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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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HT2281 - The Problem with Scanning Negatives

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

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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LW1456 - Too Much of a Good Idea

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2025/06/02

LW1456 - Too Much of a Good Idea A frequent characteristic we see in submissions to LensWork is when a photographer develops an interesting idea but then carries that idea too far with not enough image variations. The single image, a trilogy, perhaps even a Seeing in SIXES might be sufficient, but the photographer has explored the idea for 60 or 80 images and then neglected the all-important editing and selection process. Our old friend FOMO once again. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast

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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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HT2275 - Why They Call It Fishing

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2025/06/01

HT2275 - Why They Call It FishingYou've probably all heard that old canard that they call it fishing, rather than catching, for a reason. The exact same thing exists in photography. When I'm out in the field I prefer not to think that I'm making art, but rather that I'm exploring the world. The artwork comes from that exploration, but rarely takes place simultaneously. Being out there with our antennae in full use is its own reward. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free

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HT2274 - A Means to Depth

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2025/05/31

HT2274 - A Means to Depth She asked, "What is so special about photography?" I see photography as a means to explore the world, and that includes exploring our deeper self. I'm not sure photography is any better than any other expressive medium, but it's at least equal to any other artistic pursuit. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2273 - Why You Made the Photograph

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2025/05/30

HT2273 - Why You Made the Photograph Every image you finish was completed because of some purpose you had in mind. You have chosen to share something you feel is important enough to photograph and work into a finished project or framed image. Why? Doesn't it make sense that somehow that intent needs to be shared with viewers? We are all so bombarded with images these days that they are far too easily ignored unless we have a strong motivation for spending time with them. Why you made the photograph

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HT2272 - Black and White Is Almost Never Black and White

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2025/05/29

HT2272 - Black and White Is Almost Never Black and White Nothing in a photograph is quite so bothersome as when the black are crushed or the whites are blown out. I can understand in certain occasions when this is a desired aesthetic, but those are rare occasions. When we see it in a picture, it almost always seems to be a processing mistake. I find it's most often the result of bad monitor calibration. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

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HT2271 - Working a Location for Its Subtleties

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2025/05/28

HT2271 - Working a Location for Its SubtletiesEvery the time we stop our travels, get out of the car, and start looking for photographs, there will inevitably be a few that are easy, immediate, obvious, and likely cliché. I've come to accept the fact that I have to shoot those images — even though I will probably never use them — just to get them out of the way and move past them. It's only then that I can start working a location for its subtleties. Show your appreciation for our free weekly

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HT2270 - Beyond the Circle of Our Fellow Photographers

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2025/05/27

HT2270 - Beyond the Circle of Our Fellow Photographers One of my lifelong regrets about photography has been that the audience for most fine art photography, particularly for contemporary photographers, are other photographers. Who shops in the photography section in your local bookstore? Assuming, that is, that it has a photography section. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1455 - The Powerful Seduction of Representationalism

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2025/05/26

LW1455 - The Powerful Seduction of Representationalism The other day I spent about 40 minutes working on one of the new captures from Eastern Oregon. I converted it to a black and white, dealt with the delicate issues of balancing lights and darks, fussed and tweaked until I felt I had an interesting and artistic rendition of the scene that was an accurate vision of my response. The first comment I received from one of the family members was that she preferred the color image, before I had done any

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HT2269 - 3400 Pixels on the Long Side

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2025/05/26

HT2269 - 3400 Pixels on the Long Side There is still some confusion about file sizes that pops up from time to time. I remember magazines saying that they required a 15 megabyte file. That's a meaningless measurement that depends on the image compression. I'll occasionally get a question about what the PPI should be for submissions to LensWork. That, too, is a meaningless measurement. What counts is the pixel dimensions of the image, assuming that it hasn't been up-rezed. Show your appreciation

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HT2268 - Our Memory is Not Always Reliable

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2025/05/25

HT2268 - Our Memory is Not Always Reliable As photographers, our memory of the place or the moment we photographed can cloud what we remember about the images or projects we made there. Getting fixated on those memories can interfere with potential projects without our even being aware of it. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2267 - Cameras Don't Make Pictures, but They Do...

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2025/05/24

HT2267 - Cameras Don't Make Pictures, but They Do Make Pictures PossibleI've been photographing this week in eastern Oregon. I've been here so often, I shouldn't need to return. This time, however, I'm here with a digital camera and a long lens and the combination has allowed me to make images I've wanted to for decades but couldn't accomplish with a view camera. For example, so far I have at least a dozen long-form panoramas, the longest of which will print to 12-inches by 6-feet. Now I just need

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HT2266 - The Exotic Cliché

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/05/23

HT2266 - The Exotic Cliché It's always an adventure to photograph in an iconic location. But let's be honest, how much of an accomplishment is it to make a photograph that looks like thousands of others? I remember being stunned by the number of people at the Zabriskie Point overlook, so many that they've paved the walkway to the overlook to accommodate the masses. I didn't walk up there, but I did use the Port-a-Pottie in the parking lot. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our

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HT2265 - The Non-Exotic Location

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2025/05/22

HT2265 - The Non-Exotic Location Anyone can go to Yosemite and make an impressive photo because Yosemite itself is impressive. In fact, you have to work at it to make a bad photograph in Yosemite. I find that kind of photography fun and even rewarding — but not much of a challenge. As an artist who wants to progress in the creative life, I find it much more useful to challenge myself with images from non-exotic locations that require more effort to see creatively. Show your appreciation for our

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HT2264 - Why I Dislike Guidebooks

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2025/05/21

HT2264 - Why I Dislike GuidebooksI understand that as tourists there are things we must see in order to have the full tourist experience. As artists, however, isn't our challenge to see, experience, and interpret the world with our own response? For me, the act of discovery is the core of the art life, not the successfully completed checklist of pre-digested aesthetic tautologies. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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