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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HT2439 - The Space That Supports Your Work
Once I had seriously committed myself to photography in the 1970s, I didn't fully realize the implications that would govern my choices of living spac...
HT2438 - Fall Fog Season
I know so many photographers who get excited about the fall season and all those wonderful colored hillsides of orange and yellow keaves. For me, fall...
HT2437 - What I Hope to Accomplish with These Thoughts
One of the criticisms I have about a lot of workshop instructors is that their basic premise is to persuade and motivate the participants to do photog...
LW1479 - Photography Lessons from Japanese Woodblock Prints
LW1479 - Photography Lessons from Japanese Woodblock Prints
I've been an admirer of Japanese woodblock prints (known as ukiyo-e) for quite some...
HT2436 - The Second and Third Layer of Comprehensiond
How much time does it take to fully understand a photograph? Of course, there is no single answer for the simple reason that photographs are so varied...
HT2435 - Processing and the Time of Day
As strange as it might sound, I've noticed that how I process an image depends on when in the day I do it. Finicky details and complex processing step...
HT2434 - Anticipating the Ways a Picture Might Fail
There are many ways a picture can fail. Instead of thinking about what we need to do to make a picture succeed, what if we turn that around and antici...
HT2433 - 1,000 Captures
When I used medium format film, I got 8 shots per roll of 120. I took 200 rolls of film with me to Japan in 1990, well over half of which came back wi...
HT2432 - Even 2500th Second Can Blur
During the initial review of images from the trip, I was surprised to see some handheld shots that were not sharp even though they had been shot at 1/...
HT2431 - Mean Stack Noise Reduction Repurposed
Back in 2022, I created a video in our LensWork Creative Labs series in which I discussed something called Mean Stack Noise Reduction. That technique...
HT2423 - Roads
Making photographs and sharing photographs are two different things. Many of us make photographs because we can't not make them. Sharing, however, is...
LW1478 - The Reason We Do Photography
LW1478 - The Reason We Do Photography
All of us involved in photography have a reason we are so passionate about it. Knowing that reason can be...
HT2429 - Stuff Not Used
When I get back from a big trip, one of the decompression things I like to do is review my gear use. Since I put so much time and thought into the kit...
HT2428 - Volumes 1, 2, and 3
Large bodies of work are difficult to consume. Think War and Peace versus haiku. Novelists know the advantages of breaking their narrative into smalle...
HT2427 - Ruthless Editing to the Narrative
I believe we have the opposite problem from the one our photographic forefathers had. Their challenge was to make a great photograph with primitive ma...
HT2426 - Sensor Clean X2
I cringe every time I see those fuzzy blue circles in the sky that indicate I have dust on the sensor of the camera. I was given a suggestion by a rea...
HT2425 - Not Just the Most Recent
Now that I'm back from two months on the road, it's time to see what I have. For me, that process most often starts with building some collections bas...
HT2424 - Problematic Bokeh
A peculiar property of a long focal length lens is that it can render a semi-distant object ever-so-slightly outside the depth of field. Instead of lo...
HT2423 - Roads
Landscape photography is inextricably tied to roads. Even if we are hiking into rough terrain, we get to the trailhead via a road. Photographically, n...
LW1477 - The Problem with Location-Based Projects
LW1477 - The Problem with Location-Based Projects
I've returned from my 2-months on the road and am starting the long process of reviewing the...
HT2422 - They All Come from Projects
What most of us tend to show matted, framed, and hanging in a place of importance in our home are the very best images we've created. But where do the...
HT2421 - The Difficulty with Gray
I've started to work on some of the images from my trip and in particular those from the Badlands of South Dakota. These are tricky images to process...
HT2420 - Things or Moments
Ask a photographer what it is they make pictures of and the chances are they will answer THINGS or perhaps PEOPLE. Perhaps, but more likely than not w...
HT2419 - Bad Light
Yesterday I was photographing in the South Dakota badlands and had a moment when I thought, "This is really bad light." It took me a minute to remembe...
HT2418 - Returning with a Zoom Lens
In the 1980s, I made a photograph of the hills near my grandmother's home in Tensleep, Wyoming. I was never thrilled with that image and finally had t...
HT2417 - Gathering Strategies
I've talked on numerous occasions about my strategy of gathering assets while I'm in the field rather than pre-visualizing finished images. I've never...
HT2416 - The Most Important Thing We Need
We photographers are always on the hunt for a subject, a new technique, better equipment, and more time. I've come to realize, however, that the most...
LW1476 - Minor White and the Symbolic Image
LW1476 - Minor White and the Symbolic Image
Minor White (one of my all-time favorite photographers) advised us not to photography only what it i...
HT2415 - Thinking in Groups
Yesterday in my Here's a Thought about Going Back, I inadvertently dropped a pretty big hint about thinking in groups. Where do we find the seeds for...
HT2414 - Going Back
I've had two instances of going back to photograph again something I'd already done once before. It's often said that we can't go back. I think there...
HT2413 - Waiting for the Light
Yesterday, I was at a terrific location for high altitude mountain photography. The scene was lovely, the rocks majestic, and the snow a perfect accen...
HT2412 - The Crucial Missing Element from So Much of Fine Art Photography
One of the most common reactions I have when I see great artwork is that I cannot comprehend how it was done. There is some magic in the fact that it...
HT2411 - Fleeting Ideas
It's said that Charles Dickens during his long meandering walks through London, would always carry with him a notebook. He would jot down descriptions...
HT2410 - The Unexpected Project
Some of the best advice I've ever heard came from a workshop instructor from my early days in photography, Stewart Harvey. He said the best photograph...
HT2409 - The Unrecognized Masterpiece
Earlier this year I was reading a book on creativity and the author proposed that even the best creators and artists rarely are aware they are produci...
LW1475 - The Dilemma of Volume
LW1475 - The Dilemma of Volume
I remember a time when the creation of a single outstanding image was enough. In fact, that single great image wa...
HT2408 - Viewer Fatigue vs Disinterestedness
We've probably all had the experience when showing a body of work that the viewer doesn't complete the entire project from start to finish. Does this...
HT2407 - Paul Strand
Paul Strand has been a favorite of mine for over 50 years. Three of his books are in my top 10 all-time favorites list. Time in New England (1950), Un...
HT2406 - GPS EXIF Data
I can connect my cameras to my cell phone in such a way that each image I photograph records the GPS information from my cell phone into the ex of dat...
HT2405 - I Am Not a Landscape Photographer
Don't get me wrong, I do photograph the landscape. But the purpose of my landscape photography is not to make a statement about the landscape but rath...