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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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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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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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HT2234 - SIXES in the Field

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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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HT2233 - A Stunningly Impressive Chapter

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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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LW1449 - The Goal of the Process

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/14

LW1449 - The Goal of the Process As someone looks at one of your images, Is that the end of a process of the beginning of one? Is viewing your image the end of their engagement with it? Or do we hope viewing our image is the beginning of a small mental journey that engages their imagination, poses a few questions, or moves them to a further experience? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access,

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HT2226 - The Least Camera Needed

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2025/04/13

HT2226 - The Least Camera NeededTed Orland opened my eyes about gear. He advocated that we should choose a camera that's fit for the job but the least capable camera we can. His idea was based on the observation that the more capable the camera, the more complex, and the more complex it is the more it intrudes into the connection between us and the subject. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2225 - A Selective Literacy

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2025/04/12

HT2225 - A Selective Literacy There are so many photographers, so many books, so many exhibitions, that it's virtually impossible to achieve anything even close to visual literacy in photography. Instead, we each have our own understanding of photography based on a fractional appreciation of what's being and been produced. We all love photography, but what we mean by that is entirely dependent on our own selective literacy. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily

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HT2224 - Printing Monochrome with a CMYK Press

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2025/04/11

HT2224 - Printing Monochrome with a CMYK Press Most commercial printing presses that you might employ to print your book will use the four-ink process that is the standard in the industry. Simply said, these presses use a combination of cyan ink, magenta ink, yellow ink, and black ink to achieve a sufficient simulation of human color vision. That's where the trouble begins. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2223 - The Annual Best Of Series

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2025/04/10

HT2223 - The Annual Best Of SeriesBecause I love reading short stories so much, over the years I've collected a number of anthology books that are "the best short stories of the year." This could be a pretty good idea for our photographs too, don't you think? What were your best images from, say, last year? What makes those images qualify as The Best? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2222 - Explore More Deeply

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2025/04/09

HT2222 - Explore More DeeplyStarting in 2009, I produced a series of annual projects under the title, Winter Trees. Each year for seven years, I produced a new five-image project for the series which was produced as a folio and as a PDF. To date, this remains one of the most difficult projects I've ever done for the simple reason that each year it became progressively more difficult to see the same subject in a new and different way

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HT2221 - Shadow Writing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/08

HT2221 - Shadow WritingI've always thought it was curious that photography is defined by its very nomenclature to be "light writing," but what we actually do is write the shadows onto white paper. If we think about what actually happens when we make our photographs, it helps make better decisions about how we control the exposure and what processing steps we need to pay attention to as we write the shadows onto the white background.

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HT2220 - The Lasting Impression

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/04/07

HT2220 - The Lasting Impression Someone has taken time out of their busy life to attend your gallery exhibition, visit your website, or look at your book. What is it you want them to take with them when they leave the gallery, move to new website, or put your book back on the bookshelf? What is the lasting impression you hope your work inspires in viewers?

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