Lenswork podcasts
Lenswork is an excellent photography magazine. Not a photography gear magazine nor a photography technique magazine, Lenswork is a magazine exclusively about photographs and the experience of making photos. Their reproductions are fabulous, with 2-3 portfolios in each issue to peruse. Brooks Jensen’s editorials are often inspiring or thought provoking (his latest on pricing photos ignited a two week discussion in my photo group). Every issue includes either an interview with, or essay about a photographer - again focusing more on the artistic motivations of the photographer than his favorite button in Photoshop. If you’re a photographer, it’s worth checking out.
But that’s not what I want to tell you about. What’s cool is that they’ve got a podcast. (I know: trendy). I’ve plugged their podcast into bloglines and found that it’s well worth the time. Like the magazine, it’s more about the process than the tools. Here are some of my favorites:
- Immersion in Composition - Re-iterates the need to do something photographic every day to keep you sharp.
- 1000 Photographs - Instead of pricing your photos really high and only having a few people get to enjoy your work, price it really low (i.e. $20) and let many people savor your style. This is the idea that started the lively discussion I mentioned above.
- October Seas Folio, parts 1 & 3 - This is a fascinating description of the process of editing a photo essay - choosing what stays, what goes and how things fit. Cool observation in part 3: working on an image as part of a group can make those images better than if you had worked on them in isolation.
[Sadly, the Lenswork folks have not to leave all podcasts online for posterity as most blogs & podcasts do, but instead archive them every once in a while to CD collections. You can still order them; you just can’t stream them. OK, I’ll be honest: I hate that they pull them offline, hope they stop doing this, and emailed them accordingly].
