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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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HT2483 - Pixels Per Meter

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/12/26

HT2483 - Pixels Per MeterI was looking at an astronomy website when it introduced me to a term and concept I'd never heard before. Describing the resolution of an image based on how close the spaceship had come to one of Saturn's orbiting moons, it said that each pixel in the photograph represented five meters worth of subject matter. I've never thought about "pixels per meter" before. I think there is some value in this idea for us terrestrial landscape photographers. Show your appreciation for

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HT2482 - Useful Photography

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2025/12/25

HT2482 - Useful PhotographyIt seems that most fine art photography tends to be decorative in nature. I love seeing a beautiful print on display in someone's home. Décor is not the only use for photography that is art. There exists an entire approach to artwork that marries the beautiful and the practical. I was in a used bookstore last fall and found a photographic bookmark tucked away in book I was looking at. This is one of the fun games I enjoy playing when I'm scouring through a used

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HT2481 - Counting Shots

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2025/12/24

HT2481 - Counting ShotsMy first 35 years in photography were deep in the roots of the analog workflow. One of the realities that was constantly at the top of my thinking was the allocation of the film I had with me and it's finite capacity. Long before I headed out on a photographic trip I had to strategize and calculate the number of shots I would need and carry with me in either sheet or roll film. Looking back on it, I now realize what an incredibly overwhelming decision this was and how that

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HT2480 - A Language I Do Not Speak

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2025/12/23

HT2480 - A Language I Do Not Speak One of the objectives of art is to communicate with others. That communication does rely, however, on a common language and vocabulary. I was thinking about this last night as I attended my first ever ballet performance — the classic holiday fare, The Nutcracker. I felt badly that this holiday classic connects so deeply with so many and simply bounced off me as I was lost in total incomprehension. I appreciated it the athleticism of the dancers, but the artistic

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HT2479 - Screen vs Print Synchronicity

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2025/12/22

HT2479 - Screen vs Print Synchronicity A source of constant frustration over the years has been the differences between what I see on my computer monitor and what I see in a print. They're never the same, no matter how hard I try to line up color management, ICC profiles, paper variations, and all the fiddly software controls at my disposal. But then it occurs to me that perfect synchronicity might be an unnecessary goal. After all, the two media are so different that perfect synchronicity is

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LW1485 - Do We Still Need a Camera?

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/12/22

LW1485 - Do We Still Need a Camera? A long-time LensWork reader asks why Brooks is not an early adopter of AI technology for making photographic artwork. 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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HT2478 - Photography As a Spiritual Practice

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2025/12/21

HT2478 - Photography As a Spiritual Practice Photography and spiritual practices would seem to be worlds apart. I'm not so sure about that. Do we need to know the photographer's foundation in order to appreciate their work? Are we aware that our appreciation of artwork is a function of our spiritual foundations? This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2400 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online. Try a 30-day membership for

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HT2477 - Your Philosophy of Photography

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2025/12/20

HT2477 - Your Philosophy of PhotographyThe mechanical, chemical, and technical aspects of photography do not need a philosophical basis as their foundation. Science is needed and perhaps a certain intuition about the processes will help us develop our craft. The aesthetic aspects of making images do employ a philosophical foundation, even if we're not aware that we do so. Why do you make pictures? Is it to share the truth? Is it to promote beauty? Is it to attain a measure of immortality through

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HT2476 - The Balance Between Doing and Finishing

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2025/12/19

HT2476 - The Balance Between Doing and FinishingThese last few months have been a particularly busy time for me photographically. I've been doing lots of work, processing images, organizing files, keywording, brainstorming ideas, getting to know the 3,500 captures I came back with from my trip to the West Coast. I've been doing a lot, but I haven't accomplished a thing. That is to say, I haven't finished anything. This exposes one of my failings as an artist; I can so easily confuse activity for

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HT2475 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor

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2025/12/18

HT2475 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SailorI suppose everyone listening to this commentary would, to one degree or another, describe themselves as "a photographer." But how we define ourselves and how that creates our self-image can be helpful or hurtful to our creative life. Self-image and the psychology behind it can be a powerful influence on how we think and what we produce. By the term "photographer" do you mean someone who makes images to be framed and displayed on the wall? Do you define

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HT2474 - Validation via Publication

