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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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...
HT2502 - Believability vs Truthfulness
The other day I was looking at some of the photo essays done by W. Eugene Smith and published in Life magazine. They're fantastic examples of the inte...
HT2501 - Playing Guitar or Making Music
I recently heard a reviewer say of a musician that he didn't play the guitar, he made music. Boy, does that sum up so much about any medium that is th...
HT2500 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500
I hope you won't mind if I take just a few moments to say thank you and to celebrate this, our 2,500th Here's a Thought commentary, over 6 years of da...
LW1488 - Heres a Thought Number 2,500
LW1488 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500
I hope you won't mind if I take just a few moments to say thank you and to celebrate this, our 2,500th He...
HT2499 - Photographers and Commerce
What percentage of people who bowl aspire to become professional bowlers? What percentage of people who enjoy cooking dinner dream of open a restauran...
HT2498 - The Natural Look
Like I often do with my morning coffee, this morning I watched a few YouTube videos on processing in Lightroom. I've learned a lot from these people,...
HT2497 - The Unhealthy Pursuit of Perfection
We've been watching a television series in which one of the main characters is constantly getting herself in trouble by pursuing perfection. She then...
HT2496 - Transportation and Photography
With very few exceptions, my photography is thoroughly dependent on my ability to transport myself from one location to another. The only time I don't...
HT2495 - Wishing For More
A large part of the production of fine art photographs involves a frustration that we wish our images were better. We'd like them to be more. The impl...
HT2494 - Bridging the Gap Between Life and Fiction
I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of media in our generation and the growth of fiction. Most of what we see on television is a fiction, v...
HT2493 - More on Observation vs Project
Yesterday I was talking about how we might describe what we photographers actually do. Is the core of our activities that we build something or is it...
LW1487 - The Photography I Love
LW1487 - The Photography I Love
Aesthetic conventions come and go. Culture and popular tastes are constantly changing. Example: There are no rad...
HT2492 - Observation or Project
Terminology is such an interesting thing. For some time now, I've used the term "project" as the nomenclature for something produced with multiple ima...
HT2491 - Craft Becomes Obsolete, Art Does Not
I'm not sure the title of this commentary is actually true, but it does point to a thought that can be helpful. In essence, how we make pictures is co...
HT2490 - The Competition for Attention
Here, deep in the age of media, doesn't it seem obvious that there is a raging and ever-present contest for our attention. Consider the next hour of l...
HT2489 - Processing for the Medium
There now exist so many different media we can choose for the output of our photographs. These choices imply that we need to process our images with t...
HT2488 - If You Can See It, Too
Over the years, I've talked a lot about using a camera like a Xerox copy machine. If your photograph shows me what I would have seen had I been standi...
HT2487 - Solving a Non-Existing Problem
I can't blame camera manufacturers for wanting to call our attention to their new features. However, it's amazing how many times the new features they...
HT2486 - Creativity on Demand
Here we are in that week between the Christmas and New Year holidays when a lot of people take time off from work for a few personal days. For years,...
LW1486 - Alternative Aesthetics
LW1486 - Alternative Aesthetics
Photography has a natural aesthetic we might call photographic realism. The typical photograph is intended to mi...
HT2485 - One Lens to Rule Them All
Clearly I'm not the only photographer who has dreamed of a single lens that would do everything I need. The popularity of so-called "superzoom" lenses...
HT2484 - Sometimes the Meaning Requires Time
During one of the first Christmas holidays after my divorce in the late 1980s, I drove over to Eastern Oregon on Christmas Day for a little photograph...
HT2483 - Pixels Per Meter
I 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...
HT2482 - Useful Photography
It 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 t...
HT2481 - Counting Shots
My 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...
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...
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...
LW1485 - Do We Still Need a Camera?
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...
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 ord...
HT2477 - Your Philosophy of Photography
The mechanical, chemical, and technical aspects of photography do not need a philosophical basis as their foundation. Science is needed and perhaps a...
HT2476 - The Balance Between Doing and Finishing
These last few months have been a particularly busy time for me photographically. I've been doing lots of work, processing images, organizing files, k...
HT2475 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
I suppose everyone listening to this commentary would, to one degree or another, describe themselves as "a photographer." But how we define ourselves...