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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.

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Vision Part 1- From Passion to Vision

Photography, as a powerful mediumof expression and communications,offers an infinite variety of perception,interpretation and execution.Ansel Adams 1 - IntroductionPhotography is a passion.  However this passion...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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March 8, 2013

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10 minutes read


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Photoshop CS6-Alains Favorite Features

1 – Introduction Photoshop is now over 20 years old.  This makes it a mature and feature rich software package.  CS6 is an important update...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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January 20, 2013

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14 minutes read


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Color Harmonies-4-Cool, Warm, Split, Tetradic and Square

byAlain Briot  1- Cool Colors Dominance harmonyIn a Cool Colors Dominance harmony we use colors that have a cool quality. These include blues, violets and greens...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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December 29, 2012

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8 minutes read


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Color Harmonies-3-Analogous and Triadic

1 - The Analogous Color Harmony This month we are continuing my series of essays on the Subject of Color Harmonies.  If you have not...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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November 1, 2012

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4 minutes read


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Color Harmonies-2-Complementary

1 - Why use color harmonies ?I use color harmonies because the majority of my images are about form and color.  Working with this framework...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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October 3, 2012

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8 minutes read


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Using Color Harmonies in Photography - 1 - Monochromatic

by Alain Briot 1 – Introduction: The nine color harmonies  In order to create a specific color palette for a photograph, colors need to be organized. ...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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September 10, 2012

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4 minutes read


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Why Personal Style is Important

Just being at a fantastic location at the best time for the light are no longer enough to create unique images.  One has to have...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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July 30, 2012

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6 minutes read


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Creating Meaningful Photographs

1 -  Introduction I believe that that in order to make meaningful photographs, learning the art of seeing and vision is as important as learning...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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June 24, 2012

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11 minutes read