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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 13-Photographer's Block

by Alain Briot The way to get out of photographer’s block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. Austin Kleon 1 - Introduction Expressing our...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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November 19, 2014

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10 minutes read


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Vision 12-Photographic competitions

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. Elbert Hubbard 1 - Introduction My previous essay focused...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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October 21, 2014

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14 minutes read


A GC Rainbow

Vision 11-Critiquing photographs

by Alain Briot He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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September 30, 2014

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18 minutes read


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Uwe Steinmueller

Publishers Note .  . . We are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend Uwe Steinmueller.  He was a pioneer in an educational photographer...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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August 19, 2014

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11 minutes read


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Vision 10-My Vision

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. Christopher Morley 1 - Introduction At this point in...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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August 8, 2014

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11 minutes read


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Canon 8-15 fisheye lens

1 - Introduction This essay is about a specific lens, namely the Canon EF 8-15, f4 USM fisheye. However, it is also about expressing a...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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June 8, 2014

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11 minutes read


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Matting

The Why & How of Matting Photographs A Tutorial byAlain Briot Why Mat Your Photographs? Matting consists of mounting a photograph to a mat board...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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April 23, 2014

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13 minutes read


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Vision Part 9-Why photography projects are important

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust Preface I am now returning to my series...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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April 18, 2014

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21 minutes read