LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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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 ph...
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HT2732 - Time to Get Off the Stage
Here's a Thought… #2732 with Brooks Jensen
I'm a baby boomer. My generation invented rock and roll music. I'm vicariously proud of that. I must...
HT2731 - Universal Stories
Here's a Thought… #2731 with Brooks Jensen
Photographs, by their very nature, are specific. They capture a view of a specific place at a specifi...
HT2730 - Bombs and Bosoms
Here's a Thought… #2730 with Brooks Jensen
There exists a trend in current photography that I struggle with. That trend is the exaggeration of r...
LW1520 - The Big, Big Problem of Repetition
LW1520 - The Big, Big Problem of Repetition
I've been doing multiple image projects now for 45 years and reviewing submissions to LensWork for 3...
HT2729 - A Library of Skies
Here's a Thought… #2729 with Brooks Jensen
How do you feel about the Sky Replacement tool in Photoshop? Is it a cheat, or a solution? Or, maybe...
HT2728 - The Last Time
Here's a Thought… #2728 with Brooks Jensen
In her final weeks, a theme that Maureen revisited time and time again was the idea that we never kno...
HT2727 - Unknown RAW Files
Here's a Thought… #2727 with Brooks Jensen
A fairly common experience I have when I return from an extensive and productive trip are captures of...
HT2726 - Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Artwork?
Here's a Thought… #2726 with Brooks Jensen
Does anyone need artwork to survive? I suspect not. On the other hand, I struggle to imagine a life w...
HT2725 - One by One, We Are Losing Our Masters
Here's a Thought… #2725 with Brooks Jensen
We just lost another of our great photographic teachers/masters. Jay Maisel passed away on August 20?...
HT2724 - Audience Indifference
Here's a Thought… #2724 with Brooks Jensen
A painful truth is that no one cares about my artwork. Don't feel smug; no one cares about your work...
HT2723 - Books and Digital Publications
Here's a Thought… #2723 with Brooks Jensen
The first half of the20th century was the era of original prints. It appears that the first half of t...
LW1519 - Those Who Touch Us Deeply
If we are lucky, our art life is filled with people with whom we connect deeply through their artwork. For example, I love Caravaggio, but not that cr...
HT2722 - The Density of the Detail
Here's a Thought… #2722 with Brooks Jensen
Assume an image has a definable amount of detail we'll call X. Take that detail and make a small prin...
HT2721 - The Future of Photography
Here's a Thought… #2721 with Brooks Jensen
He said, "It's a fantastic camera. It does everything for me." I responded, "Too bad it doesn't autom...
HT2720 - Purposely Off
Here's a Thought… #2720 with Brooks Jensen
Awhile back, I made a landscape image in which I desaturated the naturally bright blue sky to an emot...
HT2719 - Blade Runner and Puccini's Butterfly
Here's a Thought… #2719 with Brooks Jensen
Do you ever go back and revise a previously finished image or project? I don't. Maybe I should. Somet...
HT2718 - Accessory Fever
Here's a Thought… #2718 with Brooks Jensen
I cringe when I think about all the money I've spent on accessories that sounded like a great solutio...
HT2717 - Too Many Notes, Words, Images
Here's a Thought… #2717 with Brooks Jensen
I've often said that this is the best time in the history of photography to be a photographer. There...
HT2716 - Fun Is a Medicine
Here's a Thought… #2716 with Brooks Jensen
I assume that all of you listening to these commentaries take your photography pretty seriously. You...
LW1518 - The Hard Work of Being an Artist
LW1518 - The Hard Work of Being an Artist
The minute we pick up a camera and decide we want to make pictures more meaningful than snapshots, we...
HT2715 - The Power of Titles
Here's a Thought… #2715 with Brooks Jensen
Titles have such power to steer the viewer in directions we intend. I've often used the example of Do...
HT2714 - To Know a Photographer
Here's a Thought… #2714 with Brooks Jensen
There are so many photographers I think I know because one of their images has become important to me...
HT2713 - An Excuse to Explore the World
Here's a Thought… #2713 with Brooks Jensen
I'm pretty convinced that I don't need to add any more images to my Lightroom assets. I have enough R...
HT2712 - Why the Sharpest Lenses
Here's a Thought… #2712 with Brooks Jensen
I've always thought that spending money on the best lenses made more sense than expensive cameras. A...
HT2711 - One Kind of Photography
Here's a Thought… #2711 with Brooks Jensen
You know that old business about what books you would want with you on a desert island? Just for fun,...
HT2710 - Your Best Is Often the Least Important
Here's a Thought… #2710 with Brooks Jensen
An over-emphasized component of fine art photography is the assumption that "making stone-cold winner...
LW1517 - Why Make Art
LW1517 - Why Make Art
I don't want to sound morbid or fatalistic, but we are all headed for the ink maintenance tank at some point in the future...
HT2709 - The Return to Film
Here's a Thought… #2709 with Brooks Jensen
I think I understand why some photographers are returning to film and analog photography. There is a...
HT2708 - Better Than I Remembered
Here's a Thought… #2708 with Brooks Jensen
With some frequency now, I find that as I look back at my older unprinted archives, I'll stumble upon...
HT2707 - Blind Spots and Habits
Here's a Thought… #2707 with Brooks Jensen
Now that I've been photographing for decades, there are some subjects and trends that have become mor...
HT2706 - The Intersection of Sensitivity and Moment
Here's a Thought… #2706 with Brooks Jensen
Every waking moment is an opportunity to make a photograph — but we don't. Moments don't ris...
HT2705 - Abundance Can Be a Curse
I had a couple of weeks last fall to photograph in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado. The weather was perfect, the fall colors at their peak...
HT2704 - A Photographic 2-Minute Drill
There is a situational strategy in football when the time runs short. It's called the "2-minute drill." Its essence is accomplishing a lot in very sho...
HT2703 - Internalizing the Scene
I assume that all of you are aware of the idea that a camera is a mirror, that every picture we make is a reflection of who we are. There is a kernel...
HT2702 - When a Group Ceases to Be a Group
One of the interesting things about a multiple image project is how the viewer assembles the collective idea that binds the images into a unified expr...
LW1516 - Beyond the Rectangle
LW1516 - Beyond the Rectangle
We photographers have quadrilaterals on the brain. Why? The world is not quadrilateral. Why not compose in circles...
HT2701 - A Personal Pile
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. I have a "personal pile" of prints that I rarely (often never) share with anyone. They are not embarrassing, no...
HT2700 - Small Bites
I wish my brain worked in a continuous straight line, but it doesn't. I bounce from idea to idea. For years I've fought this by trying to be creative...
HT2699 - The Creative Life Is a Daily Habit
Here's a Thought… #2699 with Brooks Jensen
It's almost a cliché to suggest that a creative life is a daily thing. The truth is that it's...
HT2698 - My Favorite Features of Digital Processing
It seems that with digital processing we can do anything — and do it, if need be, at the pixel level. I find, however that there are a few tools that...