Photography Podcast with Alain and Natalie Briot

This is a discussion between myself, Natalie and Venus Kondos during which we discuss a photography technique that I call "Landscape Blurs". I wrote two essays about blurs, My 2 essays on Landscape Blurs are available by subscribing to my Free newsletter. The subscribe link is at the top of the pages on my website. You receive a link and password for the download area immediately after you subscribe to my newsletter. The 2 essays are in PDF format with illustrations.\ My Landscape Blurs essays and technique have been very popular and I am publishing this podcast to provide further support and insight on this unique technique.

The July 2009 Fine Art Photography review is now available. The subject is a photograph taken by Max Hertelendy. The review is in movie format. Keep in mind you can submit your own photographs for review at any time by emailing them to me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com Keep your image files at 700 pixels maximum dimmention (width or height) and save them in Jpeg format. Full instructions on submitting images, as well as a description of the review process, are available at the link above. Best regards, Alain Briot

This is the May 2009 Fine Art Photography review. The subject is a photograph taken by Susan Silberberg Peirce. The review is in movie format and iPod format. Keep in mind you can submit your own photographs for review at any time by emailing them to me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com Keep your image files at 700 pixels maximum dimmension (width or height) and save them in Jpeg format. Full instructions on submitting images, as well as a description of the review process, are available at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Photography-Review-Home1.html Best regards, Alain Briot

In this podcast Alain and Natalie Briot discuss the importance of marketing your photographs if you want to generate sales with your photography. This podcast is also an introduction to a major update of Alain Briot's Marketing Mastery Workshop on DVD. This update is free to all Marketing Mastery Workshop on DVD owners.

This is the April 2009 Fine Art Photography review. The subject is a photograph taken by Daniel Rice. The review is in movie format. Keep in mind you can submit your own photographs for review at any time by emailing them to me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com Keep your image files at 700 pixels maximum dimmension (width or height) and save them in Jpeg format. Full instructions on submitting images, as well as a description of the review process, are available at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Photography-Review-Home.html Best regards, Alain

This is the February 2009 Fine Art Photography review. The subject is two photograph taken by Allen Lenth. In this review I explain which of the two I like best and why. The review is in movie format. Keep in mind you can submit your own photographs for review at any time by emailing them to me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com Keep your image files at 700 pixels maximum dimmension (width or height) and save them in Jpeg format. Full instructions on submitting images, as well as a description of the review process, are available at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Photography-Review-Home.html Best regards, Alain

What makes an artist successful? What are the qualities and the knowledge necessary to succeed in art? These questions are particularly interesting when asked in the context of the current economic recession. What makes someone successful is not necessarily tied to economic condition. Instead, it is tied to personal qualities and knowledge that one uses towards reaching specific goals. In this hour-long audio recording, Alain Briot, Natalie Briot and Venus Kondos explore what makes artists successful and discuss at length the subject of Success in Art. If your interest is learning how to succeed as an artist, or if you are simply curious as to why some artists succeed and not others, you do not want to miss listening to this podcast!

This podcast is a review of the 2008 Bryce Canyon Fine Art Printing Summit presented as a conversation between Alain Briot, Natalie Briot and Venus Kondos

This is the December 2008 Fine Art Photography review. The subject is two versions of the same photograph taken by Bob Fields, one in color the other in black and white. In this review I explain which of the two I like best and why. The review is in movie format and iPod format. Keep in mind you can submit your own photographs for review at any time by emailing them to me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com Keep your image files at 700 pixels maximum dimmension (width or height) and save them in Jpeg format. Full instructions on submitting images, as well as a description of the review process, are available at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Photography-Review-Home.html Best regards, Alain

This is the November 2008 Fine Art Photography review. The subject is a photograph of Monument Valley taken by Chris Sandberg. The review is in movie format and iPod format. Keep in mind you can submit your own photographs for review at any time by emailing them to me at alain@beautiful-landscape.com Keep your image files at 700 pixels maximum dimmension (width or height) and save them in Jpeg format. Full instructions on submitting images, as well as a description of the review process, are available at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Photography-Review-Home.html Best regards, Alain

This is the audio recording of a presentation I gave on the subject of "Finding the Personal in Art for artists and collectors". This presentation looks at how we can find the personal in art as artists and as art collectors. My approach in this presentation is unique since so far I have looked at art only from the perspective of the artist. Looking at art from both the artist and the collector's perspective reveals that both have to contend with similar issues.

This is an introduction and audio description of the new Composition Mastery Workshop on DVD. This podcast describes the central concept behind the Composition Mastery Workshop on DVD. The Composition Mastery Workshop on DVD is aimed at helping you rediscover composition. Composition is not what you thought it to be. It is much more than organizing objects in a frame. A limited time special offer is available at this link: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Articles-CD-Mastery-Composition-1.html

My new Composition Mastery Workshop on DVD is now available. Over one year in the making it focuses on composition through the study of the 29 separate steps that I follow to create my fine art landscape photographs. In this workshop on DVD, instead of approaching composition the "traditional" way, which is to focus on the rules of composition (the golden rule, the rule of thirds, etc.) I approach composition as being everything that affects the contents of your photographs. In this context I look at the palette that you select, the light you prefer, the contrast level you find most attractive, your choice of color, black and white or color monochrome, your knowledge of natural events and natural light, your favorite lenses and equipment, your research of specific locations and much more (You can see the complete list at http://beautiful-landscape.com/Articles-CD-Mastery-Composition-1.html You can watch a sample movie from the Composition Mastery DVD on this podcast. We also have a special offer for this DVD at this link as well as a quicktime version of the sample movie: http://beautiful-landscape.com/Articles-CD-Mastery-Composition-1.html

This is the February 2007 Fine Art Photography review. The subject is a photograph taken by Robert Cook. The review is in movie format.

This is part 3 of a series of 3 podcasts on inspiration. In this episode Natalie talks about what inspires her.