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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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LW1391 - Letting Go Is Moving Forward

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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

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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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HT1831 - Cyan Skies

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/02

HT1831 - Cyan Skies As a photographer, I know embarrassing little about color science. I do know that a cyan sky is just wrong. That has led me to use profiles as a better starting point.

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HT1823 - The Soft Blacks of Matte Paper

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/03/01

HT1823 - The Soft Blacks of Matte Paper Matte inkjet paper, like the paper used for platinum/palladium printing, has a lovely surface but cannot produce very deep black tones. Measured with a densitometer, the black of matte paper will typically top out at about 1.5, whereas glossy paper can easily reach a density of 2.2. Our eyes magically adjust for this difference, and thank goodness they do.

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HT1822 - The Lovely and Awful Panorama Format

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/02/29

HT1822 - The Lovely and Awful Panorama FormatSome of my favorite work from the last dozen years have been extreme form panorama format images. Think aspect ratios of 8:1 or greater. For example, I have an image of Capitol Reef that is 8 ft long and 12 in tall. I love the image, and it's such an interesting thing to view on the wall here at the house. But framing such beasts is absurdly expensive and publishing such images is simply impossible.

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HT1821 - Just Not Feeling It

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2024/02/28

HT1821 - Just Not Feeling ItI find it difficult to separate similar excuses for not wanting to photograph. Sometimes I think I'm just not feeling it, and my motivation wanes. That's often confused, however, with my inner sloth, when I just don't feel like gearing up and doing the work that's necessary. Why do I assume that art making is only possible when energetic enthusiasm drives it?

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HT1820 - What Is Not Photographed

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/02/27

HT1820 - What Is Not Photographed Sometimes I become so focused on the subject I've selected to photograph that I completely miss great opportunities that are right in front of me. Developing an awareness of what could become a small photographic story is part of the creative process challenge.

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LW1390 - Gear, Part 3, Gear Guilt

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/02/26

LW1390 - Gear, Part 3, Gear Guilt I have an uncomfortable relationship with photographic gear. I have some gear that looks great, implies that I'm a serious photographer, has basic and exotic capabilities, and makes me feel, when using it, like I'm a serious photographer. And then I have gear that has none of the above characteristics but just makes great pictures. When it comes to making serious art, why do I feel slightly guilty if I'm not using a "serious" camera? Where did I pick up that myth

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HT1819 - Slow Shutter Speeds Handheld

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2024/02/26

HT1819 - Slow Shutter Speeds Handheld We are so lucky today to live in the age of image stabilized cameras. We can shoot handheld at amazingly long shutter speeds, at least compared to yesteryear. That said, it's not perfect, not every shot, and that leads to a strategy. Whenever I'm pushing a slow shutter speed, I simply shoot a bunch of exposures, often using burst mode. I don't care if 19 of the 20 exposures are slightly soft due to camera movement, as long as one of them is luckily sharp enough

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HT1818 - Where to Go

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2024/02/25

HT1818 - Where to Go I have no doubt that their intentions are well meant, but advice from others on where we ought to go in order to make great photographs Is universally bad advice. It's not that good photographs can't be made there, wherever it is, but rather that such places are usually the source of innumerable clichés. I much prefer to just follow my own nose, discover my own locations, interpret the world as I see it, which I've been doing now for 50 years without ever being disappointed no

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HT1817 - Not Quite Perfect

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2024/02/24

HT1817 - Not Quite Perfect If we could wave a magic wand and achieve perfection, we probably would. Not having such a magic wand, we must accept that our images will fall short of that goal. How far from perfect is still acceptable? I ask this as a serious question. For example, how far from perfection are you willing to accept focus, tones, composition, noise, color accuracy, or the rendition of detail? To be even more practical, how much corner softness are you willing to accept in a lens?

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HT1816 - Not Medium, but Media, Plural

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/02/23

HT1816 - Not Medium, but Media, Plural Not that long ago, photography was primarily produced in one medium, the print. Today there are at least a dozen media we can use to produce and share our images. This provides us with both unprecedented challenges and almost limitless opportunities.

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HT1815 - Learning by Looking and Listening

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2024/02/15

HT1815 - Learning by Looking and Listening A major turning point in my photographic life began when I started attending workshops. You might think that the most valuable part of a workshop is having your own work critiqued by those who are more talented than you. That's important, but the best part for me was listening to the workshop instructors talk about their images. Every image included a tidbit that I absorbed for use in my own learning curve. This is precisely why I do the series "Every

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