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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HT2537 - Recognizing Excellence
I attended my first workshop 40 years ago. I did so because I wanted to learn the specific techniques that were being taught by the instructors. Looki...
HT2536 - You Cannot Fake Sharpness
I'm always hesitant to say that we can't do something because there may be a way to do it that I just don't know about. To date, I have no idea how to...
HT2535 - Sitting Patiently, Waiting for the Response
One of the most challenging formats I produce is what I call "One-Picture Stories." I pull up an image and then just sit with it until an idea, a resp...
LW1493 - Six Photographs That Changed My Life
LW1493 - Six Photographs That Changed My Life
Photography, we hope, is an art medium that can have an impact on our life, add content and meanin...
HT2534 - The Criteria For Which Is Best
You found an interesting subject with interesting light and made a dozen or so captures that you hope will produce a terrific image. When you look at...
HT2533 - Congratulations On Your Photographic Skill
Do we admire Dickens for his extensive vocabulary? Do we admire Beethoven because of his chord progressions? Do we applaud the work of Ansel Adams bec...
HT2532 - Twelve Significant Photographs
I'm not sure if this assertion by Ansel Adams is apocryphal or true, but I know I've heard it my entire photographic life. "Twelve significant photogr...
HT2531 - Earth-Shaking, Mind-Blowing, Breath-Taking Photographs
Must 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 everyth...
HT2530 - Photography Is Fundamentally an Act of Sharing
A 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...
HT2529 - Processing the Goldilocks Way
Artists are often encouraged to push the boundaries. That's my philosophy when it comes to processing individual images. Simply said, I never know if...
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...
LW1492 - Media Agnostic Content
LW1492 - Media Agnostic Content
We do live in fascinating times in the history of photography. There are so many changes happening simultaneousl...
HT2527 - Master or Accomplished Hobbyist
It'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 furt...
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...
HT2525 - The Thread That Binds
The Achilles heel of multiple-image projects is the risk that viewing the work devolves into a popularity contest. Instead of looking for threads and...
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 o...
HT2523 - The True Selfie
Here 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...
HT2522 - When the Image Takes Charge
Over 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 w...
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 i...
LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art
LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art
In the Editors Comments in LensWork #173, I discussed a presentation experiment that allowed me to...
HT2520 - Fantasy or Feedback
Here'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, t...
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 jus...
HT2518 - Print-on-demand Artwork
Here'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...
HT2517 - Yesterday's Limitations
My 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 s...
HT2516 - The First One to Do It
The 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...
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 w...
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 p...
LW1490 - A Cultivated Curiosity
LW1490 - A Cultivated Curiosity
I have no doubt that I use less than 10% of what my software is capable of doing. I know there are features that...
HT2513 - Post-publication Revisions
There's a fascinating story about revisions in the great Humphrey Bogart film noir movie The Big Sleep. This has me thinking about post-production rev...
HT2512 - Vacuum Dust
A while back I shared some ideas about dealing with the dust that makes those big out of focus blobs in the sky in our images. Here's a companion idea...
HT2511 - Our Inescapable Reliance on Stuff
Just as a thought experiment, what would you do if you could no longer purchase ink for your printer? What if the three big printer manufacturers (Eps...
HT2510 - The Extremes
Like many other human activities, photography can easily evolve into an extreme sport. Will your photographs be visibly better with that 100 megapixel...
HT2509 - Where DOF Fails
A while back I did a research project looking at almost 10,000 raw captures in my Lightroom catalog. I wanted to determine what caused a failed image...
HT2508 - Mastering the Craft vs Photography
Let's talk about feelings. As I think back to all the workshops and classes that I've taken in my 50 years of photography, I can't remember a single o...
HT2507 - You Must Create Your Magnum Opus TODAY
Wouldn't it be lovely if we had a switch we could throw that would turn on our creative genius at a moment's notice? Flick goes the switch and your be...
LW1489 - Your Own Voice
LW1489 - Your Own Voice
In so many ways, we have entered a new era in photography. It's getting harder and harder to be visually unique. Google...
HT2506 - Allocating Our Precious Time
The most valuable commodity we have in our art life is not our gear, not our training, not our creative impulses, not our energy and drive. All those...
HT2505 - Buried in Lightroom
One of the most dramatic impacts of digital photography is the volume of captures that now reside on all of our hard drives. It's not uncommon at all...
HT2504 - Searching for Threads
You've set aside an hour to work on your photography and find yourself sitting at the computer looking at images. At such moments, it is so tempting t...
HT2503 - Managing Results vs Managing Work
Last year I became frustrated that I wasn't getting done as many photographic projects as I had hoped to finish. My old goal-directed business trainin...