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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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LW1454 - Learning to Self-Critique When I was starting out in photography I had no idea how to self-critique or even that it was a necessary skill I could develop. Looking back on it, I now realize that self-critique is the essence of the creative process. Too bad this isn't a skill that is taught purposely to all beginning photographers. Not what …
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HT2262 - Treasure Every Opportunity The subtitle here is don't ever take anything for granted. He's been spending the last few days in Oregon, the place where I live for 35 years and did so much of my early photography. Now that I live in New York, Oregon has become an exotic location that I see and can photograph only rarely. I realize now what an…
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HT2261 - Seeing Is Not Composing A bit of a cliche for beginning photographers is SZM — Super Zoom Mind. We see, say, a distant mountain, pull up our camera and photograph it only to be disappointed when the mountain is so small in the print. We see the mountain with our telescopic mind rather than composing a picture that includes the mountain. Sh…
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HT2260 - Creativity Rejoices in Routine Two creative individuals who I particularly admire are Anthony Trollope and Johannes Brahms. What these two have in common and have provided as examples for the creative life is the consistency of their creative output by the routines they religiously kept. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast a…
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HT2259 - The Market for Used Photographs I spent the day yesterday in one of my favorite used book stores, Robert's Books in Lincoln City, Oregon. This is a giant building filled to the brim with used books of every kind and age and interest you could possibly imagine. I picked up three volumes of short stories that I'd never heard of or seen befor…
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HT2258 - An Anticipation Sport I am not a sports or wildlife photographer. What I mean by that is that I'm not trained nor practiced at doing that kind of photography. Recently however, I set out to photograph my grandkids at their softball game. My respect for sports photographers has skyrocketed. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast…
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HT2256 - My Inaccurate History of Photography
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HT2256 - My Inaccurate History of Photography We have each created our own photographic literacy and history of photography by the books and exhibitions we've chosen to see. That necessarily leads to holes in our understanding. For example, I know very little about German photography — and I know that hole in my knowledge means I'm missing some gre…
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HT2257 - Failing is Good You won't know that you've succeeded until you first fail and then correct it. Even worse, if you get it right the first time and think you've never failed, that probably means you haven't engaged sufficient risk and pushed the boundaries of the easy. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Her…
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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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