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. 10 HR AGO

    HT2089 - The Missing Stories

    As painful as it is for us photographers to admit, most of our images could benefit from an attendant story. A few tell their own story, but most seem naked or inadequate without a bit of context.

    3 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    HT2088 - Time, Expense, and Equipment Failure

    Photography is an expensive hobby. Cameras cost money; computers cost money, printers cost money and no one outside of billionaire status can afford ink. That said, the most costly part of photography (at least for landscape photography) is the cost of travel. When equipment failures ruin the results from travel, it's particularly costly.

    3 min

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    HT2087 - Is Photography an Act of Acquisition, or One of Reception?

    It is well-known among landscape photographers that Nature is most often stubbornly uncooperative. What does that mean? It's not that Nature is plotting against us, but it might point to the fact that we are trying to impose our will upon the world based on an acquisitive predisposition.

    3 min

  4. 2 DAYS AGO

    LW1429 - Darkroom Work in My Jammies

    Too much of a good thing can lead to a numb response. I was reminded of while I was looking through a sizable book in the presence of the photographer. After the first 50 images, my attention began to wane. After 100 images, I was numb.

    13 min

  5. 3 DAYS AGO

    HT2086 - Expanding the Delivery Medium

    I had a fascinating experience yesterday that I think offers us photographers something to think about. I went to a live performance of the Metropolitan Opera of New York that was streamed to our local movie theater.

    3 min

  6. 4 DAYS AGO

    HT2085 - Commentary Beyond the Photograph

    In workshop and photo group critique sessions that I've observed over 50 years, almost all the comments offered are about technique, composition, or gear related. Such comments might be useful for beginning students, but a much more helpful kind of comment has to do with the content, the feelings the photograph generates, metaphors that come to mind.

    3 min

  7. 5 DAYS AGO

    HT2084 - Digital vs Optical Zoom

    A lens captures a finite amount of detail in a finite image circle on the film plane. Increasing the size of that circle through digital zoom does not increase the amount of detail that was captured; it just makes it bigger. This is known as "empty magnification." Optical zoom from the same position, however, captures smaller detail as the subject gets larger in the field of view

    3 min

  8. 6 DAYS AGO

    HT2083 - Getting Closer

    A universal rule in photography is to get closer to the content. This may not mean getting physically closer. The idea of getting closer means different things for different subjects. For example, getting closer to a distant landscape probably implies using a longer lens. Conversely, getting closer in street photography probably implies using a wider lens.

    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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