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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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HT2298 - Style and Presets

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2025/06/24

HT2298 - Style and PresetsYou may have heard me talk about style in a previous podcast. I find that style today is not a single aesthetic for a photographer's career, but rather an aesthetic the is appropriate for a project. Each project we do has a style that amplifies the content. Presets have a role in this way of thinking. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1459 - Permanence Is Not a Property of the Medium

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2025/06/23

LW1459 - Permanence Is Not a Property of the Medium All of us who are serious about photographic prints have been trained to care enough about our images to process them to the highest archival standards. The premise behind this is that the longevity of our work lies in the permanence of the medium. But is that true? Books are perhaps one of the most substantial ways that we can share our work, but books disappear. Maybe the key to longevity is not the medium but rather the content, relevance, and

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HT2297 - Abandoned Buildings Are More Than Abandoned...

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2025/06/23

HT2297 - Abandoned Buildings Are More Than Abandoned Architecture Along with sand dunes and waterfalls, the most frequent subject we see in submissions to LensWork is abandoned buildings. Particularly prevalent are farm houses and industrial sites. What distinguishes these projects is the extent to which they tell a story of the people who are now gone rather than the architecture that remains. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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HT2296 - Selective Color

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2025/06/22

HT2296 - Selective Color For much of photography's history, a fundamental decision for photographers revolved around whether an image should be color or black and white. Such thinking, in the age of digital processing, now seems perfectly archaic. Selective color is a wonderful technique that inherently includes new options in composition. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2295 - The Fruitless Search for Perfection

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/06/21

HT2295 - The Fruitless Search for PerfectionArtmaking by definition (especially in photography) seems to be the search for perfection. Perfection, like a perpetual motion machine, is an illusion — one might even call it a sickness. If the perfect isn't the goal, what is? Words that come to mind are immersion, connection, harmony, awareness. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2294 - A Real Photographer

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2025/06/20

HT2294 - A Real Photographer "You have a really good camera, you must be a real photographer." We've all heard this. What does it mean to be a real photographer? I'm not sure this is an answerable question, but it feels to me that it has to do far less with gear and far more with a state of mind. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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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HT2283 - Message in a Bottle

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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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LW1457 - Straying from Conventions

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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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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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