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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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HT2531 - Earth-Shaking, Mind-Blowing, Breath-Taking...

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2026/02/12

HT2531 - Earth-Shaking, Mind-Blowing, Breath-Taking PhotographsMust we? Does every photograph have to blow our socks off in order to be worthy of our attention? Are we so addicted in our entertainment that everything must be a car chase that concludes in a massive explosion? When did art become so connected to an adrenaline rush? When did subtlety, sensitivity, a quiet connection, a moment of insight or understanding fall out of favor with artists? Not everything has to be cranked to 11. Show

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HT2530 - Photography Is Fundamentally an Act of Sharing

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2026/02/11

HT2530 - Photography Is Fundamentally an Act of SharingA case could be made that a photograph without an audience doesn't exist. Think the proverbial falling tree in the forest when no one is there to hear it. "Yes," you might say, "but I just photograph for myself." I understand because most of our photographs will never be seen by anybody but ourselves. But isn't that still fundamentally an active sharing, at least with our future selves? This seems to imply a few questions. What is it we're

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HT2529 - Processing the Goldilocks Way

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2026/02/10

HT2529 - Processing the Goldilocks WayArtists are often encouraged to push the boundaries. That's my philosophy when it comes to processing individual images. Simply said, I never know if I've gone far enough until I go too far and then come back just a bit. I apply this strategy with every step of processing from sharpening to color balance to contrast and clarity. I never know beforehand when a processing step is going to require pushing to the extremes or restraint to the extremes. Show your

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LW1492 - Media Agnostic Content

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2026/02/09

LW1492 - Media Agnostic Content We do live in fascinating times in the history of photography. There are so many changes happening simultaneously. One of the biggest changes that is rarely discussed is the increasing separation between content and its medium. In my youth, if there wasn't a print, there wasn't a photograph. The two were inexorably intertwined. Doesn't that seem quaint? All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships

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HT2528 - Made for the Purpose

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2026/02/09

HT2528 - Made for the Purpose I know of only two effective strategies that photographers use with consistency. They search for something to photograph or they manufacture something for the purpose of being photographed. I've never done the latter, but we've published quite a number of these portfolios in LensWork and they're always impressive. Find or make. Are there other options I should know about? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

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HT2527 - Master or Accomplished Hobbyist

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2026/02/08

HT2527 - Master or Accomplished HobbyistIt's been my experience that most photographers desire success in one form or another. Yes, they want to make good pictures, but for most it goes further than that. For some that means being praised by one's peers. For others, there are loftier goals. Has it ever occurred to you that most of the photographers we now think of as "masters" were accomplished hobbyists in their own time? What makes them MASTERS? This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven

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HT2526 - Different Signatures

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2026/02/07

HT2526 - Different Signatures An astute observer has noticed that I have two different signatures. I have one signature that I use for business, check writing, my non-art life. It is an attestation of identity. I have a different signature that I use to sign my artwork. It is a testament that I'm happy with the artwork as completed. I developed this strategy 40 years ago and still think it's a pretty good idea for a couple of reasons. This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a

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HT2525 - The Thread That Binds

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2026/02/06

HT2525 - The Thread That BindsThe Achilles heel of multiple-image projects is the risk that viewing the work devolves into a popularity contest. Instead of looking for threads and connections between the images, viewers search for the one image they think is the best or at least touches them deeply. Overcoming this subconscious winnowing project becomes one of the great challenges of presenting a body of work rather than a single "greatest hits" image. The best technique I know is to sort of

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HT2524 - The Connection

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2026/02/05

HT2524 - The Connection It's often said that the greatest challenge in photography is learning how to see. It's been my experience that seeing — deep seeing — is a function of connection. The great challenge of photography is not learning how to see but fostering, encouraging, developing, surrendering to, recognizing a deeper connection that engulfs us in the moment. Making a record by clicking the shutter is less important than having the connection to begin with. I think this is precisely what

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HT2523 - The True Selfie

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2026/02/04

HT2523 - The True SelfieHere is a great quote from one of my favorite anthologists: "To see ourselves we have to use a reflecting mirror — for example, art." Take a moment to think about the questions that pop up in the art life. What do I want to produce? Why do I want to produce it? Why is it important that I produce it? Why is this meaningful to me? What difficulties am I willing to endure to produce it? And these are just a few introspective questions off the top of my head! It seems that art

