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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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Creating Artistic Photographs - 
Variations on a Raw File

Art is an abstraction. Paul Gauguin 1 – Introduction At sunset light takes on a unique quality. The sun is low and its horizontal rays...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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July 22, 2019

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15 minutes read


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Landscape & Environment

Creating Artistic Landscape Photographs:
 Part 2: Along a Canyon Wall

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas 1 – Introduction: projects and mini-series I regularly work on projects...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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June 10, 2019

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14 minutes read


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Landscape & Environment

Creating Artistic Landscape Photographs Part 1: Flare is Beautiful

Seek not perfection for you can never reach it. -Salvador Dali 1 – Introduction: constructing images I construct images. This is what I do. I...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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April 29, 2019

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15 minutes read


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Photographer Profiles

What is Personal style?

1 – Introduction In photography our personal style is the visual expression of our personal taste and personality. Your personal style defines what your photographs...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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March 21, 2019

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13 minutes read


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Camera & Technology

Turning Photographs Into Art
 Part 9 - Printing on the Epson SC-P600

1 – About printing and printers Printing is the least popular digital photography activity today. We capture a lot of digital photographs, we process a...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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January 29, 2019

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17 minutes read


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Techniques

Turning Photographs Into Art
, Part 8: My Favorite Printing Papers

The outcome of all your efforts is ink on paper, therefore you better use the best ink and the best paper. Ansel Adams, paraphrased and...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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January 3, 2019

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21 minutes read


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Techniques

Turning Photographs Into Art Part 7: Printing from Lightroom Part C - Color Management

1 – Introduction: about printers If papers are important, something I discussed in my previous essay, printers are just as important.  After all, it is...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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December 13, 2018

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20 minutes read


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Techniques

Turning Photographs Into Art Part 6: Printing from Lightroom Part B - Templates and Soft Proofing

1 – Introduction It is seeing original prints from master photographers that inspired me to create my own photographs and learn how to print them as...
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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November 14, 2018

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18 minutes read