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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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HT1927 - Fame vs Merit

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2024/06/13

HT1927 - Fame vs Merit Have you ever noticed how difficult it is for most unknown photographers to get published? In one of those dirty little secrets of the publishing industry, most magazines choose to publish the photographs of famous photographers because they want to ride the coattails of the famous individual. Needless to say, here at LensWork we've chosen a different path and try to bring to light the best work we can based on its merit.

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HT1926 - Good Teachers, Better Teachers

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2024/06/12

HT1926 - Good Teachers, Better TeachersHaving been a participant in workshops for 50 years (both as a student and as an instructor), I come to recognize that there are two types of instruction that are most prevalent. There are instructors who teach how to make images like they make. Then there are instructors who help you make the images that you want to make.

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HT1925 - Why Is Always More Important Than How

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2024/06/11

HT1925 - Why Is Always More Important Than HowThe technical questions of how to make a photograph dominate almost every YouTube channel, book on photography, workshop content, and much of our creative time. It has always seemed to me that the far more important question is not how, but rather why. Why do you want to make this photograph? Why do you want to share this photograph? Why do you choose to process this way rather than all the other possibilities? The art-life is asking why; our

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HT1924 - Blotchy Blue Skies

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2024/06/10

HT1924 - Blotchy Blue Skies For technical reasons I don't understand, aggressive processing in blue skies tends to create a blotchy appearance that is very unpleasant. This is true whether the image is color or black and white. I assumed the solution would be found in bit-depth, the Clarity tool, or possibly the new Lens Blur tool. Nope. So far, the solution escapes me. All 1900+ episodes of Here's a Thought . . . are available in their entirety to members of LensWork Online, our extensive

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LW1405 - Others Have Already Done It, But No One Has...

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2024/06/10

LW1405 - Others Have Already Done It, But No One Has Done YoursLooking back, I wasted so much of my photographic youth by studiously avoiding going to the obvious and iconic landscape locations. If someone famous had photographed there, I reasoned that they'd "already done it" so there was no reason for me to go there to photograph the same things. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access,

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LW1405 - Others Have Already Done It, But No One Has...

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/06/10

LW1406 - Active Viewing with Huntington Witherill A conversation with Huntington Witherill about a logical flaw in my current Editor's Comments in LensWork #168. 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 interested in. . . Every Picture Is a Compromise, a series at

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HT1923 - Make It Personal, But Make It Universal

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2024/06/09

HT1923 - Make It Personal, But Make It UniversalWe are all advised to photograph from our heart. The temptation is, however, to jump to the conclusion that the more personal our images the better they will be. The problem with this is that if your images become too personal, only you will be able to relate to them. The trick is to make it personal, but still preserve a sense of universality. All previous episodes of Here's a Thought . . . are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial

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HT1922 - Art and Physicality

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2024/06/08

HT1922 - Art and Physicality When I think of the word "artwork," I immediately think of physical things: Painting, prints, sculptures. But then there are lots of artistic media that are not physical in the sense that the art is not a thing: dance, music, theater, poetry, even novels. Where does this leave photography?

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HT1921 - The Still Image

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2024/06/07

HT1921 - The Still ImageIn an age in which life seems to be progressing at an ever faster pace, the still image/photograph is having a difficult time competing. I have no doubt that it's only a matter of time before we visit the Louvre and have an AI generated personal conversation with the Mona Lisa herself. Forget I said that. Shhhh. Don't give them any ideas.

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HT1920 - Stuck on the Shelf

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2024/06/06

HT1920 - Stuck on the ShelfA book stuck on the shelf is a sad thing. Don't you think that if books were sentient that they would want to be opened and enjoyed? I've been known to purchase a book because I have intentions of reading it, but never do. It's a bad habit and not only an insult to the book but also to the photographer.

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HT1919 - Your Favorite

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2024/06/05

HT1919 - Your FavoriteAs we all know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well, mostly, anyway. And as the creator of our artwork, we decided which is our best image and that is the one we typically print. What makes us think that our selection of "the best" is the same image that others will choose as their favorite?

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HT1918 - An Affordable Medium of Delivery

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2024/06/04

HT1918 - An Affordable Medium of DeliveryA book is not artwork, but a novel is. A book is a medium of delivery, a novel is the content that is delivered. Does the same logic apply to photography? What if I said that a print or a book is a medium of delivery the same way that an LP or a CD is a medium of delivery for music, but neither are the artwork itself?

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LW1404 - Enough Dynamic Range

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2024/06/03

LW1404 - Enough Dynamic Range Dynamic range is a bit of a technical topic for this podcast, but it's also an aesthetic one. I've recently become aware of this because of the photography I was doing at the Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. My inspiration for this work was from Linda Butler in her wonderful and very influential book, Inner Light: The Shaker Legacy. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial

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HT1917 - The Fusion of Craft and Content

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2024/06/03

HT1917 - The Fusion of Craft and Content We can't make artwork without craft, but craft without content is not art. When the two become fused, then there arises a magic that can take our breath away. I was reminded of this recently looking at some Albrecht Dürer original engravings. All 1900+ episodes of Here's a Thought . . . are available in their entirety to members of LensWork Online, our extensive resource library of our 30-year publishing history. Learn more about LensWork Online.

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HT1916 - The Opposite of Fog

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2024/06/02

HT1916 - The Opposite of Fog I love photographing in the fog. It has a way of turning the most complex landscapes into minimalist compositions. Snow can do the same thing. Strangely enough, I can be just as fascinated with the opposite of fog or snow, that is, incredibly complex patterns that seem quite chaotic. For me, the most difficult compositions are the ones in between that are neither minimalist nor cacophonous. All previous episodes of Here's a Thought . . . are available to members of

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HT1915 - Three Miracles

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2024/06/01

HT1915 - Three MiraclesI believe there are three miracles of human invention that continue to amaze me that they even exist at all. These are language and writing (books), the aural arts (music, recordings), and the visual arts (painting, photography). Through writing we can know what Sophocles thought millennia ago; through audio recordings we can hear what our grandparents sounded like; and via photography we can see the world that no longer exists.

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HT1914 - Learning from Each Project We Complete

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2024/05/31

HT1914 - Learning from Each Project We CompleteFinishing a photography project has multiple rewards not least of which is the manifestation of the artwork we produce. However, perhaps the most important thing we gain by finishing a project is what we learn in the process. Each project is a teacher as well as a culmination of our efforts.

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HT1913 - Why Think Deeply When You Can Think Instantly

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2024/05/30

HT1913 - Why Think Deeply When You Can Think InstantlyI know we can make a picture in 1/60th of a second, but should we? We've recently seen cameras introduced to the market that allow you to upload an image to your social media account instantaneously after clicking the shutter. Doesn't this completely miss one of the most important aspects of fine art photography?

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HT1912 - Searching the Interstices

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/05/29

HT1912 - Searching the Interstices I've been doing and thinking about project-oriented photography for so long that it's become a reflex for me to search the interstices between pictures for threads that connect them together. Looking through some photography books recently, I realized I was doing that reflexively when in fact there was no thread between the pictures, at least not one intended by the photographer.

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HT1911 - Style Is Not Content

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/05/28

HT1911 - Style Is Not Content This week Panasonic introduced a new camera that incorporates wide variety of picture styles that can be instantly applied in camera. These styles go by the technical name of LUT, an acronym for lookup table. Supposedly this will make your photographs more artistic. I'm not so sure.

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