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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
Published by Brooks Jensen
- Arts
- Visual Arts
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 Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily Here's a thought… audios (extracted from the videos.) Here's a thought… are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life. Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork , one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are The Best of the LensWork Interviews (2016), Photography, Art, and Media (2016), and the four annual volumes of Seeing in SIXES (2016-2019).
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- HT2704 - A Photographic 2-Minute Drill
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HT2704 - A Photographic 2-Minute Drill There is a situational strategy in football when the time runs short. It's called the "2-minute drill." Its essence is accomplishing a lot in very short time. We could borrow this idea for project-oriented photography. If you've only got 20 minutes or so to photograph, how do you turn that into short, multi-image project? How should we prepare ourselves for such opportunities? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2703 - Internalizing the Scene
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HT2703 - Internalizing the Scene I assume that all of you are aware of the idea that a camera is a mirror, that every picture we make is a reflection of who we are. There is a kernel of truth in this idea, but I don't think it's automatic nor universal. To internalize a scene requires a conscious effort on our part. That moment is the seed of creating artwork. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- LW1516 - Beyond the Rectangle
LW1516 - Beyond the Rectangle We photographers have quadrilaterals on the brain. Why? The world is not quadrilateral. Why not compose in circles, ovals, or other shapes? Is it because cutting round or oval mats is so difficult? Are we prisoners of the straight-edge ruler? Can we not learn from our lenses — which by the way cast round images onto our quadrilateral sensors? 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 expand daily with new content. Sign up for instant access! You might also be interested in. . . Every Picture Is a Compromise, a series at www.brooksjensenarts.com. and... "How to" tutorials and camera reviews are everywhere on YouTube, but if you're interested in photography and the creative life, you need to know about the incredible resources you can access as a member of LensWork Online.
- HT2702 - When a Group Ceases to Be a Group
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HT2702 - When a Group Ceases to Be a Group One of the interesting things about a multiple image project is how the viewer assembles the collective idea that binds the images into a unified expression. Show three images as a group and the viewer will try to connect them. When the group becomes too large, however, it can be more difficult to see so many images as a group. I think this is one of the reasons "Seeing in SIXES" works so well. It's the sweet spot between the single image and too many to be a group This RSS feed includes only the most recent seven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2600 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online . Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the creative process . Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2701 - A Personal Pile
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HT2701 - A Personal Pile I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. I have a "personal pile" of prints that I rarely (often never) share with anyone. They are not embarrassing, nor obscure. They are ones that I'd just as soon not have my feelings about them diluted or polluted with other's opinions. To call them "spiritual" would be too strong, but they are moments that I treasure and would like to preserve. Maybe I'm being silly about these images, but that's the way I feel. This RSS feed includes only the most recent seven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2500 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online . Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the creative process .
- HT2700 - Small Bites from LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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HT2700 - Small Bites I wish my brain worked in a continuous straight line, but it doesn't. I bounce from idea to idea. For years I've fought this by trying to be creative in a continuous straight line. Why not take the easy path and develop an approach to project development and even image processing that uses a small bite strategy? This is not a creativity problem, it's an organizational problem. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2699 - The Creative Life Is a Daily Habit
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HT2699 - The Creative Life Is a Daily Habit It's almost a cliché to suggest that a creative life is a daily thing. The truth is that it's true. A drop of ink in a gallon of water changes the entire gallon. A drop of creativity in an ordinary day changes the entire day. Does that mean you need to shoot pictures everyday? Might be fun, but for most of us that's impractical. The only thing I know that I can do every day of my life is think about creativity, about photography, about locations, about ideas. Thinking can go with me everywhere, fill a minute here or there, and introduce a drop of creative momentum into every day. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2698 - My Favorite Features of Digital Processing
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HT2698 - My Favorite Features of Digital Processing It seems that with digital processing we can do anything — and do it, if need be, at the pixel level. I find, however that there are a few tools that have dramatically allowed me to make images that were essentially impossible in the analog darkroom. These have become so integral in my image making that I can now barely imagine photography without them. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2697 - New Life for Old Ideas
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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 realize they were pretty good ideas all along. I let convention rule my thinking, an attitude that I now realize is always a mistake. Never let convention get in the way of your creativity. Here are three examples. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2696 - Photographs Are Never Real
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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-dimensional things that show us the world in a significantly reduced scale. The only sense in which photographs are real is that they are symbols, metaphors, representations of a moment or an idea, stand-ins, pointers, guides, translators, in short a photograph is not "the thing itself" in spite of that notion being repeated in photographic art circles Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- 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 your house? Let's consider this more deeply: What percentage of the work you have hanging in your house is yours and what percentage is photography by others? Most photographers I know own lots of work by others, but display in their house mostly their own work. Does that make them egotistical or just proud? Do we display our own work to share or to brag? How does your answer to this question shape what you have on your walls right now? 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 expand daily with new content. Sign up for instant access! You might also be interested in. . . Every Picture Is a Compromise, a series at www.brooksjensenarts.com. and... "How to" tutorials and camera reviews are everywhere on YouTube, but if you're interested in photography and the creative life, you need to know about the incredible resources you can access as a member of LensWork Online.
- HT2695 - Creative Possibilities for Two-sided Inkjet Paper
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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 chapbooks, or three-fold brochure-like presentations. Another idea is to use two-sided paper for a significantly expanded provenance to a print. This RSS feed includes only the most recent seven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2600 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online . Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the creative process . Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2694 - Motivating the Viewer
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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 papers because they were hilarious. What would your reaction be? I use these examples to illustrate the relationship between motivation and required effort. A large and complicated thing requires more effort and motivation than a humble and simple thing. Human nature being what it is, doesn't this pertain equally to photography? This RSS feed includes only the most recent seven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2500 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online . Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the creative process .
- HT2693 - Every Picture Is a Story, or Should Be from LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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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 visuals is more important than the characteristics of the visuals. Story is more important than tones, more important than composition, more important than the medium itself. Photography is more powerful than to limit itself to a "show" medium; it's a "show and tell" medium. Tones, composition, medium are all tools in service to story. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!
- HT2692 - Lessons from My EPIC Series
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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 enough it's turned out to be an educational opportunity for me, too. Looking at 1600 of my failures and thinking about them more deeply has been an incredible learning opportunity I hadn't fully anticipated. I think the deepest lesson here is that thinking about photography can be almost as valuable as doing it. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!