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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HT2525 - The Thread That Binds
The Achilles heel of multiple-image projects is the risk that viewing the work devolves into a popularity contest. Instead of looking for threads and...
HT2524 - The Connection
It's often said that the greatest challenge in photography is learning how to see. It's been my experience that seeing — deep seeing — is a function o...
HT2523 - The True Selfie
Here is a great quote from one of my favorite anthologists: "To see ourselves we have to use a reflecting mirror — for example, art." Take a moment to...
HT2522 - When the Image Takes Charge
Over the years I've noticed a curiosity that pops up from time to time. I'll have in my mind's eye an idea of what I want an image to look like, but w...
HT2521 - Aging Issues
These days, amongst my peers anyway, there's no question that the most frequent topics of discussion have to do with aging. Time, mobility, eyesight i...
LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art
LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art
In the Editors Comments in LensWork #173, I discussed a presentation experiment that allowed me to...
HT2520 - Fantasy or Feedback
Here's a creative challenge that can be a lot of fun. Let's assume that every image in your Lightroom catalog was captured because you, at the time, t...
HT2519 - Stretching the Image
What do you do if, after cropping an image, it no longer fits the aspect ratio of all the other images in your presentation? Do you let that image jus...
HT2518 - Print-on-demand Artwork
Here's an idea that's been floating around photographic circles for the last 25 years or so. What if we were to publish our finished digital files in...
HT2517 - Yesterday's Limitations
My first digital captures were made with an 6 megapixel camera that had a tiny sensor. They were primitive, noisy even at its base ISO, and fell far s...
HT2516 - The First One to Do It
The history of photography is filled with people who didn't make the best but who did make it first. Matthew Brady wasn't the best war photographer in...
HT2515 - Vintage Prints
I don't understand the fuss and value that is place on original prints in photography. In fact, it seems perfectly obvious to me that an early print w...
HT2514 - They Are Not All Winners
Some of what we produce doesn't wear well over time. Nothing we produce connects with everyone who sees it. This is precisely why there is virtue in p...
LW1490 - A Cultivated Curiosity
LW1490 - A Cultivated Curiosity
I have no doubt that I use less than 10% of what my software is capable of doing. I know there are features that...
HT2513 - Post-publication Revisions
There's a fascinating story about revisions in the great Humphrey Bogart film noir movie The Big Sleep. This has me thinking about post-production rev...
HT2512 - Vacuum Dust
A while back I shared some ideas about dealing with the dust that makes those big out of focus blobs in the sky in our images. Here's a companion idea...
HT2511 - Our Inescapable Reliance on Stuff
Just as a thought experiment, what would you do if you could no longer purchase ink for your printer? What if the three big printer manufacturers (Eps...
HT2510 - The Extremes
Like many other human activities, photography can easily evolve into an extreme sport. Will your photographs be visibly better with that 100 megapixel...
HT2509 - Where DOF Fails
A while back I did a research project looking at almost 10,000 raw captures in my Lightroom catalog. I wanted to determine what caused a failed image...
HT2508 - Mastering the Craft vs Photography
Let's talk about feelings. As I think back to all the workshops and classes that I've taken in my 50 years of photography, I can't remember a single o...
HT2507 - You Must Create Your Magnum Opus TODAY
Wouldn't it be lovely if we had a switch we could throw that would turn on our creative genius at a moment's notice? Flick goes the switch and your be...
LW1489 - Your Own Voice
LW1489 - Your Own Voice
In so many ways, we have entered a new era in photography. It's getting harder and harder to be visually unique. Google...
HT2506 - Allocating Our Precious Time
The most valuable commodity we have in our art life is not our gear, not our training, not our creative impulses, not our energy and drive. All those...
HT2505 - Buried in Lightroom
One of the most dramatic impacts of digital photography is the volume of captures that now reside on all of our hard drives. It's not uncommon at all...
HT2504 - Searching for Threads
You've set aside an hour to work on your photography and find yourself sitting at the computer looking at images. At such moments, it is so tempting t...
HT2503 - Managing Results vs Managing Work
Last year I became frustrated that I wasn't getting done as many photographic projects as I had hoped to finish. My old goal-directed business trainin...
HT2502 - Believability vs Truthfulness
The other day I was looking at some of the photo essays done by W. Eugene Smith and published in Life magazine. They're fantastic examples of the inte...
HT2501 - Playing Guitar or Making Music
I recently heard a reviewer say of a musician that he didn't play the guitar, he made music. Boy, does that sum up so much about any medium that is th...
HT2500 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500
I hope you won't mind if I take just a few moments to say thank you and to celebrate this, our 2,500th Here's a Thought commentary, over 6 years of da...
LW1488 - Heres a Thought Number 2,500
LW1488 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500
I hope you won't mind if I take just a few moments to say thank you and to celebrate this, our 2,500th He...
HT2499 - Photographers and Commerce
What percentage of people who bowl aspire to become professional bowlers? What percentage of people who enjoy cooking dinner dream of open a restauran...
HT2498 - The Natural Look
Like I often do with my morning coffee, this morning I watched a few YouTube videos on processing in Lightroom. I've learned a lot from these people,...
HT2497 - The Unhealthy Pursuit of Perfection
We've been watching a television series in which one of the main characters is constantly getting herself in trouble by pursuing perfection. She then...
HT2496 - Transportation and Photography
With very few exceptions, my photography is thoroughly dependent on my ability to transport myself from one location to another. The only time I don't...
HT2495 - Wishing For More
A large part of the production of fine art photographs involves a frustration that we wish our images were better. We'd like them to be more. The impl...
HT2494 - Bridging the Gap Between Life and Fiction
I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of media in our generation and the growth of fiction. Most of what we see on television is a fiction, v...
HT2493 - More on Observation vs Project
Yesterday I was talking about how we might describe what we photographers actually do. Is the core of our activities that we build something or is it...
LW1487 - The Photography I Love
LW1487 - The Photography I Love
Aesthetic conventions come and go. Culture and popular tastes are constantly changing. Example: There are no rad...
HT2492 - Observation or Project
Terminology is such an interesting thing. For some time now, I've used the term "project" as the nomenclature for something produced with multiple ima...
HT2491 - Craft Becomes Obsolete, Art Does Not
I'm not sure the title of this commentary is actually true, but it does point to a thought that can be helpful. In essence, how we make pictures is co...