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Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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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The Referent Part 4 - Creating Art

There are no mistakes in art, only attempts - and why that changes everything about how you create.
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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September 15, 2025

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7 minutes read


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The Referent Part 3 - What is Art?

Introduction At the end of the previous essay, I said that I needed to define what art is to continue exploring how the Referent applies...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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January 23, 2025

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12 minutes read


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The Referent Part 2 - Generalities

Introduction My previous essay laid the foundation for this new series focused on the concept of the Referent.  This second essay focuses on what are...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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December 14, 2024

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10 minutes read


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The Referent Part 1 - Introduction

Introduction This is the first essay in a new series about the Referent.  This new series builds on The Language of Art, my previous series...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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October 1, 2024

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9 minutes read


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The Language of Art Part 11: Levels of Abstraction in Art

Introduction This is the third essay on the subject of abstraction in art.  The first focused on abstraction in photography, the second on abstraction in...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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May 11, 2024

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12 minutes read


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The Language of Art - Part 9 - Levels Of Abstraction In Photography

Introduction My previous essay focused on defining the concept of abstraction in art and photography.  At the end of that essay, I mentioned that abstraction...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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February 1, 2024

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17 minutes read


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The Language of Art Part 8 - Abstraction

What Is Abstraction? Traditionally, abstraction is defined as a representation that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a reality, a representation for...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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December 16, 2023

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8 minutes read


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The Language of Art Part 7: Dialects and Manipulations

Introduction In my previous essay, we saw how main languages branch out into dialects.  We also saw that dialects are languages used by groups of...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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November 21, 2023

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13 minutes read