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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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...
HT2647 - New Work
Here in the 21st century, the volume of creative work that is being produced leads people inexorably to over-value the new. I don't recall anyone ever...
HT2646 - Your Very Best
Imagine for a moment that some important personage asked to see your very best work. What would you show them? Would you show them your most popular i...
HT2645 - Trust Your Gut
Yesterday I was discussing the 270 image captures of the rock walls of Capitol Reef that I photographed in 2012. I described how I only recently disco...
HT2644 - An Entirely New Vision
The creative idea might appear in an instant, or it might also require years of gestation. I was recently looking at a large collection of images and...
HT2643 - The Problem with Canned Slide Shows
Over the last 20 years, I've seen quite a number of photographic slide shows. The first was a multi-projector affair, with a musical sound track accom...
HT2642 - Compositional Sleight of Hand
Layers are one of the most powerful tools in digital processing. An often overlooked use of layers is their abilities in composition. Want to move tha...
HT2641 - Longevity
Have we arrived at a point in the history of photography where longevity is no longer a virtue? In my youth, archival processing was an important purs...
LW1509 - A Book Is More Than a Paper Thing
Words mean things. In fact, words can mean several things, several things that are quite different from one another. Take the term "book." It might me...
HT2640 - I Miss Photography
So much of what I love about photography has been replaced by something that is, well, not the same photography I first fell in love with. A great pho...
LW1508 - Your Relationship with Photography
That great literary wit Dorothy Parker is reported to have said, "I hate to write but love to have written." I suspect we can all relate to that in ou...
HT2639 - Paralyzing Success
Here is a problem I've never had before. In the last 18 months, I've had extraordinary success. I've captured 6,700 images of which I've identified a...
HT2638 - Photograph As Launch Pad
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that a photograph is a destination of a viewing process. It's as though seeing a photograph puts a period...
HT2637 - The Transcendent Moment
The term "The Decisive Moment" has been an important concept in photographic circles since Cartier-Bresson first coined it with the publication of his...
HT2636 - Release vs Publish, and Why
I was recently watching a YouTuber discuss the "release" of a new photograph he'd just finished. It evidently was time to go public with this new imag...
HT2635 - Money and Print Size
I married young, had kids young, about the same time I decided to seriously pursue fine art landscape photography. All serious landscape photographers...
HT2634 - A Physical Legacy
As a product of my generation, I've always believed that leaving a physical legacy of our artwork was important. Now that I'm on the threshold of age,...
HT2633 - Small Cameras
When I was a youngster, my grandfather gave me his Minox B so-called "spy camera." I loved this tiny wonder in spite of the difficulty getting or proc...
LW1507 - The Consciousness Barrier, The Conundrum of Art
Most photographs I see don't penetrate very deeply into my consciousness. I know they're there, I fleetingly engage them, but they don't have much pow...
HT2632 - Handheld Art Media
The world is full of media that artists can use to express themselves. Music, storytelling, dance, sculpture, poetry, pottery, painting. Has it ever o...
HT2631 - I Done Good
I sincerely hope I am not self-deluded about this, but I often find that after some months or perhaps years I look back at older images and find them...
HT2630 - Why We Are Making the Complete LensWork Digital Back Issues Collection Available for Download
We announced a few weeks ago that we have begun a long-term project to publish the entire content of the LensWork Print Editions as PDF digital back i...
HT2629 - The Myth of Accurate Color Balance
Is there truly such as thing as correct color balance? What about differences in the way individuals see? What about light sources that effect how we...
HT2628 - Photography Is a Graphic Art
Are you familiar with that book, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon? If so, you are familiar with the idea of borrowing (a more gentile word than st...
HT2627 - How the Art Is Built
Painters usually start with a sketch, a visual working-out of an idea, a practice run, an experiment. They build from the sketch to the finished paint...
HT2626 - Hyperized Photography
For each of us, there are certain kinds of photography that we love and enjoy and even produce, but other kinds of photography that is a bit of a chal...
LW1506 - The Content
Every medium has a form — movements in a symphony, chapters in a novel, image and caption in photography. These forms have to do with structure, but w...
HT2625 - Instant Emotional Bond
I once read that the goal of a framed photograph was to create an instant emotional bond with the viewer. I think there is some truth to this but then...
HT2624 - A Special Experience
Some of you have been around long enough to remember when seeing a photograph could be a truly special experience. A highlight of my photographic life...
HT2623 - PBPA - Photography By Pooping Around
Last week I attended a classical concert in which the orchestra played the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar. There's a fascinating story about how he...
HT2622 - The Secondary Market
As you can well imagine, I receive dozens of emails every day from galleries, collectors, agents, and promoters who have prints for sale. My first tho...
HT2621 - Photographers and Their Chosen Weather
Isn't it interesting how certain photographers are associated with certain kinds of weather? Michael Kenna is associated with fog. Ansel Adams is ofte...
HT2620 - The Problem with Handheld Photography
After using a view camera for decades, my later conversion to handheld photography has been quite liberating. I enjoy being free from the tripod. That...
HT2619 - A Recitation of Locations
Last fall I attended a lecture where a photographer, by projecting on a screen, shared a parade of hundred images or so with the audience. It was so c...
LW1505 - From One to Many
I'm often asked how I develop a multiple-image project. There are probably dozens of ways this could be done, but the most common way a project is bor...
HT2618 - Print as Affirmation
As we wander through life, we see something that prompts us to make a photograph. Why? That mystery requires confirmation. Did we see what we thought...