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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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HT1842 - Another Way to Increase Sharpness

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/20

HT1842 - Another Way to Increase Sharpness Is there a lesson about sharpness we can learn from comic strip artists? Perhaps. They hand draw their comic strips much larger than we see in the newspaper. The image is then reduced to fit the size we see in print. That size reduction increases visual sharpness. There is a bit of a parallel with photography.

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HT1841 - Identify the Barriers

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/19

HT1841 - Identify the Barriers There are things we want to do, and there are things that prevent us from doing it. A good first step is to identify the barriers. Write them down. Make them concrete. Then explore the possibilities of your work if that barrier were completely eliminated. Not resolved, not a solution developed, but simply eliminate the barrier entirely. What's left?

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LW1393 - On Destinations

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/18

LW1393 - On Destinations In an overly simplistic way, I tend to divide the arena of fine art photography into two camps. For some photographers, the destination/location is the thing they pursue to make the best photographs. For others (myself included), the pursuit of ideas/response/connection is the thing that drives our efforts. It can be useful to consider this train of thought not only for our own photography, but in helping to understand the motivations and work of other photographers All

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HT1840 - Textured Paper

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2024/03/18

HT1840 - Textured Paper One of the reasons I like folios, chapbooks, and other handheld photographic media is because of the tactile sense of texture that can come through with certain papers. But tactile texture is not the only texture: we can also have visual texture, which is often the only texture that can be realized in a framed print on the wall. All 1800+ episodes of Here's a Thought . . . are available in their entirety to members of LensWork Online, our extensive resource library of our

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HT1839 - Your Cloud Inventory

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2024/03/17

HT1839 - Your Cloud Inventory Photoshop's relatively new Sky Replacement tool is a fantastic addition for fine art photographers. It also motivates us to collect an inventory of cloud images that we can use with other pictures. Another great example of gathering assets! 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

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HT1838 - More on Natural Vision

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2024/03/16

HT1838 - More on Natural VisionDoes your natural vision lens create your best photographs? Or do the best photographs come about when you use a lens that is not your natural vision, but one that you need to work a little harder with because it doesn't come easily?

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HT1837 - The Best Lens I Ever Owned

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/15

HT1837 - The Best Lens I Ever Owned A few weeks ago I was shopping for a specialty purpose lens, and that has had me thinking about lenses I have used in my career. What are the characteristics of a lens that make it attractive? Is it sharpness? Aperture? Edge to edge fidelity? Close focusing distance? I think not. I think the best lens is the one that most closely matches with your natural vision.

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HT1836 - Needlessly Bracketing My Exposures

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2024/03/14

HT1836 - Needlessly Bracketing My Exposures Earlier models of digital cameras I owned missed a critically important feature - - they did not have Zebra stripes that indicated overexposure. Because that feature was missing, I always shot a three-image bracket to be sure I would end up with a useable file that has highlight detail.

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HT1835 - 400 Is Not Enough?

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/13

HT1835 - 400 Is Not Enough?My current camera has a comparatively low CIPA rating for its battery life. It will allow me only 400 shots compared to twice that in many in some full-frame cameras. Only 400? How much capacity do I actually need? Which makes me remember my view camera days and the joy of sheet film holders.

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HT1834 - Two Focus Features I Want

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/12

HT1834 - Two Focus Features I WantI suspect there aren't many camera manufacturers who regularly listen to these commentaries, but if there are here are two features I would love to see added to my camera, both of which should be fairly easy to implement.

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LW1392 - What Came Before

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2024/03/11

LW1392 - What Came BeforeI suspect it more than a few of you who have, from time to time, been tempted to try a marriage between photography and haiku. It's a fun idea, but I rarely find it convincing. Usually, it feels like competing media that are fighting each other rather than complimenting one another. There is, however, and idea that might be useful known in Japan as a Haibun. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships

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HT1833 - The Boundary Defined

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2024/03/11

HT1833 - The Boundary Defined Most pictures need an edge. Where the image meets the background, a point of delineation needs to exist in order to define what is image and what is background. A good example is an overexposed sky against the white background of the paper. All 1800+ 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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HT1832 - Mastering the Medium

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/10

HT1832 - Mastering the MediumI've never heard of photographer Gustave Le Gray, but I saw one of his mammoth plate prints at The Clark yesterday. What an unexpected response that left me impressed for all the wrong reasons. 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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HT1830 - Program Mode

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2024/03/08

HT1830 - Program Mode From my earliest days in photography, the assumption was that anything automatic would be inferior to the trained and sophisticated decisions of a skilled photographer. Manually implemented controls would result in better pictures than any automatic decisions the camera would make on its own. Is this still true?

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HT1829 - The Picture Is Not the Thing

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/07

HT1829 - The Picture Is Not the Thing The purpose of poetry is not to show off our clever use of vocabulary. It is to connect us with the dance of life. Similarly, the purpose of a photograph is not to show what the surface of world looks like, but rather to reveal the invisible. The print is not the goal; the goal is the response the view has when looking at the print.

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HT1828 - Why Black and White?

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/06

HT1828 - Why Black and White? There's a fascinating philosophical question about black and white photography that pops up from time to time. If color photography had been invented first, would there have been a need to invent black and white photography at all? Set another way, what does black and white photography provide that is denied in color photography? What is your default - - color or b/w?

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HT1827 - Beyond the Headline Heroes, Part 2

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/05

HT1827 - Beyond the Headline Heroes, Part 2 For some reason, I always seem to prefer the lesser known photographers rather than the headline heroes. I prefer the landscapes of Wynn Bullock over Ansel Adams, the portraits of Paul Strand over those of Annie Leibovitz, the daily life photographs of Josef Sudek over those of Dorothea Lange, and the reportage of Josef Koudelka over that of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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LW1391 - Letting Go Is Moving Forward

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/04

LW1391 - Letting Go Is Moving Forward In the early years of my photography life, I practiced "photography by acquisition." I gathered to me gear, knowledge, techniques, an inventory of images, and occasional accolades. As I've grown older and seen things more clearly, I've come to realize that an important part of progressing in the art life is letting go of ideas and practices that aren't productive. As futurist Alvin Toffler once said, "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who

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HT1826 - Beyond the Headline Heroes, Part 1

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/04

HT1826 - Beyond the Headline Heroes, Part 1 It's is our mission here at LensWork to publish the best photographs we can and to share that work with as many people as possible. Notice that sentence does not say, "famous or celebrity photographers." In fact, we specifically look for "ordinary folks" who are producing good work and are not plugged into the publicity machines of photography. Photography is a truly democratic art medium, but that's hard to see when so many publishers, galleries, museums

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HT1824 - White Is Not a Tone

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/02

HT1824 - White Is Not a ToneCertain subjects, snow and sand dunes immediately to mind, we describe as being "white." But there is a difference between white in nature and photographic white, a perfectly detail-less tone in a print. Photographic snow or sand dunes are actually gray, but that is the trickiest gray to achieve successfully without it looking dingy. Photographic white is not so much a tone as it is a description of visible detail.

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