LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

Brooks Jensen

Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process.

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    HT2067 - Brevity Is the Soul

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    HT2067 - Brevity Is the Soul

    I know that Shakespeare was talking about the soul of wit, but I've come to conclude it is the soul of photography, too. At least it can be. How often do you look at a book or a project and wish there was more? As compare to, how many times to you find yourself looking at a project or a book and feeling like it is getting too long or repetitive?

    5 November 2024, 5:00 am
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    HT2066 - Way to Go, God

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    HT2066 - Way to Go, God

    My friend Joe Lipka (who is a lifelong practicing Catholic) will often set up his tripod to capture a beautiful landscape with the words, "Way to go, God!" I've come to recognize this as a type of photography. No one would ever think this about a novel, a piece of music, a poem, or sculpture.

    4 November 2024, 5:00 am
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    LW1426 - More Captures, or More Artwork

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    LW1426 - More Captures, or More Artwork

    I'm of the school of thought that when you've clicked the shutter and made another capture, you haven't made artwork, yet. So what will you do with this precious day, evening, hour? Do you need more captures? Or, would your time be better spent making a print or some other finished piece of art?

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    4 November 2024, 5:00 am
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    HT2065 - The Forgotten Ones

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    HT2065 - The Forgotten Ones

    Buried in your Lightroom catalog are tons of images that deserve deeper attention. I have no doubt about this. I have faith that each time you click the shutter you do so because there was something that connected with you. That is, you've never clicked the shutter on a purposeful loser. Those potential images in your catalog have simply slipped out of mind.

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    3 November 2024, 5:00 am
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    HT2064 - Monitor Calibration

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    HT2064 - Monitor Calibration

    There have been a few times - - but only a few - - when a photographer we've published has been a bit disappointed in how their images looked in LensWork. In every case, it turns out that there was a monitor calibration issue on their end that was easily resolved. For critical work, the first step is always to calibrate your monitor, with hardware calibration if possible.

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    2 November 2024, 4:00 am
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    HT2063 - The Additive Process

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    HT2063 - The Additive Process

    The process of photographic composition is, by the nature of its mechanics, a subtractive process. What superfluous and distracting element can we remove from the framing? It can be useful, however, to reverse this and think of our composition as an additive process, like painters do.

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    1 November 2024, 4:00 am
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    HT2062 - The Five Colors Blind the Eye

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    HT2062 - The Five Colors Blind the Eye

    Laotzu, that old rascal of a sage from 600 BC in China, advised that "the five colors blind the eye and the five notes deafen ear." He was proposing that there are more subtleties in color and sound than our methods of notation can record. I think there's an interesting parallel to this idea for us photographers.

    31 October 2024, 4:00 am
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    HT2061 - The Bonds That Make a Project

    Here's a thought ...

    HT2061 - The Bonds That Make a Project

    A multi-image project is a project because something binds all the images together to make a theme. What is it that defines the images as a unified thing? Is it the subject? The mood? The location? The processing? How you answer this question about unity makes or discourages a viewer's relationship to the project.

    30 October 2024, 4:00 am
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