Trees in fall colors, Zion National Park, Utah
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas.It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams
A new Series
This essay is the introduction to a new series of essays whose focus is composition. As it stands right now this series will feature 8 essays, as follows:
1 - Introduction to composition (which you are reading right now)
2 - The traditional rules of composition
3 - The untraditional rules of composition
4 - Composing with color
5-Composing with Light
6 - Composing in black and white
7 - The importance of the image borders
8 –The Importance of knowing your photographic locations
This new series is related to my previous series of essays that dealt with inspiration, creativity, vision and personal style as well as to the essays before that in which I discuss the differences between how we see and how the camera sees. All these essays are available on this site and can be accessed from the Briot’s View ...
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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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