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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HT2682 - No One Cares How Hard You Worked
Of course you worked hard to make that wonderful photograph! It takes time, energy, money, effort, and even sacrifice to make a photograph. Unfortunat...
HT2681 - Making Art Is Picking and Choosing
Nothing damages a project so thoroughly as trying to say too much. It's far better to say a small thing well rather than a huge thing poorly. This is...
LW1513 - Small Prints
LW1513 - Small Prints
Making giant prints is expensive, complicated, and requires lots of room to produce and store. And then there is the cost...
HT2680 - The Rain on Our Parade
I received an email from an important gallery that was offering a number of reasonably well-known Ansel Adams images for sale. Most of them were price...
HT2679 - Treatment Based on the Project
Not too long ago, if you'd asked me what kind of photographer I was, I'd have said black and white—that's literally all I did back then. But digital p...
HT2678 - Limiting Your Choices
You are serious about your photography, so you probably have a pretty reasonable kit of gear that covers almost anything you might want to shoot. Grea...
HT2677 - Obviously, This Is Not Good
Has this ever happened to you? I was watching a YouTube tutorial on a software feature when the speaker showed a "before" and "after" version of an im...
HT2676 - Within the First Half Dozen
I watched a fascinating interview of Sting by Rick Beato on YouTube. Sting said that he loses interest in a song if there isn't a surprise in the firs...
HT2675 - Photograph as Memory Trigger
A friend recently lamented that she was going through her lifetime of pictures and questioning why she ought to keep all the vacation images of landsc...
HT2674 - Is It Enough to Be Technically Good?
I remember a time when producing a technically accomplished photograph was enough to earn applause. I have many. I would now be embarrassed to show th...
LW1512 - The Box of One Hundred
LW1512 - The Box of One Hundred
I wish I'd heard of this idea years ago. Each of us has an idea of the best 100 images of our art career. Make a...
HT2673 - The Invisible That Is Right In Front of Us
Why is it so difficult to make a personally expressive image in Yosemite? Why do we keep photographing sunsets ad nauseam? Why can't we see the yogurt...
HT2672 - Decor Photography and Art Photography
The other day I completed a beautiful photograph. Seriously, simply gorgeous. A stunning landscape, magical light, vibrant colors, engaging compositio...
HT2671 - Flung to the Far Unknown
Sending our artwork out into the world can be a dicey proposition. We lose control of its fate. Who knows if it will survive or where it will survive....
HT2670 - The Dangers of Surrendering Control
Software and AI are also providing us with tremendous tools. At the same time, there is a risk of allowing them to make aesthetic decisions for us. Th...
HT2669 - Photographic Artwork
Isn't that an odd term? Do we refer to painting as "oil on canvas artwork?" Or sculpture as "carved marble artwork?" Is poetry referred to as "verbal...
HT2668 - Pretty On the Brain
I remember once a photographer said to me that "Ansel Adams was the Helmut Newton of the landscape." I understand what they were getting at and I'm no...
HT2667 - The Grand Illusion of Art
One of the supposed virtues of artmaking is that our art becomes a vehicle of immortality. I'm not so sure. Testament, yes. Immortality? Not a chance....
LW1511 - Ignored, But Possibly a Treasure
LW1511 - Ignored, But Possibly a Treasure
When I photographed in China in 2009, I assumed that the exotic landscape would create exotic pictures...
HT2666 - The Wider the Focal Length
Boy, I'm going to stick my neck out with this one. As a general rule of thumb, the shorter the focal length of your lens, the less personal the result...
HT2665 - Recovering Shadows Is Easier Than Recovering Highlights
When determining exposure, especially in high-contrast scenes, we often need to bias our settings to protect either the shadows or the highlights. Wit...
HT2664 - Our Attachment to Stuff
In the early 1980s, I fumbled a lens swap and dropped an expensive view camera lens into the Pacific Ocean. I grieved then and still grieve to this da...
HT2663 - How Each Image Contributes
Although they are both forms of music, listening to a piano recital is a completely different experience than listening to a fully orchestrated sympho...
HT2662 - One Grain of Sand
It's difficult to admire one grain of sand while we are standing on the beach. I offer this as a metaphor for photography today. You and I sweat bulle...
HT2661 - Images That Changed My Life
Knowing my love for photography, a non-photographer friend of mine recently asked if there were images that literally changed my life. I fumbled an an...
LW1510 - Deeper Questions
LW1510 - Deeper Questions
It seems to me that the fundamental aspect of viewing art is inquiry. Every work of art is a mystery until we start as...
HT2660 - The Drama of Good vs Evil
Can you think of an artistic expression that doesn't involve, in some way, the drama of good versus evil, innocence versus the diabolical, the weak vs...
HT2659 - Perfection or Enthusiasm
Deep in the heart of an artist is the pursuit of perfection. It goes with the territory. Creating artwork is the one thing we do in our life without r...
HT2658 - Seducing The Eye of the Beholder
Said another way, a way that can bypass the numb response to a cliché, art appreciation is an act of free will. Extending that thought even further, p...
HT2657 - Guiding Their Consumption
I know, that's sort of an odd title for this thought, but there's an important issue that demands our attention. Imagine you want to assemble sizable...
HT2656 - Big Things Are Made from Little Things
One of the great lessons from my dad who was also my coach, is an approach to making progress. He used to say that "inch by inch is a cinch, yard by y...
HT2655 - Do It Again and Again and Again
The difference between a hobbyist and a professional is that a hobbyist practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't g...
HT2654 - Those Delicate Highlights
I remember a workshop instructor once suggesting that photographs live in Zone VIII. I'm not sure a definitive statement like this is universally accu...
Remembering Duane Michals
As a remembrance of Michal's life and work, we're taking a hiatus today from our regular podcast to bring you two archive audios of Duane Michals, rec...
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HT2653 - There Are No Bad Lenses, There Are No Perfect Lenses
The other day I was working on some images in Lightroom and realized that one of them was a fantastically sharp image that I had made with a notorious...
HT2652 - A Grand Slam Home Run
If you are a baseball fan like I am, you know what a thrill it is when your team hits a grand slam. A true baseball fan, however, knows that the occas...
HT2651 - Processing Delta
In mathematics and statistics, delta is the measure of change. Strangely enough, I find this a useful concept in processing my photographic artwork. W...
HT2650 - The Question Answered by the Caption
First, let's admit that not every photograph needs a caption. If a photograph does need a caption, it can be useful to consider the question the capti...
HT2649 - Overwhelming Beauty
Sometimes I really struggle as a landscape photographer. When the scene is overwhelmingly beautiful, one would think that making a successful photogra...
HT2648 - One Hundred Compositions
Let's say you find yourself in a fascinatingly photogenic location and decide to work it intensely. We've all had this experience at one time or anoth...