Loading...
Alain has: 213 articles
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.

1 White Sands Folio P14 800

Projects Part 4:
Project Statement

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

August 11, 2016

·

13 minutes read


3 H6T3042 FS Flat 2 600

Projects Part 3 of 4 - 
Projects and Creativity

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes Art is knowing which ones to keep Scott Adams 1 – Introduction In the two previous parts of...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

July 5, 2016

·

18 minutes read


CF023943 white

Projects Part 2 - Mini-Projects

The ability to simplify means being able to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. David Bresler 1 – Introduction This is part...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

June 1, 2016

·

19 minutes read


2 All the prints in the White Sands Folio 600

Projects Part 1 - 
Why Projects Are Important

Projects Part 1 Why Projects are Important The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

May 6, 2016

·

24 minutes read


4 Collage 4 FS 600

Merging Images - Part 3: From Pre to Post Visualization

Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

April 6, 2016

·

20 minutes read


1 CF023886 Pano Final 800

Merging images 
in Lightroom and Photoshop CC 2015 
Part 2: Optimizing The Image

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce 1 – Introduction In my previous essay we saw...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

February 19, 2016

·

16 minutes read


1 Death Valley Collage 4 2 4x5 Final

Merging images 
in Lightroom and Photoshop CC 2015

I closed my eyes so I could see. Paul Gauguin 1 – Introduction This essay describes how to create a collage, also referred to as...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

January 1, 2016

·

19 minutes read


10 El Tovar Collage 3 FS Final 800 Lines

How This Photograph Was Made: Grand Canyon Daytime Part 2: Let’s talk about composition

Good composition is like a suspension bridge – each line adds strength and takes none away. Robert Henri 1 – Introduction This is part two...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

·

November 13, 2015

·

16 minutes read