Artistic Validation The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. Emile Zola 1 - Introduction How do you achieve artistic validation? How do you know if your work is legitimate and recognized as art? These questions came to the forefront during a recent one on one session when I asked one of my students what were his long-term … [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 3 of 3: Black and White Examples
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. Tao Te Ching 1 – Introduction This is the third and final part of this three-parts series on triptychs. After looking at the fundamental aspects of triptychs in part one and at color triptych examples in part two we are now going to look at black and white triptych examples. This essay consists of six series of … [Read more...]
Triptychs Part 2 of 3: Color Examples
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...]
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...]
