06/12

HT2286 - I Dropped a LensOops, crash, bounce, ouch. Not the first time, and I'm sorry to say probably not the last time. The question after dropping a lens is always a concern that some glass has slipped out of alignment. To find out, I did some pixel peeping to see if the lens was performing up to standards. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2285 - Fast Lenses in the Age of DeNoise and Lens Blur

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2025/06/11

HT2285 - Fast Lenses in the Age of DeNoise and LensBlurI use shallow depth of field less frequently than a lot of photographers, probably because I don't shoot many portraits. Nonetheless, I've always carried a fast prime for those occasions when I might need it. Truth be told, I can't remember the last time I used it. According the EXIF data in Lightroom, it was 6 years ago for a few shots and before that was in 2013. Do I still need a fast prime? Show your appreciation for our free weekly

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HT2284 - Five Clichés to Improve Your Photography

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2025/06/10

HT2284 - Five Clichés to Improve Your PhotographyIt's easy to discount bumper-sticker wisdom as trite and simplistic. One the other hand, K-I-S-S is always good advice. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1457 - Straying from Conventions

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2025/06/09

LW1457 - Straying from Conventions Everybody complains about dandelions in their yard, but photographically they are just gorgeous little plants. Who among us has not photographed a dandelion once it's gone to seed? This has me thinking about other botanical subjects. Photographs of roses, orchids, peonies, calla lilies, all well and good. But why does no one ever photograph poison ivy, thistle, mullein, and all the other weeds against which we are so prejudiced? The artist's role is to be a seer,

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HT2283 - Message in a Bottle

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2025/06/09

HT2276 - I Like That One Creating art is an act of unrequited faith. We produce and send our work out into the world. Like the author of a used book, we have no idea where or when our work might connect with a viewer, or if it ever will. That's a reality we'd best be comfortable with or that unknown might discourage our productivity. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2282 - Photographer, Storyteller, Artist, Observer

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2025/06/08

HT2282 - Photographer, Storyteller, Artist, ObserverWhen I first picked up a camera in high school, I set my sights on becoming a photographer. With the passage of time, I started to realize my role as a storyteller. Eventually, I became comfortable with the term artist. Lately, I've been using the term observer. Perhaps we are all a blending of these characteristics. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2281 - The Problem with Scanning Negatives

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2025/06/07

HT2281 - The Problem with Scanning Negatives I once calculated, just for fun, that I have exposed, developed, and ready for printing about 12,000 negatives. My creative life is bifurcated between those negatives and my current digital archives. I keep thinking I should go back and scan those negatives and add them to my digital assets. The problem is that I now recognize, in my maturity, how truly immature (i.e., awful) many of those images are. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast

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HT2280 - I Am A Contemporary of Walker Evans, Yikes

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2025/06/06

HT2280 - I Am A Contemporary of Walker Evans, YikesAt an early workshop that I attended and showed my nascent Made of Steel work, the instructor suggested that 100 years from now or more I will be considered a contemporary of Walker Evans. That is to say, our work will be seen in the context of photographers who have proceeded us by generations. My sense of being flattered was quickly overpowered by debilitating intimidation. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily

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HT2279 - Deciding Which Media

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2025/06/05

HT2279 - Deciding Which MediaWe are so fortunate to have so many potential media we can use for each project. Print, book, folio, chapbook, PDF, web gallery — and I'm sure I forgotten some. For each project we do, an important decision is which media (plural) shall we use? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2278 - Pruning Is the Essence of Aesthetics

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2025/06/04

HT2278 - Pruning Is the Essence of AestheticsWe gather, we collect, all around us grows, and seems to have a momentum that is perpetual. Every gardener knows that the essential activities they must engage include not just planting, but pruning, shaping, clipping with a sensitivity to a garden aesthetic. Is it just coincidental that artmaking contains the same essential activities? We capture, our image base grows, but our essential job is to prune, shape, and edit our way through the image jungle

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HT2277 - The Intersection of Life and Scene

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2025/06/03

HT2277 - The Intersection of Life and SceneI'm wrapping up my month in Oregon and reflecting on what I've seen and photographed here during these last few weeks. There is so much left to do, but time is running out. Come to think of it, that sense of the incomplete is a lifelong reality for every photographic trip I've been on. Perhaps that is just the nature of being an artist; we live in the intersection of life and scene. We accumulate moments with a little luck and happenstance. Our work is

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HT2276 - I Like That One

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2025/06/02

HT2276 - I Like That One When someone looks at a collection of my chapbooks or PDFs and says, "I like that one" I know I've failed completely. The statement, "I like that one" is a statement about them and their values with which my artwork just happens to agree. My artwork succeeds when they say, "I've never thought about that" or "I've never looked at it that way." Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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