LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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 ph...
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HT2586 - The Data Hidden in the Noise
We click the shutter because there's something there. We feel it, we sense it, we may not be able to describe it, but there is data hidden in the nois...
HT2585 - New Is Not Necessarily a Virtue
Photographers tend to get very excited about everything new. New gear, new techniques, new locations, new venues. The problem with new is that it can...
HT2584 - Everyday Life Interrupted
It's interesting to look back at the artists' statement included with many portfolios in LensWork. It's amazing how many times the photographer begins...
LW1500 - My Heartfelt Thanks, Again
LW1500 - My Heartfelt Thanks, Again
On this day as we post a milestone with LensWork Podcast #1500, let me quote one of my favorite novelists, W...
HT2583 - During One Sitting
If I really want to spend some time with an image to understand it, think about it, consider its implications and deeper message, I know going in that...
HT2582 - Compositional Geometry
Consider one, two, or three. In geometry, one is a point, two is a line, three is a triangle. In photographic composition, one is a thing, two is rela...
HT2580 - Sometimes a Picture Is Just a Picture, Sometimes Not
In these Here's a Thought comments, I talk a lot about meaning and content and the philosophy behind photography. There is, however, a case to be made...
HT2579 - Either Match Perfectly or Not At All
It has been pointed out to me over the years and by several people that I have zero fashion sense, particularly in my choice of clothing. Maureen comp...
HT2578 - Ruthless Editing, Again
Last weekend, more or less just for fun, I reviewed all 180 projects in my Kokoro series of PDFs. One of the conclusions from this review is that I ne...
HT2577 - Little Things Gone Wrong
We try, of course, to do our very best with every image, with every project. We strive for perfection. Do we ever achieve it? Far more often than I ca...
LW1499 - The Most Important Lesson
LW1499 - The Most Important Lesson
I was recently asked, by two different people, about my 50+ years in photography. A non-photographer asked me...
HT2576 - Illumination
I love word play almost as much as I love photography. Has it ever occurred to you the double meaning inherent in the word illumination? We search for...
HT2575 - The Aspect Ratio for Publication
The earliest issues of Kokoro were produced in a portrait orientation. My thinking was that the portrait orientation format would fit better when view...
HT2581 - Visual Tinnitus
This morning I went to one of my favorite breakfast diners. While I was waiting for my food, I pulled out my phone to review a new PDF publication of...
HT2574 - The Difficulty with Warm-toning
I learned about warm-toning in the mid-1980s. At that time, everybody created selenium-toned images that had a slight purple cast. Contrary to the pop...
HT2573 - The Starting Point
My approach to processing is that with every image, the end point of processing is unknown. Aesthetics can evolve, ideas can blossom, expectations can...
HT2572 - At Some Point the Goalposts Moved
For several decades after the invention of photography, the goal for all photographers was to make an optically accurate image. That meant with techni...
HT2571 - Experiment with Abandon
My favorite capability in the digital workflow is undoubtedly Control-Z. The ability to experiment with abandon and then undo what doesn't work makes...
HT2570 - Macro Viewing, or Tiny Screen Syndrome
Can you imagine what a thrill it was in the first half of the 20th century when the means of making a photograph evolved from the contact print to the...
LW1498 - Announcing a New Photograph
LW1498 - Announcing a New Photograph
I remember with aging nostalgia when we would feel so proud about a new image we'd created. "Wowee," we'd p...
HT2569 - A Few Clunkers
I have no idea why, but I felt compelled this morning to look back through my 180 projects published in Kokoro, the first of which was completed in 20...
HT2568 - A Portable Gallery
Here's a story about my friend, the late Kevin Raber. Whenever we would find ourselves discussing an image or a photographer, he would immediately pul...
HT2567 - Moment Is Not Quite the Right Word
One of the things I particularly like about the Seeing In SIXES concept for photography is its ability to expand or stretch time. Instead of the insta...
HT2566 - Appreciating Technical Accomplishment
I had an odd revelation at a concert last night. Afterwards, at dinner, the general consensus was that the pianist was incredibly talented and accompl...
HT2565 - The Updating Dilemma
Major software updates have become a part of our photographic life. Some of these updates in software features are subtle, but occasionally an update...
HT2564 - I Saw This Very Cool Thing
Here's another thought experiment about producing artwork. I looked back at all I've done and divided my productivity into two piles. The first pile w...
HT2563 - Advice on Travel Photography
Here is some advice about travel that doesn't come from me, although I do agree with it. Strangely enough, it's a passage from the book Dodsworth by S...
HT2562 - More on Framing
At the risk of beating a dead horse, here are a few more thought about photography in frames, an extension of yesterday's comments about whether or no...
HT2561 - Is the Frame Part of the Artwork?
We don't just thumbtack our prints to the wall. Instead, we dress them up a little bit. We mat them and frame them and then hang them on the wall. Whe...
HT2560 - Describe What You See
Before you click the shutter, tell me what you see. I would be willing to bet big money that your description would mostly include details of the thin...
HT2559 - A Catalog of Your Work
A friend of mine (who is a little older than I am) is involved in a massive project to create a digital catalog of his life's work. This consists of o...
HT2558 - Losing History
When I started in photography some 50 years ago it was axiomatic and universally understood that it was important to learn the history of photography....
HT2557 - Key Tones
There's a theory in fine art photography that every image needs to have key tones, some spot in the photograph that is absolute black and another that...
LW1497 - Dates, Time, and Eras
LW1497 - Dates, Time, and Eras
When was Edward Weston's famous Pepper #30 photographed? How about Ansel Adams classic Moonrise Over Hernandez? O...
HT2556 - Knowing When to Move
I think it was Picasso who said, "The trick in painting is knowing when to stop." I've adapted Picasso's thought for photograph. When out photographin...
LW1496 - When do you own a photograph?
LW1496 - When do you own a photograph?
Do you own a piece of music because you purchased the CD, or do you own it when you have memorized the tu...
HT2555 - My Advice Cannot Make Your Pictures
I spend way too much time on YouTube because it's such a great way to learn tidbits about the technology of photography. That said, there are also gaz...
HT2554 - Scant Feedback, If Any
Applause is lovely. Accolades are lovely. Sales are lovely. Relying on such feedback to fuel your motivations is to place yourself in a position that...
HT2553 - Minutia
It can be quite entertaining to hear photographers talk about their images. Almost without exception, the photographer will examine tiny areas of the...
HT2552 - Big Things and Little Things
Some friends of ours are visiting Kyoto this week, many of the same places I visited in 2019 in my last visit to Japan. They are sending lots of pictu...