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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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HT2152 - So-called Decorative Arts

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/29

HT2152 - So-called Decorative Arts I don't often hear people use the term "decorative arts" anymore. Is photography a decorative art? Or, is photography a medium for more personal artistic expressions? Or is it both, thereby confusing both producers and consumers?

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HT2151 - Making Art Is Asking Questions

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/28

HT2151 - Making Art Is Asking Questions On the surface of things, showing our artwork feels like a declarative statement. We've addressed some subject and are presenting our audience a proposition. In all of this there are lots of statements and facts. The beginning of the process, however, that is to say the making of artwork, is always about asking questions. What can I do with this? Why is this significant? What do I want to communicate?

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LW1438 - The Target Audience

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/27

LW1438 - The Target Audience If you don't have a target audience in mind when you produce your work, then how do you know what to produce and how? Of course, for most of us, our target audience is ourself. Perhaps that's as it should be for all artists, but if we are the only target audience, doesn't that seem a bit futile? 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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HT2150 - This Moment Will Never Repeat

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/27

HT2150 - This Moment Will Never Repeat The older I get, the more I realize that my photography is an accumulation of unique moments. The Japanese have a phrase that captures this spirit: Ichi-go, ichi-e. Photography provides us, no, it seduces us to become one with the moment. With this in mind, the purpose of our photography is not the product, but rather the experience.

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HT2148 - Post-exposure Chimping vs Focus Peaking

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/25

HT2148 - Post-exposure Chimping vs Focus PeakingOne of my frustrations with current cameras has to do with checking the focus once I've captured the image. When I magnify the image in the viewfinder or on the screen, the image degrades to the point I cannot determine whether or not the image is sharp. The blue "focus peaking" markers are a much better gauge, but are not available on all cameras.

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HT2147 - Completely Manual Mode

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/24

HT2147 - Completely Manual Mode Just as a curiosity, I set my camera to completely Manual Mode to remember what it was like to be a photographer in my youth. Manual focus, manual aperture, manual shutter speed. I have no idea how we ever succeeded with all-manual cameras. I think "f/8 and be there" was not just a strategy, it was a survival mechanism.

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HT2146 - George Tice, RIP

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/23

HT2146 - George Tice, RIP I think because I grew up in Oregon on the West Coast, my introduction to photography was the grand landscape and those photographers who emphasized the beauty of nature. Somewhat later, discovering the work of George Tice became a crucially important step in my personal development. Tice made images that were just as exquisite as the landscape crowd, but his subject was very East Coast, yet mesmerizing.

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HT2145 - A Thousand and One Diversions

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/22

HT2145 - A Thousand and One Diversions There is a scene in the 1991 movie City Slickers when the cowboy, Curly, is asked the secret of life. He holds up his index finger and says do one thing. Great advice, but very difficult to accomplish in this age of multitasking and a thousand diversions

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HT2144 - The Chosen One

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/21

HT2144 - The Chosen One When I developed the idea of folios and started producing them in 1990s, I experienced a most unexpected bit of feedback. With almost perfect statistical distribution, each image in a folio would become someone's favorite. At first I thought this was a curiosity, but I've come to realize it's more significant than that.

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HT2143 - Truth

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/20

HT2143 - Truth Photography has, for very dubious reasons, established itself as a truthful medium. Photographs can be used as evidence, and its objectivity is legend. But of course we photographers know that photography can easily be untrue, too. As an art medium, do we care? Don't we all know that all other media of art are fictions? Do any of us worry about the truthfulness of a painting, a sculpture, a novel, a poem, a song, a bit of theater?

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HT2142 - Increasing Your Odds of a Sharp Image with a...

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/19

HT2142 - Increasing Your Odds of a Sharp Image with a Slow Shutter Speed I love simple solutions to pesky problems. One of the odd advantages of digital photography is that we can capture as many images as we want and then discard the bad ones later. We don't have to worry about the cost of film and processing like we did in the old days. This opens the door to a statistical advantage that is worth exploiting.

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HT2141 - Panorama Images in Books

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2025/01/18

HT2141 - Panorama Images in BooksAn almost unsolvable problem exists with the challenge of including panorama images in books. On a single page, they are so small. Splitting the image onto facing pages implies that awkward jump in the gutter. A folded so-called "gate fold" is expensive.

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HT2140 - The Audio Archive

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/17

HT2140 - The Audio Archive I know that some of you have been listening to my musings on photography for years, but I also know there are a lot of you who are new listeners. Allow me a moment here to draw your attention to the archive that is available to LensWork Online members of every podcast and every Here's a Thought going back to the earliest days. There are currently over 1,400 long-form podcasts and over 2,100 short Here's A Thought commentaries. Have fun exploring them!

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HT2139 - Lost Glory

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/16

HT2139 - Lost GloryI've been revisiting the work of some of my photographic heroes. This is the work I loved, cherished and emulated in my youth. Lots of that work (and some of those masters) have not aged well. It's clear to me with the passage of time that they and their photographs were a product of their times. By today's standard, their accomplishments seem, well, quaint and/or primitive. Is it fair to judge their work by today's standards?

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HT2138 - Three Cameras Are Better Than One

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/15

HT2138 - Three Cameras Are Better Than OneBefore I went to China for the first time in 2009, I developed a deep-seated fear that I would discover my camera was broken and that my trip to that far off land would result in no photographs. To reduce that risk, I purchased a second camera, thus beginning my two-camera strategy. More recently, I've added a third camera to my basics, but for a different reason entirely.

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HT2137 - Stop Learning and Start Doing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/14

HT2137 - Stop Learning and Start DoingThere's always more to learn in photography, but if we're not careful learning can become our primary if not sole activity. I've said for years that the best way to approach a photographic life is by finishing work. That means doing — and ironically the more you do the more you will learn without the focus being on learning. Said another way, workshops are great but not as a diet

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HT2136 - Earning a Living with Fine Art Photography

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2025/01/13

HT2136 - Earning a Living with Fine Art Photography I'm sure there are people who make a living selling their fine art photographs. I know two such individuals. Period. You see, there is a fundamental economic reality that can't be avoided and that is that the buyer determines what sells. We may want to make personally motivated, personally expressive photography, but if that's not what buyers want to acquire, we have little chance of selling work. So what do we do? We find ancillary ways to pay

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LW1437 - It Takes Time

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/13

LW1437 - It Takes Time So much in photography these days takes place at breakneck speed. I'm not sure that's a good thing. Think of how many hours it takes for a pianist to be prepared for performance. Think how many hours it takes a poet to get each word and phrase just right. Why do we photographers think we can snap a picture and upload it to Instagram and that it will be lasting and meaningful artwork? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online

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LW1436 - Until There Is a Print

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/13

=LW1436 - Until There Is a Print There's a school of photography that maintains the idea that digital images are not really fine art photographs. These photographers insist that a photograph has to be physical, but is that true? Music isn't physical, it's merely auditory, but it's considered art. Poetry need not be physical, but it's considered art. Why is it so hard to accept the idea that a digital image is art? Could this be related to our attempts to sell or images which need to be produced in

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HT2135 - Opacity and Bleed Through

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2025/01/12

HT2135 - Opacity and Bleed Through All physical prints exist on a substrate, usually paper. It's a good idea to know a bit about paper and to pay close attention to the way it affects your image. Especially important for books are the two characteristics known as opacity and bleed through.

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