Seek not perfection for you can never reach it. -Salvador Dali Flare is Beautiful 1 - Introduction: constructing images I construct images. This is what I do. I don’t just capture raw photographs, process them and convert them. I alter them, warp them, and reformat them. I change their color palette, I dramatically modify their contrast and I use every digital means a … [Read more...]
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 website. You will receive over 40 essays in PDF format, including chapters from Alain’s books, when you subscribe.
What is Personal style?
1 - Introduction In photography our personal style is the visual expression of our personal taste and personality. Your personal style defines what your photographs and your prints look like. Our style is characterized both by what we capture in the field and by the work we do to the image in the studio. It is characterized by the choices we make in the field and the … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 9 – Printing on the Epson SC-P600
1 - About printing and printers Printing is the least popular digital photography activity today. We capture a lot of digital photographs, we process a large number of them and we post many images on our websites, blogs and social media pages. Unfortunately we print a very small number of these images. As I wrote in my previous essay, Printing and Traditions, making prints in … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art , Part 8: My Favorite Printing Papers
The outcome of all your efforts is ink on paper, therefore you better use the best ink and the best paper. Ansel Adams, paraphrased and adapted to digital printing. 1 - Introduction I decided to follow my series about Printing in Lightroom with an essay about my favorite printing papers. It is a logical continuation. After writing about printing I wanted to talk about the … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 7: Printing from Lightroom Part C – Color Management
1 - Introduction: about printers If papers are important, something I discussed in my previous essay, printers are just as important. After all, it is the printer that lays the ink that goes onto the paper. As such the printer is the worker, the intermediary between what we see on the screen and what we get on the paper. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you l … [Read more...]
