LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

HT0963 - Soundscape and Photography

For as long as I can remember, I've thought there was a relationship between the ambient sound we hear and the photographs we see. For example, I struggle to appreciate landscape photography in the hubbub and activity of a gallery opening. The surrounding noise taints my appreciation of the landscapes. Similarly at home, I think about photographs differently depending on the music I'm playing in the background.

HT0960 - Over Time

Photography is ideal for capturing the moment, but a single photograph does little to tell us about changes over time. Fortunately, we have an ideal presentation method to show changes over time — the diptych, triptych, and even more images in a single frame.

HT0958 - The Problem with Drones

Drones are still a relatively new thing in photography and drone images are still novel and fun. But the more drone-based images are seen the less novel and less unique they will become. Eventually they will be judged not on their novelty but on their creative expression. Novelty always wears off.

HT1019 - Sunsets

During all those years I was a strictly b/w photographer, I never paid much attention to sunsets. In the last 15 years of adding color work to my tool bag, I've paid lot more attention to sunsets and discovered they are a lot harder to photograph successfully than I thought. It's not a technical issue, but a real challenge to avoid the cliché.

LW1267 - The Moment

One of photograph's greatest strengths is its total immersion of the moment. If only our mind could so easily join our camera in the moment we might be better photographers.

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