As artists we must find those who believe in us, and in whom we believe, and band together for support, encouragement and protection Julia Cameron 1 - Introduction Just like I did for my previous series of essays on abstract landscape photography, I decided to separate the examples for this series on Triptychs in two different essays, one for color examples and one for … [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.
Triptychs Part 1 of 3: Fundamentals
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter Bernard Baruch 1 - Introduction This is the first of a series of three essays on triptychs. This new series builds upon the concepts established in my previous essays, in particular, my just-completed series on abstract landscape photographs. You can read my previous … [Read more...]
Abstraction Part 6 – Black and White Examples
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown 1 - Introduction This essay features a variety of examples of black and white abstract photographs. These examples are presented by categories of images. These categories are organized by subject. For each subject I describe the type of abstraction that I used and the … [Read more...]
The 2017 Zion Fine Art Photography Summit
Introduction Each year for the past 15 years l have offered an event called the Fine Art Photography Summit. This event used to be organized jointly by Uwe Steinmueller and myself. When Uwe passed away in 2014 I continued organizing the Summit with my wife Natalie. The goal of the Summit is to offer an event that covers all the different aspects of fine art photography: … [Read more...]
Abstraction Part 5 – Color Examples
If I choose abstraction over reality it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. Robert Brault 1 - Introduction This essay features a variety of examples of color abstract photographs. These examples are presented by categories of images. These categories are organized by subject. For each subject the type of abstraction is listed. This is the first of 2 essays … [Read more...]
