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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HT2470 - Enough Camera for the Purpose
In my life, I've owned and used an 8x10 camera, a 5x7 camera, a medium format monorail camera, 35 mm cameras, twin lens reflex cameras, and over a doz...
HT2469 - The Doors Lit My Fire
My generation, like most generations, had their own music. As a child of the '60s and '70s, I had no idea that rock and roll was following the well-es...
HT2468 - Until Spoken Through
One of my favorite quotes about the art life comes from Anaïs Nin who advised "Do not speak unless spoken through." This captures my philosophy of pho...
HT2467 - Depreciation Happens
We all know the bumper sticker wisdom that can be politely translated with the phrase "poo poo occurs." That's the sense with which I titled this comm...
HT2466 - Postpone or Intensify
Photography has the ability to lead us to two completely different relationships with existence. We can use photography to postpone our relationship w...
HT2465 - Rotating Batteries
Here's one of those dumb little practical ideas that can be so useful. It has to do with using multiple batteries and amortizing the wear and tear on...
LW1483 - Some Thoughts on Inventing Our Own Medium
LW1483 - Some Thoughts on Inventing Our Own Medium
At its most fundamental and simple terms, artmaking something that expresses something. Notic...
HT2464 - A Most Welcome Winter Photography Tool
Perhaps you've heard the advice, "There is no bad weather, there is only bad clothing." When I woke up this morning, it was -2° F outside. For reasons...
HT2463 - The Responsibilities of Owning Artwork
I had a water leak that dripped into a couple of portfolio cases where I housed artwork from other photographers. I lost 13 pieces of wonderful work t...
HT2462 - My New Phone Has Adaptive Display
My old phone finally gave up the ghost when its battery wouldn't hold a charge anymore. So off to the phone store and a new phone, and that sizable pr...
HT2461 - Variations on a Theme
I'm a fan of Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano compositions. I was not aware, however, until last night, of a composition he wrote titled Variations on a Th...
HT2460 - With the Passage of Time
I'm certainly not the only photographer who looks back at their earlier work and feels a sense of embarrassment. What was I thinking? Of all the negat...
HT2459 - AI and the Ideal
When we say that one photograph is better than another, how do we arrive at that conclusion? When we are processing our images, what is the criteria w...
HT2458 - Every Capture Is a Teacher
The core of artmaking is the twin fusion of learning and producing. It's easy to see that if there is no producing there is no artwork. It's not so ob...
LW1482 - The Importance of Momentum
LW1482 - The Importance of Momentum
Borrowing a phrase from Carl Chiarenza and his book, Pictures Come from Pictures, I'd like to propose that "...
HT2457 - One of One
In 1989, I commissioned a metal shop expert to create an adapter for my Arca Swiss monorail view camera that would allow me to use Polaroid 3¼ by 4¼ f...
HT2456 - The Most Memorable Photographs of our Age
Time has a way of filtering out the unimportant. Think back 500 years ago. We don't remember local politics, but we do remember the great art from tha...
HT2455 - To Prime or Not to Prime
There is no question that prime lenses have a reputation for being superior in comparison to zoom lenses. The most expensive lenses are often the very...
HT2454 - Decisions vs Execution
Art making is the fusion of decisions and execution. It's not at all uncommon for photographers to explain that they became a photographer because the...
HT2453 - From My Distant Past
Twice now in the last few months, I've received a kind-hearted compliment about one of my pictures — in both cases, however, from images I made more t...
HT2452 - Photographing Is Not the Same Thing As Making Art
I have 200,000 digital captures in my Lightroom catalog. Does that mean I have 200,000 pieces of artwork? Of course not. So I ask you, precisely, at w...
HT2451 - Knowing When to Stop
I think I'm remembering this correctly that it was Pablo Picasso who said the trick and painting is knowing when to stop. Obviously, the same sentimen...
LW1481 - Every Picture Is a Compromise
LW1481 - Every Picture Is a Compromise
I think I'm remembering this correctly that it was Pablo Picasso who said the trick and painting is knowi...
HT2450 - Pepper Number Twenty-Nine
Edward Weston's famous photograph, Pepper #30, has always intrigued me. It's a beautiful image, but to be honest I'm less fascinated with the image it...
HT2449 - Bonus Images
I'll bet that most of you, from time to time, watch the bonus features after you've finished watching the movie. Or perhaps you watch the director's c...
HT2448 - Each Project Has Its Own Aesthetic
How many different genres of music are there? Beyond that, each song has its own mood. Beyond that, the same song can be performed in different ways....
HT2447 - Zines vs Chapbooks
A couple of days ago, I received three "zines" in the mail that came from a LensWork reader. They were lovely and I enjoyed her photography a great de...
HT2446 - Caravaggio Ignored His Eyes
Caravaggio, the Italian painter from the 16th century, is well known for his use of a technique called "foreshortening." Today we would call it " focu...
HT2445 - To Increase Sharpness, Move the Sun
Yes, lens sharpness, stabilization techniques, and resolution all add to build a sharp image. As a pragmatic photographer, however, I can't help but o...
HT2437 - What I Hope to Accomplish with These Thoughts
I've thought for years that photographers often think about tones exactly backwards. There are lots of photographic gurus who preach that we must pay...
LW1480 - Art and Story
LW1480 - Art and Story
Art, as an inanimate object, doesn't do anything, Art doesn't do, it tells — it tells us about some thing, some place, so...
HT2443 - Color by the Truckload
If there is a photographic aesthetic that defines the early years of the 20th century it will undoubtedly be the fine art black and white print. We ar...
HT2442 - Limitations
Money is limited. Time is limited. Access is limited. Equipment is limited. Techniques are limited. It's a wonder we can get anything done with all th...
HT2441 - No One Will Ever See It
The often insurmountable distance from production to consumption. Rick Beato has a YouTube channel all about contemporary music. It's surprising how m...
HT2440 - Bit Rot Might Be Destroying Your Backups
Have you heard of a thing called bit rot? I hadn't either, but it turns out it can be slowly leading your backups to failure. And speaking of backups,...
HT2439 - The Space That Supports Your Work
Once I had seriously committed myself to photography in the 1970s, I didn't fully realize the implications that would govern my choices of living spac...
HT2438 - Fall Fog Season
I know so many photographers who get excited about the fall season and all those wonderful colored hillsides of orange and yellow keaves. For me, fall...
HT2437 - What I Hope to Accomplish with These Thoughts
One of the criticisms I have about a lot of workshop instructors is that their basic premise is to persuade and motivate the participants to do photog...
LW1479 - Photography Lessons from Japanese Woodblock Prints
LW1479 - Photography Lessons from Japanese Woodblock Prints
I've been an admirer of Japanese woodblock prints (known as ukiyo-e) for quite some...
HT2436 - The Second and Third Layer of Comprehensiond
How much time does it take to fully understand a photograph? Of course, there is no single answer for the simple reason that photographs are so varied...