HT2610 - There Will Always Be One More Tweak
From LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process by Brooks Jensen
May 2, 2026 · 3 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenge of knowing when to stop tweaking a photograph and the pursuit of perfection in art.
HT2610 - There Will Always Be One More Tweak Pablo Picasso famously said that the trick in painting is knowing when to stop. I think this is true in photography as well. There will always be one more tweak we can make to an image to improve it. And when we think we have it perfect, with the passage of time, we'll realize there is one more thing we could do. Ad infinitum. Perfection will always elude us because it's a constantly moving target. At some point, we must be willing to accept "good enough" and let go of the pursuit of perfection. This RSS feed includes only the most recent seven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2500 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online . Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the creative process .
People in this episode
Host: Brooks Jensen
Topics covered
- photography
- creative process
- perfection
- art
- tweaking images
Keywords
- photography
- Pablo Picasso
- tweaks
- perfection
- creative process
- art
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