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 photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork ...
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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 Here's a Thought commentary, over 6 years of daily thoughts about photography and the art life. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Membership…
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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 daily thoughts about photography and the art life. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!…
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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 restaurant? Golfers, swimmers, runners, painters, poets, car drivers, pet owners, people who play a musical instrument? Why is it that so many photographers want to sell the…
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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, but not always the ideas they think they are teaching. By coincidence, all five videos I watched today were about making images look natural. Why is this the objective? I kno…
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HT2497 - The Unhealthy Pursuit of Perfection
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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 finds herself in difficulty because the perfect is never attainable. She pushes people to unreasonable extremes, is constantly dissatisfied no matter how s…
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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 use a car to go photographing has been my trips to Japan and China. Even there an important part of my success in photography relies on an effective transporta…
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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 implied question is what more could you add to your photographs that would make you happy? More sharpness? More audience? More exotic locations? More print sales? If you could wa…
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HT2494 - Bridging the Gap Between Life and Fiction
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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, video games are a fiction, so much of YouTube is a fiction, and even social media includes a significant amount of fiction. AI is going to compound th…
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LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids
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This RSS Feed to be Deprecated As of January 2023, this RSS feed will be phased out and then retired in mid-February 2023. Please redired your RSS feed to the following URL. http://www.lenswork.com/podcast.xml LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids Still photography is wonderful, but the single image is not the only option. Sequences a…
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