LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
Brooks Jensen
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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 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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HT0963 - Soundscape and Photography
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/23/21 • 2 min
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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.
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HT0960 - Over Time
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/20/21 • 2 min
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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.
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HT0948 - Connecting the Dots
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/08/21 • 2 min
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HT0948 - Connecting the Dots
One of the reasons I love small projects with multiple images is what happens in the interstices between the images. We fill in information while we connect the dots from picture to picture in our mind's eye. In fact, image selection and sequencing is all about that process that takes place as we connect the images and their content.
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HT0952 - A Grand Slam Home Run
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/12/21 • 2 min
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HT0952 - A Grand Slam Home Run
In baseball, every batter who hits a grand slam home run knows it's not strictly and solely a matter of their batting skill. It requires a pitcher to make a mistake in order for the batter to capitalize on it. The same thing can be said of grand slam home run photographs. It's not strictly a matter of the skill of the photographer, but also relies on a certain amount of distribution luck and a coincidental synchronicity between the photograph and the public's receptivity to that specific image.
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HT0958 - The Problem with Drones
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/18/21 • 2 min
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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.
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HT0959 - Disappearing Colors
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/19/21 • 2 min
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HT0959 - Disappearing Colors
If you photograph in color, it's absolutely important that you understand the role of gamut in reproducing your images. Commercial offset printing has difficulties achieving equivalent saturation with certain colors and that can substantially affect some images.
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HT0950 - Art Is for Humans
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/10/21 • 2 min
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HT0950 - Art Is for Humans
Art may not always be about humans, but it is always made for humans. One of the great challenges of landscape photography, for example, is how we relate what is before the camera to the humans who will view our artwork. They're always has to be some human connection, even if we only make art for ourselves. Assuming, that is, that you who are reading this are, indeed, a human being.
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HT0949 - The Weather
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/09/21 • 2 min
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HT0949 - The Weather
Unless your entire photographic efforts take place indoors, weather will definitely be a factor in your photography. Speaking strictly about comfort levels, it would sure be lovely if the weather was constantly sunny and 72°. But when it comes to photography, it's been my experience the days of rapidly changing weather make for the best photography.
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LW1267 - The Moment
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/11/21 • 12 min
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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.
You might also be interested in. . .
Every Picture Is a Compromise, a series at www.brooksjensenarts.com.
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"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.
LensWork Online includes hundreds of hours of audio, video, and downloadable content - literally terabytes of content, content, and more content. All 1200+ of Brooks Jensen's podcasts, the complete Here's a Thought... video library, Looking at Images commentaries, Creative Labs and new channels for 2020 including Finding the Picture and Those Who Inspire Me (and Why). We add new content literally every day. You can learn more about memberships to LensWork Online at www.lenswork.com.
And don't forget that all members can download the digital versions of LensWork for your tablet or computer. LensWork Online is the most content-rich resource for ideas and inspiration you'll find anywhere on the Internet.
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HT0957 - Snow Can't Be White
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
10/17/21 • 2 min
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HT0957 - Snow Can't Be White
One of the things that makes objects like snow so delicate to print is that the paper base itself is white. If we make the snow white, then it just looks like paper and in particular we can lose the edge of the photograph.
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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process currently has 627 episodes available.
What topics does LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process cover?
The podcast is about Creativity, Photography, Arts and Visual Arts.
What is the most popular episode on LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process?
The episode title 'HT0963 - Soundscape and Photography' is the most popular with 1 listens, 1 ratings and 1 comments/reviews.
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The average episode length on LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process is 4 minutes.
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Episodes of LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process are typically released every day.
When was the first episode of LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process?
The first episode of LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process was released on Aug 23, 2021.
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