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...]
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.
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...]
Abstraction Part 4 – Suspending Disbelief
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it’s got to be organized. David Hockney 1 - Introduction I originally intended this essay to feature examples of abstract photographs. However, while writing the introduction I realized that I still had a number of things to say about abstraction that I did not have the opportunity to cover in the three … [Read more...]
Abstraction Part 3 Abstraction, Art and Documentation
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Paul Gauguin 1 - Introduction In this essay, part three of a four parts series about creating abstract photographs, I want to take a look at the different goals we can have for creating photographs. The purpose of this endeavor is to bring clarity to our motivation as photographers and to outline the differences between … [Read more...]
