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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HT2484 - Sometimes the Meaning Requires Time
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HT2484 - Sometimes the Meaning Requires Time During one of the first Christmas holidays after my divorce in the late 1980s, I drove over to Eastern Oregon on Christmas Day for a little photography. I made one image that day. It took years for me to understand what that image was, but in many ways it changed my relationship with photography profound…
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HT2483 - Pixels Per Meter I was looking at an astronomy website when it introduced me to a term and concept I'd never heard before. Describing the resolution of an image based on how close the spaceship had come to one of Saturn's orbiting moons, it said that each pixel in the photograph represented five meters worth of subject matter. I've never t…
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HT2482 - Useful Photography It seems that most fine art photography tends to be decorative in nature. I love seeing a beautiful print on display in someone's home. Décor is not the only use for photography that is art. There exists an entire approach to artwork that marries the beautiful and the practical. I was in a used bookstore last fall and fo…
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HT2481 - Counting Shots My first 35 years in photography were deep in the roots of the analog workflow. One of the realities that was constantly at the top of my thinking was the allocation of the film I had with me and it's finite capacity. Long before I headed out on a photographic trip I had to strategize and calculate the number of shots I woul…
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HT2480 - A Language I Do Not Speak One of the objectives of art is to communicate with others. That communication does rely, however, on a common language and vocabulary. I was thinking about this last night as I attended my first ever ballet performance — the classic holiday fare, The Nutcracker. I felt badly that this holiday classic connects so …
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LW1485 - Do We Still Need a Camera? A long-time LensWork reader asks why Brooks is not an early adopter of AI technology for making photographic artwork. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access, terabytes of content, inspiration and ideas that exp…
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HT2479 - Screen vs Print Synchronicity A source of constant frustration over the years has been the differences between what I see on my computer monitor and what I see in a print. They're never the same, no matter how hard I try to line up color management, ICC profiles, paper variations, and all the fiddly software controls at my disposal. But th…
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HT2478 - Photography As a Spiritual Practice
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HT2478 - Photography As a Spiritual Practice Photography and spiritual practices would seem to be worlds apart. I'm not so sure about that. Do we need to know the photographer's foundation in order to appreciate their work? Are we aware that our appreciation of artwork is a function of our spiritual foundations? This RSS feed includes only the most…
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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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