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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HT2697 - New Life for Old Ideas
Over the last 50 years in photography, I've had a number of ideas that I thought were good at the time, rejected because they were too odd, and now re...
HT2696 - Photographs Are Never Real
The arguments against AI are often punctuated with concerns about those images being fake. Aren't all photographs fake? All photographs are flat, two-...
HT2695 - Creative Possibilities for Two-sided Inkjet Paper
The availability of two-sided inkjet paper has opened up fascinating doors of creativity. With two-sided paper we can do folded paper books like chapb...
LW1515 - On Your Walls at Home
LW1515 - On Your Walls at Home
What artwork do you have hanging on the walls at your house? What photographic artwork do you have hanging in you...
HT2694 - Motivating the Viewer
Imagine that I wanted you to read Tolstoy's War and Peace. What would your reaction be? On the other hand, what if I suggested you read today's funny...
HT2693 - Every Picture Is a Story, or Should Be
It's probably silly of me to make such a definitive statement, but I can't help but think for the vast majority of images the story told through the v...
HT2692 - Lessons from My EPIC Series
I've just posted episode #1600 in my series Every Picture is a Compromise. I started this project with the idea of being helpful, but interestingly en...
HT2691 - Art As a Shortcut
Hopefully without sounding too hedonistic, I would propose that life is experience. Mortality, however, being what it is, prevents us from unlimited e...
HT2690 - Start Anywhere
Don't have an idea for a project? Pick an image at random and spend some time processing it. It's less important that you're processing that image tha...
HT2689 - New Software Capabilities vs Convenience Features
Software updates have become a part of every digital photographers routine. Every time a new software update is announced, I look forward to new capab...
HT2688 - Outside the Box
We've all heard that age-old maxim about creativity and "thinking outside the box." We are supposed to hear this exhortation relative to our unconscio...
LW1514 - Where You Draw the Line
LW1514 - Where You Draw the Line
We are fast approaching that point where each of us need to draw the line about our involvement with AI and pho...
HT2687 - You Must Have a Really Good Camera
How do these kinds of notions become so wide spread? If I owned a Steinway, would that make me an accomplished pianist? Would a fancier fountain pen m...
HT2686 - How We Want to See the World
In their candid moments, most any landscape photographer will admit that most of the world is not very photogenic. That's why we run off to the exotic...
HT2685 - I Was
There is a component to being a fine art photographer that is rooted in personal testament. Every photograph says, in part, "I was here, I existed, th...
HT2684 - Feeling Futile
I don't know an artist who doesn't feel, from time to time, a touch of futility. An image fails to live up to our wishes. We look at that stack of uns...
HT2683 - Criteria For Choosing a Camera
What is the most important thing you look for when choosing a camera? Megapixels? Price? Ergonomics? Features? Portability? Weight? Brand? What if I w...
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...