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Credibility in art is not tied to how far you depart from reality. Alain Briot In 2013 Michael Reichmann published an essay titled The Art Of Fooling Around In this essay Michael made the point that photographers are shy when it comes to expressing themselves through their photographs.  In Michael’s opinion this is due to the desire to have their photographs taken seriously by the photographic community. In other words photographers want their work to have credibility and for for them having credibility means not Photoshopping their images. In the beginning of digital photography this meant not Photoshopping at all. Now that digital has become the norm and that everyone uses it, it means no...

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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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