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2025/12/17

HT2474 - Validation via PublicationLast spring, I had an opportunity to show some work to a new acquaintance. They were complimentary and then asked where the images had been published. I found that a curious question. When I told them the work had never been published, they expressed a visible dismissal as though without publication the work was unworthy of their attention. How and when did publication of a photograph become the high water mark of accomplishment in the eyes of the public? I found

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LW1484 - Persistence and Longevity

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2025/12/15

LW1484 - Persistence and Longevity I'm a believer in sustained effort. I know this puts me in direct conflict with today's instantaneous culture, but I'm first and foremost a pragmatist. My 50 years in photography have provided evidence over and over of the virtues of longevity. What do I mean by that? Simply this: if you stick with something long enough, good things will result. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are

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HT2472 - The YOU Who Photographs

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2025/12/15

HT2472 - The YOU Who Photographs When I go out photographing, I often begin with the sense that I need to shift mental gears from everyday thought to artmaking thought. I feel the need to begin the process of "seeing aesthetically." What does that actually mean? How is my aesthetic Self different than my ordinary self? Is it possible that my aesthetic self is simply more in touch with the rules and conventions that define the medium throughout history? If so, is it possible that "shifting gears to

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HT2471 - Predictability and Art

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2025/12/14

HT2471 - Predictability and Art Lynn and I have been watching a series on Netflix that has become totally predictable. Every plot twist, every character reaction, every conflict between characters has become so predictable that it has turned into a game for us to make such predictions as we're watching. Curiously enough, its predictability has us slowly becoming less interested. Does predictability play a role in all other art media as well? Turning this to our chosen medium, does a perfectly

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HT2470 - Enough Camera for the Purpose

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2025/12/13

HT2470 - Enough Camera for the PurposeIn my life, I've owned and used an 8x10 camera, a 5x7 camera, a medium format monorail camera, 35 mm cameras, twin lens reflex cameras, and over a dozen different digital cameras. To that list I should add a half a dozen phones that have been pretty good cameras. Isn't it interesting that when I look in my finished artwork I rarely remember anything about which cameras used? More to the point, when I go out photographing today, does it make a difference which

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HT2469 - The Doors Lit My Fire

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/12/12

HT2469 - The Doors Lit My FireMy generation, like most generations, had their own music. As a child of the '60s and '70s, I had no idea that rock and roll was following the well-established patterns that had been established for decades. I was thoroughly unaware that popular music had a 3½ minute barrier based on the recording medium of the day, 45 RPM records. When The Doors created their extended version of Light My Fire, it exploded a limitation whose ripples still affect my thinking

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HT2468 - Until Spoken Through

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2025/12/11

HT2468 - Until Spoken ThroughOne of my favorite quotes about the art life comes from Anaïs Nin who advised "Do not speak unless spoken through." This captures my philosophy of photography in its entirety. I think of myself as a conduit rather than a source; I find it useful to imagine that inanimate subjects have a way they would like to be portrayed; the task of the artist is to feel, not to preach; that photography is about listening to the whispers rather than "chasing the light." I'd rather

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HT2467 - Depreciation Happens

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2025/12/10

HT2467 - Depreciation HappensWe all know the bumper sticker wisdom that can be politely translated with the phrase "poo poo occurs." That's the sense with which I titled this commentary, Depreciation Happens. The other day I opened a box in the attic and found a Minolta Hi-Matic 9, a 35 mm camera that was originally manufactured in 1966. On eBay, if I were lucky, I might get $20 for this used piece of gear. That got me thinking about all the things I've purchased in my photographic life, not a

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HT2473 - Sorry Disney, Snow Is Not White

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2025/12/09

HT2473 - Sorry Disney, Snow Is Not White With the turn of the weather, we photographers in the northern hemisphere can start thinking about snow photography. I've always found snow to be one of the trickiest things to photograph because I think of it as being white but photographically it's not. It's bright, but bright and white are not the same thing. What makes snow look like snow are the very delicate gray tones that give pure white its three dimensionality. Snow is an example where ETTR fails

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HT2466 - Postpone or Intensify

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2025/12/09

HT2466 - Postpone or Intensify Photography has the ability to lead us to two completely different relationships with existence. We can use photography to postpone our relationship with the world, or we can use photography to intensify our relationship with what is right before us. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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