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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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HT2198 - Observe a Pencil

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/16

HT2198 - Observe a Pencil In one of my high school science classes, the teacher gave us an assignment to observe a pencil. The idea was to write down as many observations as we could possibly think of in just looking at a pencil. After the allotted time, we wrote down on the chalkboard everybody's observations. It was fascinating how many obvious things so many of us had missed. I think about this high school assignment every time I'm out photographing.

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HT2197 - Keyword Hierarchies

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2025/03/15

HT2197 - Keyword Hierarchies Thank goodness Lightroom allows for keyword hierarchies. I'm assuming that other software does, too, and if not it's a shame. Here is an overview of how I use hierarchies to make finding that image I'm searching for a lot easier.

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HT2196 - Megapixels and Aspect Ratio

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/14

HT2196 - Megapixels and Aspect Ratio Did it ever occur to you that the megapixel rating for your camera is based on its native aspect ratio? A full frame camera with an aspect ratio of 3:2 will discard 12% of those if you print using a 4:3 aspect ratio. A full frame camera with an aspect ratio of 3:2 will discard 33% of the pixels if you print using a square aspect ratio. Essentially, your 44 megapixel camera becomes a 29 megapixel camera if you shoot a square format image. Does it matter? Probably

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HT2195 - Theme Walls

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2025/03/13

HT2195 - Theme WallsA while back I talked about poster hangers as an easy way to display prints. In particular, poster hangers facilitate a very easy change of prints on display with frequency. This has led me to discover what I'm calling a "theme wall."

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HT2194 - When Losers Aren't Losers

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/12

HT2194 - When Losers Aren't LosersThe other day I pulled out a box of prints that I last reviewed probably a dozen years ago. I was disappointed there were so many bad photographs that for some reason I had decided were worth printing and keeping. I then showed this collection to a friend who picked out three "losers" they wanted, thereby demonstrating that beauty really does reside in the eye of the beholder.

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HT2193 - The Best Glass You Can Get Your Hands On

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/11

HT2193 - The Best Glass You Can Get Your Hands On The number of camera reviews to be found on YouTube and the internet is mind-boggling. The minute a new camera is announced, the usual suspects are in a panic race to post their observations of the new camera and it's capabilities and shortcomings. Comparatively speaking, lens reviews are almost non-existent. Curious, in that a bad lens ruins all photographs made with it where even the worst cameras can be used to make good photographs.

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LW1444 - Books I Return to Time and Again

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/10

LW1444 - Books I Return to Time and Again Here is a short list of books I never seem to tire of and that I make time for re-viewing. Each viewing brings out more subtleties and things I missed in my earlier times with these books. 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 content. Sign up for instant access! You might also be

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HT2192 - Monochrome Viewfinder

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2025/03/10

HT2192 - Monochrome Viewfinder As a lifetime black and white photographer, I have to admit that I do not see in black and white. Some photographers have that uncanny skill, but I simply don't. I need help to see in black and white. I used to use the Fred Picker monochrome viewing filter, but now I just set my cameras to monochrome in my viewfinder.

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HT2191 - No Visible Difference, or Megapixel Agnostic

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/09

HT2191 - No Visible Difference, or Megapixel AgnosticThe other day I saw a YouTube reviewer make a comment that they can't see any difference between 44 megapixels and 60 megapixels .I'm working on a small project that will probably include 15 or so images. Curiously enough, about half of these images were shot with a 16 megapixel camera, the other half using a 20 megapixel camera. I'm making 13x19 in prints. That means the 30 megapixel camera is printing at 300ppi and the 16 megapixel camera is

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HT2190 - Sensor Noise in High Frequency Images

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/08

HT2190 - Sensor Noise in High Frequency Images No one likes noise. The techniques and tools for eliminating noise in a digital photograph abound. But no one ever seems to ask whether or not we really need to eliminate it. I recently discovered a situation in which the noise generated at ISO 12800 was invisible and I felt no need to go after it.

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HT2189 - Black Point

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/07

HT2189 - Black Point It is so easy in digital processing to set a black point. I've seen with regularity digital gurus set a black point for every image as one of their first steps in processing. Does every image need a black point?

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HT2188 - Repeat the Theme, Not the Image

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2025/03/06

HT2188 - Repeat the Theme, Not the Image Multi-image projects can be tricky to produce. How do we create a group that holds together as a group without becoming repetitious? Maybe we can see a clue to this conundrum by studying old Ludwig – Beethoven, that is.

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HT2187 - Do We Need Self-destructing Artwork?

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/05

HT2187 - Do We Need Self-destructing Artwork? I've often thought that the worst thing we can do to stifle our creativity is to amass a large collection of our own work. Once we have a closet full of prints, there arises a natural impulse to rest on our laurels. We think, we've already done it, or we've run out of room to store any more, or all the unsold prints dispirit our motivations, or enough is enough. If we could only make self-destructing work, there would always be a void for use to fill

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HT2186 - Refining the Project

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/04

HT2186 - Refining the Project I've learned a valuable photographic lesson by watching people who draw, that is who start with a blank page and a pencil. Their process is always to roughly sketch the basic shapes first, then refine, refine, and refine. That same approach works for developing a photography project, too. Well over ¾ of my creative time is spent refining.

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LW1443 - The Audience for Artifacts

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/03

LW1443 - The Audience for Artifacts I love physical prints. I grew up in the age of physical prints. I'm enamored with handling the physical characteristics of prints. That said, the overwhelming evidence is that our audience for physical prints will be a tiny, minuscule fraction compared to the audience for our digital creations. It's inarguable, and this both delights and pains me. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships

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HT2185 - Teaching Styles

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/03

HT2185 - Teaching Styles There are, no doubt, hundreds, maybe thousands of photographers who teach photography. Workshops, institutions, mentors, they are everywhere. (Myself included, I suppose.) I have faith that all of them are valuable, but not all of them are the best way for you to learn. That is something you will need to figure out for yourself.

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HT2184 - Angle to the Sun

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/03/02

HT2184 - Angle to the SunThe age old wisdom from the yellow box photo gods (Kodak) was to always put the sun over your shoulder. As has been true so many times, I find more success when I do the opposite of what Kodak advised.

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HT2183 - For a Mere 15,000 Bucks

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2025/03/01

HT2176 - Take a Risk Subtitle: Why I won't be upgrading my equipment any time soon. And by "soon" I mean forever. Unless I win the lottery. The really big lottery.

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HT2182 - The Next Great Challenge

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2025/02/28

HT2182 - The Next Great Challenge When I ask, I find that most photographers have a next great goal that challenges them. Often it's an upcoming trip to an exotic location. Or, perhaps buying and learning a new camera is often the next great goal. I would propose that for artists, the next great goal should be the completion of a large project, something sizeable with 40 to 60 wonderful images. A book or set of portfolios. In short, a major work.

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HT2181 - Five Workarounds I Use All the Time

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/27

HT2181 - Five Workarounds I Use All the Time Wouldn't it be great if cameras would do exactly whatever we wanted them to do, every time, always easily, and not require any hoop jumping on our part? But, there are no such cameras, so we are left with workarounds that will have to satisfy us. Hopefully, with a manageable amount of hoop jumping. Here are five workarounds that I use regularly.

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