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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde Preface This essay is about the shift from the film paradigm to the digital paradigm in landscape photography.  It starts with remarks about my personal experience, continues with a discussion about paradigms in general, and eventually discusses the film to a digital paradigm shift. If this was a book there would be no purpose for this preface. Book readers expect writers to take their time getting to the subject.  However, this being an online essay there is an assumption that the writer will get to the point right away.  Therefore I am adding this preface to let you know that I will talk about photo...

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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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