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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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HT2744 - Long-Forgotten Books
Here's a Thought… #2744 with Brooks Jensen
Perhaps it's understandable that as a publisher I have a fond relationship with books. I weep over th...
LW1522 - Spray and Pray and AI
Episode #1522 from our long-running, weekly podcast
On Photography and the Creative Process
If you want to insult a photographer, accuse...
HT2743 - The Assumption of Effort
Here's a Thought… #2743 with Brooks Jensen
When we see any accomplished artistic expression — regardless of the medium — we naturally assume tha...
HT2742 - Dappled Light
Here's a Thought… #2742 with Brooks Jensen
One of my favorite things to photograph is the dappled light that sneaks through the trees to create...
HT2741 - Looking for Photographs
Here's a Thought… #2741 with Brooks Jensen
One of the great mistakes of my youth was the assumption that going out with my camera was, at its es...
ftp-361 Finding the Sensually Tactile
Here's a Thought… #2740 with Brooks Jensen
I suppose we've all made stupendously ridiculous mistakes in our creative lives. Please tell me I'm n...
HT2739 - Your Basic Lens
Here's a Thought… #2739 with Brooks Jensen
My first camera was a 35mm SLR. I was advised to use a 50mm lens because that would most closely matc...
HT2738 - Your Minimal Kit
Here's a Thought… #2738 with Brooks Jensen
What is the least amount of gear you can get by with? This is an important question if you are travel...
HT2737 - The Crack of Dawn
Here's a Thought… #2737 with Brooks Jensen
All my photographic life I've heard landscape photographers preach the virtues of the early risers. S...
LW1521 - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
I'm proud of the fact that so many photographers tell me that appearing in LensWork is on their bucket list. I'm equally disheartened when so many pho...
HT2736 - Score and Performance, Again
Here's a Thought… #2736 with Brooks Jensen
Ansel Adams famously suggested that the negative was the score and the print the performance. Is this...
HT2735 - Losing Faith in Photographic Truth
Here's a Thought… #2735 with Brooks Jensen
With increasing frequency, I find myself looking at a photograph and immediately questioning its vera...
HT2734 - Actions of the Creative Process
Here's a Thought… #2734 with Brooks Jensen
There is a lot of buzz about "Creativity" in artistic pursuits. Books are prevalent; YouTube videos a...
HT2733 - A Box With One of Ones
Here's a Thought… #2733 with Brooks Jensen
I recently ran across a box of prints from 1989 I'd almost forgotten about. That is to say, I remembe...
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...