LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
Brooks Jensen
HT2342 - The Illusion of Detail
2 minutes Posted Aug 7, 2025 at 4:00 am.
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As I sit here looking across the backyard at the edge of the wild, I know that if I walked closer and closer, pulled out my magnifying glass or microscope, that with every step along the way I would reveal more and smaller detail. In a photograph, however, if we get too close and magnify too much our image dissolves into ink dots or grains of silver. In photography there is no detail, there's only the illusion of detail.