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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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...
HT2617 - Battling with the Real World
The problem with photography from a creative medium point of view is that it too successfully allows us to make pictures that show what the world look...
HT2616 - My Serious Camera
A troubling mindset that I have difficulty discarding is that I think of my gear as either serious or, well, not. With my serious camera, I work more...
HT2615 - Beyond Place or Moment
You may recall my Editor's Comments in LensWork #173, Projects as Wall Art. I have another observation about this that I missed until recently. An ima...
HT2614 - What You Should Do
Perhaps there is no deadlier advice from a workshop instructor, mentor, or master photographer, than their statement about what you should do with you...
HT2613 - My Favorite Lightroom Tool Is...
I haven't counted, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn there's about a gazillion tools in Lightroom that can help us refine and finesse our images. S...
HT2612 - Photography and the Visual Arts
One of the biggest mistakes of my youth was focusing my efforts exclusively on photography and ignoring the other visual arts. By defining myself so n...
LW1504 - Photo Groups
I miss the dialogue of a group. An incredibly important part of my personal growth as a photographer came as the result of my participation in a group...
HT2611 - My Medium Is Better Than Yours
The word "photography" is an umbrella term that includes dozens of different means of manifestation and distribution of an image. From daguerreotypes...
HT2610 - There Will Always Be One More Tweak
Pablo Picasso famously said that the trick in painting is knowing when to stop. I think this is true in photography as well. There will always be one...
HT2609 - Creativity Is a Private, Personal Thing
Maybe I'm just stubbornly resistant, but I find I simply cannot get excited about suggestions from other people about what I should photograph or how...
HT2608 - Embracing the Pause
I've learned over the years that I can't be creative all the time. I used to feel guilty about the pause between creative outbursts. I eventually came...
HT2607 - Better by What Standards
With today's powerful digital processing, we can easily remove any element of a captured image. Doing so will make our artwork better, right? Doesn't...
HT2606 - The Trendline of Photography
In the early years of the 20th century, photography struggled to establish its reputation as a medium for artistic expression. As a medium, it gained...
HT2605 - What Is vs What Becomes
The fundamental characteristic of photography is that it shows us what is, the instant that is. This differs so dramatically from performance arts whe...
LW1503 - Nurturing Your Creative Impulse
I would bet that a significant number of photographers would claim their most valuable tool is their camera. I would propose your most valuable tool i...
HT2604 - Bigger Than Real Life
The very first print I ever sold as a young photographer was an image of a 1-in mushroom cap that I printed to 16x20". I didn't realize at the time wh...
HT2603 - Our Digital Files and Our Mortality
Our generation is facing a very strange conundrum, at least strange compared to previous generations of photographers. They may have left their negati...