Yesterday we visited Michael Stoyanov’s gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Michael is a friend and we own six of his paintings. Here are some photographs taken during our visit: Natalie and Michael. We brought a small painting we purchased a while ago and Michael framed it for us. Natalie admiring Michael’s ‘Masterpiece.’ Read my book,…Continue reading A visit to Michael Stoyanov’s Gallery
Category: Art
Sketching
A new Sketching Gallery is available at this link. http://beautiful-landscape.com/Portfolios-Sketching.html This gallery features sketches I created over the past couple of months and photographs of Natalie and I sketching. The September 2011 Print of the month features one of my favorite sketches from this period. You can see it at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Print-of-the-month-102.html
About Reflections
In this blog Alain Briot shares his reflections on the many aspects of Fine Art Photography. Alain addresses Fine Art photography from three different perspectives: artistic, technical and marketing. Alain also writes about success in photography. These reflections expand upon Alain’s other writings which have so far been published in 2 books: Mastering Landscape Photography and Mastering Composition,…Continue reading About Reflections
Essay Ideas
1 – What cameras say about me 2 – Showing you how I do what I do How would you like to take a cooking class from a cook who doesn’t cook? I wouldn’t. 3 – Inspiration “No amount of technology can make up for lack of inspiration” Alain Briot 4 – Business and Art You…Continue reading Essay Ideas
Focusing on Quality, not quantity
Focusing on Quality, not quantity A reader had a question about my essay titled What is Fine Art Photography? This question is below and my response is next: Question: As always a lot of helpful insights Alain. Although I am a little puzzled by your statement: “Creating fine art photographs is not about trying to…Continue reading Focusing on Quality, not quantity
July 2011 Print of the Month
July 4th The July Print of the Month is available at this link. Print of the Month Prices will increase by $100 next month. July is therefore the last opportunity to invest at the current prices. This will be the 3rd price increase this year. These increases are due to increased demand for my work.…Continue reading July 2011 Print of the Month
The Counter-Intuitive Aspects of Photography
The Counter-Intuitive Aspects of Photography A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and…Continue reading The Counter-Intuitive Aspects of Photography
Not teaching from the Book
Not teaching from the Book It’s always been upsetting to me to take a class from a teacher who did nothing else but teach from the book. I’ve always thought “what’s the point? I can read the book myself! Why take a class just to have him read his book to me?” So when…Continue reading Not teaching from the Book
Of Cakes and Plugins
White Sands Black & White I recently published a short essay about the photograph above on Luminous-Landscape.com (you can read the essay at this link). This essay brought a question about which plugin I used to convert this photograph to black and white. Fact is, I don’t use any ‘creative’ plugins. When it comes to the…Continue reading Of Cakes and Plugins
Lensbaby Composer
These photographs were taken with the Lensbaby Composer at the Speedworld Dragstrip in Surprise, Arizona. I used the f/8 Aperture ring for all of them. Alain Briot April 2011 Subscribe to Reflections: Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner