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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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HT2134 - Nude Workshops

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/11

HT2134 - Nude WorkshopsIn 1998 when we announced a series of LensWork workshops, we received a call from a famous workshop instructor who complimented us on our offerings but advised that if we wanted to make money with a workshop program we had to offer nude workshops. By that I assume he meant nudes as models, not nude photographers. I thought about his suggestion for three nanoseconds and rejected it.

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HT2133 - There Is No Bad Light

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/10

HT2133 - There Is No Bad Light You've probably all heard that old outdoorsman's canard that there is no such thing as bad weather, there's just bad clothing. I think the same logic can apply to light and photography. There is no such thing as bad light, there are, however, subjects that look better in one kind of light compared to another.

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HT2132 - Focus and Sharpness Are Not the Same Thing

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2025/01/09

HT2132 - Focus and Sharpness Are Not the Same ThingPerhaps there are technical definitions for focus and sharpness I should know, but my intuition tells me there is a difference. Focus is an optical relationship between the lens and the sensor or film plane. Sharpness is a visual sensation about the smallest details.

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HT2131 - Framing Is a Decor Decision

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/08

HT2131 - Framing Is a Decor Decision There was a period in my creative life in which I sold prints matted and framed, ready for the wall. I regularly received the most curious feedback, however, that people would unframe my print and put it in a frame of their choice, a frame that matched the decor of their room. I've even had people removed my print from the mat board and re-mat it in a style and color of their choosing.

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HT2130 - The One Perfect Size

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/07

HT2130 - The One Perfect SizeI've witnessed numerous discussions in which a photographer has proposed the idea that there is one perfect size for every image. Making that image smaller or larger somehow diminishes it. I don't bring this topic up to attack or defend it, but rather to ask the simple question how do they know? In order to determine that there's one perfect size for a given image we would need to make it in every possible size to determine which one is the best! I don't ever recall

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HT2129 - All the Gray Hair Is Worrisome

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/06

HT2129 - All the Gray Hair Is Worrisome In the 1970s and '80s, there was a huge uptick of people engaging fine art photography. I suspect this was the result of luminaries like Ansel Adams bringing photography to the masses, but also a result of the increased quality of image reproduction in books. I never attended an Ansel Adam's workshop, but I've seen lots of pictures of those enthusiastic youngsters at Adams workshops.

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LW1435 - Photography and the Utopian Image

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/06

There is a distinct difference between photography that shows us the world and photography that shows us the artist's conception of the ideal world. The digital age has magnified Utopian Photography. I just watched a YouTube video in which a Photoshop guru improved a picture of a beautiful woman by brightening her teeth, deepening the color of her eyes, and removing all blemishes from her skin. He made a lovely photograph of a beautiful woman, but a thoroughly idealized one. All previous episodes

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HT2128 - Irrelevant Information

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/05

HT2128 - Irrelevant Information Every artist who knows their craft can explain it with some amount of detail. Does knowing how they do it make our appreciation of their accomplishment any deeper? Or is it better to be amazed and let go of our questions about how it was done?

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HT2127 - Tiny Prints

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/04

HT2127 - Tiny Prints I remember visiting the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1980s and seeing on display a collection of tiny prints in very large frames. As I recall, they were 35mm contact prints presented and framed in 16x20 matboard. The exhibition was unusual, but watching people view these prints was especially interesting. I noticed that everyone got very close to see the images, probably as close as they were comfortable focusing.

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HT2126 - About Backgrounds, Sort Of

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/03

HT2126 - About Backgrounds, Sort Of We need a new word other than "background" to describe what I want to discuss in today's commentary. We normally think of the background of a photograph as that part that's not the subject but is still inside the borders of the image. But every photograph has another background that is either the mat board of a framed print, or the margins around the image in a book.

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HT2125 - The Stunning Image Has Been Replaced

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/01/02

HT2125 - The Stunning Image Has Been ReplacedIf we look back at the history of photography and concentrate on what we now call "fine art photograph," we see that a great deal of the success of a photograph was its technological accomplishment. We'd look at a print and say, "Wowee, how did they do that?" In my youth, that question launched a pursuit of knowledge and craft that consumed many hours of my young photographic life. These days, I rarely see anyone receiving accolades for their print

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HT2124 - Montage

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2025/01/01

HT2124 - MontageIn 2016, we launched the idea of six-image projects we called Seeing in SIXES. We presented them in book format with one image per page in a six-page sequence. A variation of that idea has intrigued me of late. Why not place six images into a montage layout on a single sheet of paper?

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HT2123 - Over and Over and Over Leads to Boredom

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/31

HT2123 - Over and Over and Over Leads to BoredomWe all appreciate an amazing and wonderful photograph. We strive to produce them and collect them. If we are lucky and productive, we may someday produce a book of our very best. Here is my odd observation about a book filled with all breathtaking images: I get bored very quickly with winner after winner.

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HT2122 - A Picture OF, or a Picture ABOUT

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/30

HT2122 - A Picture OF, or a Picture ABOUT From time to time, someone will ask me a definition for the term "fine art photography." It's a difficult question. I often find it useful, however, to divide the images I see into pictures that are of something and pictures that are about something. The ones about something seem to my mind to be closer to art than the pictures that are just showing us what something looks like.

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LW1434 - What Kind of Photographer Are You

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/30

LW1434 - What Kind of Photographer Are You So much of what we do is a function of how we define ourselves. What kind of photographer are you? How you answer that question may limit your creative vision in ways you do not intend. 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 content. Sign up for instant access! You might also be

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HT2121 - Failure to Launch

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/29

HT2121 - Failure to Launch From time to time someone will recommend a book, a song, an artist, a singer who touches their soul deeply. I take a look, read a couple of chapters, listen to a song or two — and totally fail to connect with the recommended art. I don't know how to think about this. Am I insensitive? Am I resistant? Should I try harder? Feel guilty? Apologize? What is the best response when someone's masterpiece bounces off us leaving nothing behind in its wake?

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HT2120 - Identification Is Not the Same As Understanding

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2024/12/28

HT2120 - Identification Is Not the Same As Understanding In my teenage years when I was so interested in protozoology and the world I could see in the microscope, I spent the majority of my time trying to identify what I was seeing. Naming creatures was paramount to me. Looking back on this, however, I realize that naming them was shallow knowledge compared to observing their behavior. In photography, photographing a thing is not as meaningful as photographing the thing and its relationships to the

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HT2119 - Night Photography

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/27

HT2119 - Night Photography As I went to bed last night, I noticed outside my bedroom window a very sizable icicle being illuminated by the lights from our deck. The icicle was seen against a night black background. It was gorgeous. I grabbed my camera and quickly photographed it before jumping into bed. As I was drifting to sleep I found myself not thinking of icicles but rather about night photography.

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HT2118 - Seasonal Artwork

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/26

HT2118 - Seasonal Artwork I have a friend that changes her bath towels, dish towels, and napkins to match the season. Interestingly enough, however, that seasonal sensitivity does not motivate her to change the artwork on her walls. Why? Could it be as simple as the fact that matting and framing artwork is so cumbersome? Perhaps poster hangers might help!

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HT2117 - Two Types of Photographing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/12/25

HT2117 - Two Types of PhotographingI may be only speaking for myself here, but I've found that I have two completely different type of sessions when I am out photographing. Most typically, I'm definitely out photographing and I find a place where I photograph purposively, extensively, intensely for a few hours or even a few days. There are other occasions, however, when I'm not really looking for photographs, but they appear without me searching for them. These two styles of photographing require

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