HT1964 - Getting the Right Tones

Pushing tones around might make an image have better light, but that doesn't guarantee it will be a better photograph. Images might be enhanced by tonal adjustments, but it's content, meaning, and metaphor that make a photograph better artwork.

HT1963 - I Didn't Know I Needed That

We live in the age of software. Even if you are producing analog prints from the wet darkroom, you still use digital means to share your work on the Internet, produce you work as a book, or email your images to, say, LensWork. Learning software is a part of our creative life. Here's a thought about the two strategies for embracing software.

HT1962 - Mood, Feeling, Emotion

In a generic sense, a piece of artwork has the purpose of shifting our emotional state of mind. In most cases, that means a shift from everyday awareness to an elevated sensitivity. How do we break through everyday awareness so people will experience a shift of mood, feeling, or emotion? Doesn't this seem like a question for either biologists or psychologists? Do those disciplines offer any clues?

HT1961 - The Poetry in Photography

Of all the artistic and non-artistic media, photography is considered the most objective, factual, documentarian. I think this idea about photography is so widespread that it complicates things for those of us who see photography as visual poetry.

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LW1411 - More Fun

I've been seriously (note the word) involved in photography for 50 years. I've learned to value of letting go of the seriousness. From time to time, maybe it's worth a little experimenting to design a photographic project that would be a lot more fun and a lot less work.

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HT1960 - Being Open, Being Receptive

Lao Tzu advices us to go with the flow. That doesn't mean give up free will, but it does mean that fighting nature can easily become a losing battle. In photography, that implies using the light as it is, using the subjects that fall in our laps, being receptive to the photographic opportunities before us rather than assume the dictatorial response of trying to bend nature to fit our aesthetic expectations.

HT1959 - The Sequence of Events

I received a comment from a listener that illustrated a very important point for all of us who are art creators. Come to think of it, maybe this applies to almost all of our efforts.

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HT1958 - Working Time Per Print

How much time do you spend working on a print? I've never timed myself but I wouldn't be surprised to find the average time I spend working on a print is probably less than a half an hour. Compare this to any other art medium. What if novelist spend only a half an hour to bang out their masterpiece? Or painters a half an hour to execute a portrait?

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HT1957 - Layers of Understanding

I went to a piano recital last night featuring the world-famous Yuja Wang. Wow. But there is more to this story than I listened to some music.

HT1956 - Finished, But Rejected

I remember in my film days being discouraged that I might only get one reasonable image out of a role of 36 exposures. Now that I'm older, I've come to understand a more unexpected statistic — the number of images that I finish that are ultimately rejected.