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HT2522 - When the Image Takes Charge

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2026/02/03

HT2522 - When the Image Takes ChargeOver the years I've noticed a curiosity that pops up from time to time. I'll have in my mind's eye an idea of what I want an image to look like, but when I start processing it imposes an alternative I'd never thought about. Novelists will talk about their fictional character taking on a momentum of its own. I think the same thing can happen with photographs. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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HT2521 - Aging Issues

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2026/02/02

HT2521 - Aging Issues These days, amongst my peers anyway, there's no question that the most frequent topics of discussion have to do with aging. Time, mobility, eyesight issues, dispersal of our life's output, downsizing from a life of acquisition. There's a lot to think about as we creep closer and closer to taking up our permanent residence in the ink maintenance tank — or as Ansel Adams used to put it, "the final wash." Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily

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LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art

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2026/02/02

LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art In the Editors Comments in LensWork #173, I discussed a presentation experiment that allowed me to exhibit a multi-image project on the wall using poster hangers. I just changed the presentation to a different project and that has me thinking about a few things I'm observed since the initial installation. I've been observing people's reaction to this type of presentation and discovered a couple of interesting and unexpected things about how people

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HT2520 - Fantasy or Feedback

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2026/02/01

HT2520 - Fantasy or FeedbackHere's a creative challenge that can be a lot of fun. Let's assume that every image in your Lightroom catalog was captured because you, at the time, thought it would make great photograph. That implies that you could choose any capture at random from your catalog and make a good image from it. Can you? Pick an image at random and push yourself to turn it into something interesting with aggressive or perhaps unusual processing. The goal is not to create interesting

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HT2519 - Stretching the Image

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2026/01/31

HT2519 - Stretching the Image What do you do if, after cropping an image, it no longer fits the aspect ratio of all the other images in your presentation? Do you let that image just be different than all the others or do you re-crop it within the aspect ratio to preserve consistency? There is a third option I've never considered, but it's recently come to my attention and I'm not sure how I feel about it. That third technique is to stretch the pixels to fit the frame, also known as non-proportional

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HT2518 - Print-on-demand Artwork

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2026/01/30

HT2518 - Print-on-demand ArtworkHere's an idea that's been floating around photographic circles for the last 25 years or so. What if we were to publish our finished digital files in a way that allowed consumers to print our work on their own printers, with or without a purchase agreement to do so? What would we lose by allowing them to do so? What would we gain by allowing them to do so? I find this a scary idea, but I'm not sure why I feel that way other than the habitual assumption about

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HT2517 - Yesterday's Limitations

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2026/01/29

HT2517 - Yesterday's LimitationsMy first digital captures were made with an 6 megapixel camera that had a tiny sensor. They were primitive, noisy even at its base ISO, and fell far short of what I could produce with my film camera. Nonetheless, I kept those image files just in case future software improvements might make them useable. I was right to do so. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2516 - The First One to Do It

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2026/01/28

HT2516 - The First One to Do ItThe history of photography is filled with people who didn't make the best but who did make it first. Matthew Brady wasn't the best war photographer in history but he was the first. William Henry Jackson is not the best landscape photographer ever, but he was one of the first. Other examples abound. This implies a not so subtle premise that is easy to be seduced by in our creative efforts — be first or be forgotten. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast

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HT2515 - Vintage Prints

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2026/01/27

HT2515 - Vintage Prints I don't understand the fuss and value that is place on original prints in photography. In fact, it seems perfectly obvious to me that an early print would be the result of less reliable instant aesthetic decisions. There is not a single example I can recall from my 50 years in photography where a later print wasn't better than an earlier one. I know more about how to print the negative or process the digital file; my artistic sensitivities have matured with age and

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HT2514 - They Are Not All Winners

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2026/01/26

HT2514 - They Are Not All Winners Some of what we produce doesn't wear well over time. Nothing we produce connects with everyone who sees it. This is precisely why there is virtue in producing a lot of work in the nature of an anthology. It not only keeps your creative juices flowing, but also provides your audience a better chance of finding something with which they can connect deeply. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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