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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 photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork ...
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HT2130 - The One Perfect Size I've witnessed numerous discussions in which a photographer has proposed the idea that there is one perfect size for every image. Making that image smaller or larger somehow diminishes it. I don't bring this topic up to attack or defend it, but rather to ask the simple question how do they know? In order to determine t…
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LW1435 - Photography and the Utopian Image
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There is a distinct difference between photography that shows us the world and photography that shows us the artist's conception of the ideal world. The digital age has magnified Utopian Photography. I just watched a YouTube video in which a Photoshop guru improved a picture of a beautiful woman by brightening her teeth, deepening the color of her …
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HT2129 - All the Gray Hair Is Worrisome In the 1970s and '80s, there was a huge uptick of people engaging fine art photography. I suspect this was the result of luminaries like Ansel Adams bringing photography to the masses, but also a result of the increased quality of image reproduction in books. I never attended an Ansel Adam's workshop, but I'v…
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HT2128 - Irrelevant Information Every artist who knows their craft can explain it with some amount of detail. Does knowing how they do it make our appreciation of their accomplishment any deeper? Or is it better to be amazed and let go of our questions about how it was done?Par Brooks Jensen
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HT2127 - Tiny Prints I remember visiting the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1980s and seeing on display a collection of tiny prints in very large frames. As I recall, they were 35mm contact prints presented and framed in 16x20 matboard. The exhibition was unusual, but watching people view these prints was especially interesting. I noticed that eve…
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HT2126 - About Backgrounds, Sort Of We need a new word other than "background" to describe what I want to discuss in today's commentary. We normally think of the background of a photograph as that part that's not the subject but is still inside the borders of the image. But every photograph has another background that is either the mat board of a f…
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HT2125 - The Stunning Image Has Been Replaced If we look back at the history of photography and concentrate on what we now call "fine art photograph," we see that a great deal of the success of a photograph was its technological accomplishment. We'd look at a print and say, "Wowee, how did they do that?" In my youth, that question launched a pursui…
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HT2124 - Montage In 2016, we launched the idea of six-image projects we called Seeing in SIXES. We presented them in book format with one image per page in a six-page sequence. A variation of that idea has intrigued me of late. Why not place six images into a montage layout on a single sheet of paper?…
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LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids
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This RSS Feed to be Deprecated As of January 2023, this RSS feed will be phased out and then retired in mid-February 2023. Please redired your RSS feed to the following URL. http://www.lenswork.com/podcast.xml LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids Still photography is wonderful, but the single image is not the only option. Sequences a…
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