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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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HT2170 - Stop, Look, and Listen

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2025/02/16

HT2170 - Stop, Look, and ListenThis is not just advice for 4-year-olds learning to cross the street. It's pretty good advice for us photographers, too. I've been thinking about this as function of how we manage the ratio of drive time to photographing time by stopping, looking, and listening.

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HT2169 - Keylines and Other Edge Treatments

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2025/02/15

HT2169 - Keylines and Other Edge Treatments There was a short-lived fad in the days of film when photographers would file out the negative carrier for their 35 mm film so that the edge of the film would be a part of the enlarged image. Sometimes this worked great, other times it looked like a silly gimmick. Here in the digital age, edge treatments are so easily accomplished and offer unlimited creative potential - as long as it doesn't become a gimmick.

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HT2168 - Enlargement Limits

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2025/02/14

HT2168 - Enlargement LimitsIn my film days, I did extensive research about enlargement factors for my film negatives. How much enlargement was possible before the image started to break down, soften, reveal grain, and in general turn yucky? Regardless of film size, the nature of gelatin silver was that the limits of enlargement were universally 4X. What about digital images?

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HT2167 - Stop Looking for Shortcuts

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/13

HT2167 - Stop Looking for ShortcutsFor reasons I suspect are deeply held inclinations, it seems that photographers are always looking for shortcuts. The demand for plug-in, one click "treatments" grows with every generation of both software and photographers. We want to arrive without having taken a journey. What if the journey was the point? What if the art life is not a destination, but an ever-unfolding process that we engage because of the challenges and surprises we uncover along the way?

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HT2166 - Meeting Expectations

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/12

HT2166 - Meeting ExpectationsWhat is it that differentiates a good photograph from a lesser one? I'm asking this question seriously. If we can't answer it, how can we expect to make good photographs? When I press this question further, the answer seems to be that a good photograph is one that meets the viewers expectations. In my way of thinking, meeting expectations is the worst thing we can do with our images.

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HT2165 - PBWA - Virtues and Pitfalls

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/11

HT2165 - PBWA - Virtues and PitfallsI love to photograph by wandering around. I find some of my best photographs exploring unknown roads. On the other hand, I can waste a lot of time down those dirt roads because I find there's nothing there of photographic interest. But is this true? Is there nothing there or is it simply that my wandering has not coincided with the right season, weather, or my mood?

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LW1440 - Archival Fantasies

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/10

LW1440 - Archival Fantasies I was taught from my very first classes in photography the importance of archival processing and storage to preserve my work for future generations of admirers. I can't fault the concept, but the premise that my work will be of any interest to anyone in future generations does seem a bit farfetched. The audience we should really care about and pursue (if we choose to share our work at all) is our contemporaries. Besides, who better is there to promote our work than

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HT2164 - Printing Paper, Glossy or Matte?

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2025/02/10

HT2164 - Printing Paper, Glossy or Matte? Do you use glossy paper or matte paper for your prints? Warning, this is a trick question. Here are a few thoughts about paper surfaces.

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HT2163 - Provenance Information

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/09

HT2163 - Provenance Information The chances of our work becoming collectible and highly sought after are pretty slim, but just in case, we should think about including provenance information with our prints. I include that information on the surface of the print, near the bottom, in a position that doesn't interfere with matting or framing. In chapbooks and folios, it's a good idea to include a colophon page for such information.

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HT2162 - The Joy in Just Doing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/08

HT2162 - The Joy in Just DoingThe other day at a social gathering, I was asked why I do photography. The preface of the question was that there must be some reward in spending so much time and effort to make photographs, so what did I get out of it?

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HT2161 - Twenty-three Cameras, Indistinguishable Images

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2025/02/07

HT2161 - Twenty-three Cameras, Indistinguishable ImagesJust for fun, the other day I did a quick mental review of all the cameras I've owned and used in my life. After 50 years in photography, I've produced artwork with 23 different cameras. Isn't it curious that I can't see any qualitative difference between all that work produced with all those cameras?

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HT2160 - The Narrator

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/06

HT2160 - The NarratorA movie, a book, a play might have a narrator. The narrator is not a necessary component, but has a useful purpose in select projects. A narrator stands outside the plot and comments upon the action without being a part of it. I wonder if this technique can be used in a photography project? Has anyone done this in photography before?

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HT2159 - More on the Square Format

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/05

HT2159 - More on the Square FormatFor a while, in the 1970s, I owned and used a Mamiya C330 twin lens reflex camera that produced square images. It was my first introduction to the square format in photography. These days, I rarely see square images, I suspect because square-format digital cameras are such a rarity. That's unfortunate because square format images are a very interesting way to frame the world.

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HT2158 - Locked Away on Your Harddrive

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/04

HT2158 - Locked Away on Your HarddriveHow many images do you have in your Lightroom database? Don't we all know there are some really good images there that we are yet to share with anyone? As irrational as it might seem, I can't help but feel sorry for those images locked away on our hard drive that will never have a chance to bring joy or depth or understanding to anyone because we never finish them.

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LW1439 - Things I Wish I Had Learned in My Youth

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/03

LW1439 - Things I Wish I Had Learned in My Youth Here are five things I wish I had learned at the beginning of my photographic life. Craft is constantly changing; Fit the tool to the job; Forget about commerce with your art; Learning photography is a small part of what you will need to be an artist; and We live in The Age of Media. 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,

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HT2157 - What's New?

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2025/02/03

HT2157 - What's New? Invariably when I meet up with someone I haven't seen for a while they asked me what's new, what am I working on, what's the latest photography or project I've done? I don't ever recall anyone saying, "Let me see what you did 5 years ago."

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HT2156 - The 10-percent I Use

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2025/02/02

HT2156 - The 10-percent I UseWith amazing regularity, the software people and camera manufacturers are constantly upgrading their products. Hooray for the incredible engineering these people provide for us. That said, I think I only ever use about 10% of what the camera or software is capable of doing. Is all that engineering a waste or am I missing something I don't know that I need?

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HT2155 - The Unexpected Image

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/02/01

HT2155 - The Unexpected Image There are times (probably most of the time) when we are photographing on purpose, intently, with a concentrated zeal of a dedicated photographer. But there are other times when we light years away from photography and nonetheless we see an image. How sad it is when we lose those ideas that bubble up from the void. Perhaps it's a good idea to have a strategy for those images that are a gift from the Photo Gods — or our subconscious creative mind.

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HT2154 - To What Degree of Not Perfect

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/31

HT2154 - To What Degree of Not Perfect Every time we press that shutter button we do so because we think we are about to capture a winner. You wouldn't press the shutter release if you thought you were about to capture a loser. And then something happens between the time we press the shutter to the time we reject the image in Lightroom or Photoshop. Where did we make a mistake?

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HT2153 - Within the Necessary Requirements -...

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/30

HT2153 - Within the Necessary Requirements - Teleconverters vs Cropping Any time we throw away pixels - - for example, in cropping an image - - we know we are limiting ourselves with that image. But, is it a problem? I was doing a little math about this and came up with some surprising results. As long as what is left is with the necessary requirements, we haven't lost a thing.

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