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How to Decide Which Photographs Are Keepersand Which Ones Are Not
Article and Photographs by: Alain Briot
Alain Briot is one of the most successful landscape photographers workingin the U.S. today. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris,has a Masters degree in Fine Art, and is currently working on his Phd.
1 — Keepers or Not Keepers?
Keepers. A photographer’s term for photographs we like enough to keep them in our permanent files and print them.
But how do you decide which photographs are good enough to be kept around or good enough to be shown to others, printed or exhibited? I receive numerous emails asking me this very question. It seems that many who ask this question believe there is some sort of infallible test which allows photographers in the know to somehow “weed out” the bad photographs and select the good ones, without faltering, without hesitating, knowing exactly how successful any given image will be with the public.
Well, let me star...

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Alain Briot creates fine art photographs, teaches workshops and offers DVD tutorials on composition, raw conversion, optimization, printing and marketing. Alain is the author of Mastering Landscape Photography, Mastering Photographic Composition and Marketing Fine Art Photography. All 3 books are available from Alain’s website as well as from most bookstores. You can find more information about Alain's work, writings and tutorials as well as subscribe to Alain’s Free Monthly Newsletter on his <a href="http://www.beautiful-landscape.com/">website</a>. You will receive over 40 essays in PDF format, including chapters from Alain’s books, when you subscribe.
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