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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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HT2244 - Sharp vs Tack Sharp

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2025/05/01

HT2244 - Sharp vs Tack SharpSince my earliest days in photography, I've recognized that lenses are far more important than cameras. Lenses touch the light which makes the image; cameras are primarily light-tight boxes that allow us to control how much light gets in, but they don't actually touch the light. Knowing a lens thoroughly is important, especially if you're looking to make a tack sharp image. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

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HT2243 - Orson Wells on Limits

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2025/04/30

HT2243 - Orson Wells on LimitsOrson Wells is said to have observed that "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” My interpretation of his thought is that nothing is as supportive to creativity as a structure. Here are a few examples from my creative endeavors. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2242 - Photography, a Verbal Art Medium

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/29

HT2242 - Photography, a Verbal Art MediumWe photographers like to think of photography as a nonverbal medium. Then why do we title our prints? Why does someone look at a sunset and think " beautiful"? When showing our work, why do we feel compelled to tell viewers where it was photographed and when? Is photography really a nonverbal medium, or is it a medium that is often supplemented with words? If we don't need words, why are photography books from other languages translated into our language

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HT2241 - The Right Amount of Difference

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2025/04/28

HT2241 - The Right Amount of Difference One of the primary challenges with project oriented photography is to avoid the deadly appearance of repetition. The images in the project need to be alike enough to go together as a unified body of work, but different enough to not become repetitive. Finding that balance is one of the greatest challenges in editing and sequencing a project. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1451 - Sharing Our Work, Goldilocks Style

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/28

LW1451 - Sharing Our Work, Goldilocks Style Let's say someone wants to come over to your house and see some of your work. What do you show them? Do you pull out one print and that's it? That seems arbitrarily limited. Do you bring out 500 prints? That seems a bit overwhelming. Viewer fatigue is a reality in sharing our work, so how do you decide what to make available? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10

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HT2240 - Prints Throughout the Day

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2025/04/27

HT2240 - Prints Throughout the Day As the sun crosses the sky, the light in our house changes dramatically. This is one of the primary reasons why I like to live with a print for a while before I am done with it. On many occasions as the light has changed I realized the print is slightly too dark or slightly too light. Art should live well over time, but the only way we'll know that is if we observe it over time. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a

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HT2239 - Two Things We Need More Of

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/26

HT2239 - Two Things We Need More OfIt is so easy to think that what we really need to take our photography to the next level is that better piece of gear, or more gear, or lots more gear. Looking back on my personal history with photography, it's never been new gear that has created an important piece of work or project. The true genesis of work — and therefore the two things we need more of — are ideas and time. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a

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HT2238 - Gear Overboard

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2025/04/25

HT2238 - Gear Overboard Exactly 50 years ago today I learned a valuable lesson in photography. I was photographing on the Oregon coast when I decided I needed to use a different lens for this one particular shot. I miss that lens. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2237 - Art-sized Prints

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2025/04/24

HT2237 - Art-sized PrintsHow large does a print need to be in order to be considered artwork? Snapshots are usually pretty small, 4x6" or so. If we make a 5x7" is that big enough to be considered artwork? 8x10"? Why do photographers so readily consider size of function of the seriousness of artwork? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2236 - Beyond Human Sensitivity

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2025/04/23

HT2236 - Beyond Human SensitivityWe are told that hawks have keener eyesight than we humans, so maybe they could see the ink dots in our digital prints. We can't because the technology has exceeded human visual sensitivity. Perception boundaries, once crossed shift advancement to other concerns. In the future, we can expect more intuitive and ergonomically advanced equipment. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2235 - The Life of a Book

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2025/04/22

HT2235 - The Life of a Book There's no doubt there's quite a thrill in having a book of your work published. There are, however, some realities of book publishing that are less comfortable than we'd like them to be. For example, it's a common fate for a book to be eagerly consumed by its new owner and then be relegated to obscurity on a bookshelf, often forgotten. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2234 - SIXES in the Field

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2025/04/21

HT2234 - SIXES in the Field When I first started playing with the idea of Seeing in SIXES (six image projects), I spent time scouring my Lightroom catalog for candidates and cousins. As my experience has evolved with this idea, I've found that thinking in terms of six image projects in the field has given me an entirely new approach when I'm out with my camera. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1450 - Ten Myths That Need Busting

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/21

LW1450 - Ten Myths That Need Busting In a technical and artistic pursuit like photography, it's not surprising that certain myths have developed over time. One of my favorite quotes is from G. K. Chesterton who said, "It's amazing how many things there are that aren't so." 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 expand daily with new

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HT2233 - A Stunningly Impressive Chapter

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2025/04/20

HT2233 - A Stunningly Impressive ChapterA common experience when reading a novel is to find one particular chapter or scene that is the heart of the book. That chapter presents the denouement or the action that has been building during all the previous chapters. Do we then remember that chapter and refer to it in conversation? Or does that chapter elevate the entire book? We recommend the book, not the chapter. The same thing happens with a photography project. Show your appreciation for our free

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HT2232 - Fifty Pounds of Gear

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2025/04/19

HT2232 - Fifty Pounds of Gear In my first photographic trip to Japan, rather than take suitcases, I packed everything I needed into my backpack for maximum mobility and foot travel. In those days my comfort limit for my backpack weight was about 70 pounds. With this in mind I packed a maximum of 20-pounds of clothing plus the pack itself, leaving me 50-pounds for gear and film. In my upcoming trip to the West Coast, I'll have a much more capable gear kit that weigh less than three pounds. Show

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HT2231 - Choose Your Challenge

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2025/04/18

HT2231 - Choose Your ChallengeI've often found it useful to divide photography into a set of competing challenges. How do you want to play with photography? Do you want to challenge yourself with the technical complications of making giant prints? That's valid. Or do you want to challenge yourself with the expressive complications of making more meaningful artwork? That's valid, too. And then of course, there are all the variations that combine both of these challenges. Show your appreciation for

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HT2230 - PPI Required for Printing

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2025/04/17

HT2230 - PPI Required for PrintingHow many pixels per inch are required for printing? Be careful; this is a trick question. In fact, as I've asked the question it is unanswerable without additional information or blind assumptions. What's the missing/assumed data? What is the viewing distance likely to be? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2229 - Software Updates, Image Updates

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2025/04/16

HT2229 - Software Updates, Image UpdatesHere's a question that's both philosophical and practical. When there is a software update that could dramatically improve an image you've already finished, do you go back and update the image because the software allows you to improve it in ways that were previously impossible? Or, do you leave it as is because you are busy doing new work rather than living in the past?

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HT2228 - Too much Fretting Over Gear

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2025/04/15

HT2228 - Too much Fretting Over GearI can't even begin to count how many photographic trips I've made in my 50 years of photography. One thing I do know is that before every trip I spend hours thinking about what gear to bring, particularly what lens — or lenses — to bring. Interestingly enough, I'm yet to return from a trip without successful photographs. That has me suspicious that I would find any random combination of gear and lenses satisfactory. Different pictures? Yes. But stymied? Probably

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HT2227 - The Balance of Input and Output

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2025/04/14

HT2227 - The Balance of Input and Output I can't help but feel that the path of an artist is one that balances input and output. If all we do is watch television, read, be entertained, it's difficult to be an artist. If all we do is work, produce, construct, it's equally difficult to be an artist. The key to the art life is finding the middle way, a balance input and output, where we take in, feel, think, and then produce with our response to the world.

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