LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

Brooks Jensen
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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These short 2-4 minute 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 35 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. 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. His latest books are "The Creative Life in Photography" (2013) and "Looking at Images (2014).

  1. 13 HRS AGO

    HT2195 - Theme Walls

    A while back I talked about poster hangers as an easy way to display prints. In particular, poster hangers facilitate a very easy change of prints on display with frequency. This has led me to discover what I'm calling a "theme wall."

    3 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    HT2194 - When Losers Aren't Losers

    The other day I pulled out a box of prints that I last reviewed probably a dozen years ago. I was disappointed there were so many bad photographs that for some reason I had decided were worth printing and keeping. I then showed this collection to a friend who picked out three "losers" they wanted, thereby demonstrating that beauty really does reside in the eye of the beholder.

    3 min

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    HT2193 - The Best Glass You Can Get Your Hands On

    The number of camera reviews to be found on YouTube and the internet is mind-boggling. The minute a new camera is announced, the usual suspects are in a panic race to post their observations of the new camera and it's capabilities and shortcomings. Comparatively speaking, lens reviews are almost non-existent. Curious, in that a bad lens ruins all photographs made with it where even the worst cameras can be used to make good photographs.

    3 min

  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    HT2192 - Monochrome Viewfinder

    As a lifetime black and white photographer, I have to admit that I do not see in black and white. Some photographers have that uncanny skill, but I simply don't. I need help to see in black and white. I used to use the Fred Picker monochrome viewing filter, but now I just set my cameras to monochrome in my viewfinder.

    3 min

  5. 3 DAYS AGO

    LW1444 - Books I Return to Time and Again

    Here is a short list of books I never seem to tire of and that I make time for re-viewing. Each viewing brings out more subtleties and things I missed in my earlier times with these books.

    13 min

  6. 4 DAYS AGO

    HT2191 - No Visible Difference, or Megapixel Agnostic

    The other day I saw a YouTube reviewer make a comment that they can't see any difference between 44 megapixels and 60 megapixels .I'm working on a small project that will probably include 15 or so images. Curiously enough, about half of these images were shot with a 16 megapixel camera, the other half using a 20 megapixel camera. I'm making 13x19 in prints. That means the 30 megapixel camera is printing at 300ppi and the 16 megapixel camera is printing at 255ppi. I can see no difference between them whatsoever.

    3 min

  7. 5 DAYS AGO

    HT2190 - Sensor Noise in High Frequency Images

    No one likes noise. The techniques and tools for eliminating noise in a digital photograph abound. But no one ever seems to ask whether or not we really need to eliminate it. I recently discovered a situation in which the noise generated at ISO 12800 was invisible and I felt no need to go after it.

    3 min

  8. 6 DAYS AGO

    HT2189 - Black Point

    It is so easy in digital processing to set a black point. I've seen with regularity digital gurus set a black point for every image as one of their first steps in processing. Does every image need a black point?

    3 min
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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These short 2-4 minute 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 35 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. 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. His latest books are "The Creative Life in Photography" (2013) and "Looking at Images (2014).

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