Creating Artistic Photographs Part 10: The Narrow-Minded Rules of the Photo Police
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No-one will ever agree on anything in the art world.
Joe Saward
Preface
The corona virus situation is changing our lives forcing us to takes precautions in order to be safe. The best approach is to stay home and minimize outside contact as much as possible. While we each have to find the approach that works best for us one thing is for sure: processing photographs at home is safe because it carries no risk of exposure.
For this reason, I decided to publish the first of a two-part series of an essay titled The Rules of the Photo Police. The jest of this essay is simple: dogmatic rules hurt creativity. Creativity is an excellent way to fight back the negative feelings ...
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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.
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