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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process Brooks Jensen
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4.6 • 385 Ratings
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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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HT1965 - We Are Creatures of Habit
I try to think about what I am doing photographically, but sometimes my (bad) habits simply overpower my better intentions. For example, I know my habit is to think of a wide angle lens as one that shows more to the left and the right of a normal lens. I have to consciously fight that habit to use that lens as a near-far lens.
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HT1964 - Getting the Right Tones
Pushing tones around might make an image have better light, but that doesn't guarantee it will be a better photograph. Images might be enhanced by tonal adjustments, but it's content, meaning, and metaphor that make a photograph better artwork.
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HT1963 - I Didn't Know I Needed That
We live in the age of software. Even if you are producing analog prints from the wet darkroom, you still use digital means to share your work on the Internet, produce you work as a book, or email your images to, say, LensWork. Learning software is a part of our creative life. Here's a thought about the two strategies for embracing software.
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HT1962 - Mood, Feeling, Emotion
In a generic sense, a piece of artwork has the purpose of shifting our emotional state of mind. In most cases, that means a shift from everyday awareness to an elevated sensitivity. How do we break through everyday awareness so people will experience a shift of mood, feeling, or emotion? Doesn't this seem like a question for either biologists or psychologists? Do those disciplines offer any clues?
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HT1961 - The Poetry in Photography
Of all the artistic and non-artistic media, photography is considered the most objective, factual, documentarian. I think this idea about photography is so widespread that it complicates things for those of us who see photography as visual poetry.
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LW1411 - More Fun
I've been seriously (note the word) involved in photography for 50 years. I've learned to value of letting go of the seriousness. From time to time, maybe it's worth a little experimenting to design a photographic project that would be a lot more fun and a lot less work.
Customer Reviews
Awesome Podcast
This is the best podcast on photography. Brooke has such clear, soothing and pleasant voice. He speaks to commonsense and reason. Even my wife, who is only an occasional iPhone photographer likes to listen to his podcast. I highly recommend these podcasts.
Simply the best podcast on photography
This is simply the best photography podcast. It is the one that makes me think, inspires me to be a better photographer.
Well worth your time.
Many photography podcasts go for too long, this is well-done and concise.