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Here's a Thought… #2799 with Brooks Jensen

The Field of Search

You've managed to carve a little time from your busy schedule and have an opportunity to do photography. Where do you search for your next photograph? In The Great outdoors? On a busy urban street? In your still life studio? Or could it possibly be waiting to be discovered in your Lightroom catalog?

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Here's a Thought… #2798 with Brooks Jensen

Art That Is Not Pretty

In this week's podcast, I was bemoaning the overload of pretty pictures we are surrounded with these days. A logical question then becomes What is an artistic photograph that isn't pretty? I think this question gets right to the heart of personally expressive photography.

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Here's a Thought… #2797 with Brooks Jensen

Artmaking Is Problem-Solving

I have a daughter who loves puzzles. Watching her attack a puzzle reminds me of the process I engage when working on art. The end can often be visualized, but the means to get there cannot. That could almost be the definition of a puzzle. To reach the end requires innumerable steps almost all of which are essentially trial and error, or perhaps I should say "educated and deduced guess" followed by new understanding which leads to another educated guess. We sneak up on the answer rather than pouncing on it.

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Here's a Thought… #2796 with Brooks Jensen

Drive-by Misses

The other day I was talking about my preference for base camp shooting rather than incessant travel. We've now been on the road for a month and I hate to think of how many things we've driven by that appealed to me photographically but were impossible to access because we're pulling the trailer. These drive-by misses are almost painful.

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Here's a Thought… #2795 with Brooks Jensen

Megapixels versus Paper and Ink

Some of you have unlimited budgets and can skip this thought. The rest of us have decisions to make. Do you buy expensive, high megapixel cameras that leave a smaller budget for paper and inks? Or, do you choose a moderately priced camera that allows a more generous budget for prints, better lenses, travel, faster computers, etc.? More lotto tickets is not the answer.

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