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).
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2025
HT2302 - How the Work Gets Done
I've heard the art making process on occasion described as taking dictation from God. It's as though the artwork is completely formed before we begin producing it and all we have to do is execute the…
HT2301 - Real World Corner Sharpness
A while back, I purchased a new lens and needed to give it a good test to see how it performs. The most difficult areas for most lenses are the corners. The corners on this new lens were a little sof…
HT2300 - Pounce, With the Patience of a Cat
We are babysitting some cats this week and I've been watching how fascinated and patient they are watching the bird feeder just outside the living room window. They sit for hours watching, hardly mov…
HT2299 - Time for New Hard Drives
I'm not an expert on technology so I listen to the advice of those who know. I once read that it is a good strategy to replace our hard drives every 3-5 years or so. It's been five since my last upda…
HT2298 - Style and Presets
You may have heard me talk about style in a previous podcast. I find that style today is not a single aesthetic for a photographer's career, but rather an aesthetic the is appropriate for a project. …
LW1459 - Permanence Is Not a Property of the Medium
LW1459 - Permanence Is Not a Property of the Medium
All of us who are serious about photographic prints have been trained to care enough about our images to process them to the highest archival stan…
HT2297 - Abandoned Buildings Are More Than Abandoned Architecture
Along with sand dunes and waterfalls, the most frequent subject we see in submissions to LensWork is abandoned buildings. Particularly prevalent are farm houses and industrial sites. What distinguish…
HT2296 - Selective Color
For much of photography's history, a fundamental decision for photographers revolved around whether an image should be color or black and white. Such thinking, in the age of digital processing, now s…
HT2295 - The Fruitless Search for Perfection
Artmaking by definition (especially in photography) seems to be the search for perfection. Perfection, like a perpetual motion machine, is an illusion — one might even call it a sickness. If the perf…