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- HT2691 - Art As a Shortcut
Hopefully without sounding too hedonistic, I would propose that life is experience. Mortality, however, being what it is, prevents us from unlimited experience. One of the purposes of art is that it allows us to expand our experience of life beyond the personally experiential. You can feel through my art just as I can feel through yours. There is a difference, however, between seeing through your eyes and feeling through your heart.
Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks! - HT2690 - Start Anywhere
Don't have an idea for a project? Pick an image at random and spend some time processing it. It's less important that you're processing that image than it is to be aware of ideas and hints that pop into mind while you're processing. If nothing occurs to you with that first image, pick another image at random and process it. Eventually, without fail, I've found an idea will come to mind even if it is a bit indistinct and fuzzy with the first glimpse. Ideas come from pictures more often than the other way around. Creative momentum is the key.
Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks! - HT2689 - New Software Capabilities vs Convenience Features
Software updates have become a part of every digital photographers routine. Every time a new software update is announced, I look forward to new capabilities that will open up new ways to improve my images. So many times, however, the so-called "update" has more to do with making things easier than with making things possible.
Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks! - HT2688 - Outside the Box
We've all heard that age-old maxim about creativity and "thinking outside the box." We are supposed to hear this exhortation relative to our unconscious habits. I would propose that the box we are supposed to get outside of is the camera itself. When I find myself thinking I've made a nice photograph, I know I need to let go of photography and remember that art is about LIFE, not our chosen medium of expression.
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Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks! - LW1514 - Where You Draw the Line
We are fast approaching that point where each of us need to draw the line about our involvement with AI and photography. Come to think of it, we may have already passed the line, at least for some of us. At what point do you call an AI generated image a fake? At what point does the involvement of AI mean the image is no longer artwork? No longer photography, no longer yours? What amount of AI are you willing to accept as you create your work? Culturally we are struggling with these issues, but individually we can make immediate decisions for ourselves about where we want to draw the line for our work
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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 Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily Here's a thought… audios (extracted from the videos.) Here's a thought… are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life.
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. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are The Best of the LensWork Interviews (2016), Photography, Art, and Media (2016), and the four annual volumes of Seeing in SIXES (2016-2019).
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