Things I wish I had known at the beginning.
Jun 20, 2020 22:05:34 #
"Creating your own style is one of the most important things in photography. Once you find a shooting style and editing preference, you can create images that speak to you."
Sam Elkins
Sam Elkins
Jun 20, 2020 22:10:10 #
Sometimes I create images that I believe/hope might speak to others also. chase
Jun 20, 2020 22:12:32 #
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Jun 20, 2020 22:18:36 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Don't fear to be unique, you'll be just like everyone else.
Yep
Jun 20, 2020 23:04:17 #
chase4 wrote:
Sometimes I create images that I believe/hope might speak to others also. chase
Jun 20, 2020 23:15:32 #
Finding your own style is important. But I suggest joining a camera club that does critiques so you learn! I look back at my older images and cringe.
Jun 20, 2020 23:15:41 #
You say so yet give no guidance. Some poor souls assume breaking the rules produces "your own style," when it doesn't. Or they go to photography school and learn the ropes along with the skill of intellectualizing photographs, when in fact a photograph has its own visual voice apart from words.
One sure way does exist for gaining one's own style in doing photography: Teach yourself. By this means, you will learn what you need to know to express yourself as a photographer.
Your style will cometh by a natural progression at your pace.
Consider also that like every other art form, photography at a higher level involves intelligence, intuition, talent, determination, dedication, artistic leaning, and other suitable qualities. If you have an eye, then you will discipline it for best results.
One day you or another may say of your work that it looks like no other.
Meanwhile, I advise studying composition, exposure, and the importance of subject including intention as the path to worthy photography.
One sure way does exist for gaining one's own style in doing photography: Teach yourself. By this means, you will learn what you need to know to express yourself as a photographer.
Your style will cometh by a natural progression at your pace.
Consider also that like every other art form, photography at a higher level involves intelligence, intuition, talent, determination, dedication, artistic leaning, and other suitable qualities. If you have an eye, then you will discipline it for best results.
One day you or another may say of your work that it looks like no other.
Meanwhile, I advise studying composition, exposure, and the importance of subject including intention as the path to worthy photography.
Jmcurrysr wrote:
"Creating your own style is one of the most important things in photography. Once you find a shooting style and editing preference, you can create images that speak to you."
Sam Elkins
Sam Elkins
Jun 20, 2020 23:37:42 #
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which images to PhotoShop.
Jun 21, 2020 00:55:06 #
anotherview wrote:
You say so yet give no guidance. Some poor souls ... (show quote)
If you have the eye? What if you don't. Are you doomed to be a failure as a photographer?
Jun 21, 2020 02:43:57 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you have the eye? What if you don't. Are you doomed to be a failure as a photographer?
It's like not having an ear for music but still wanting to be a musician. You can read all the books on music theory you can get your hands on, understand how music works, but you will never really be a great musician.
Jun 21, 2020 06:31:09 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which images to PhotoShop.
Does that make Photoshop the real "artist"??
Jun 21, 2020 06:42:20 #
Jmcurrysr wrote:
"Creating your own style is one of the most important things in photography. Once you find a shooting style and editing preference, you can create images that speak to you."
Sam Elkins
Sam Elkins
Interesting thought.
I never worried about a "Style". I do what I like.
And see no particular style but composed in the way that appeals to me and the subject dictates that.
Jun 21, 2020 07:00:36 #
Jeffcs
Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
RWebb76 wrote:
Finding your own style is important. But I suggest joining a camera club that does critiques so you learn! I look back at my older images and cringe.
I also belong to a camera club this is only partially true in camera club competitions Generally there will be a paid judge and with one opinion will critique the images and not always serve the membership with meaningful information while one judge may like portraits and not landscape another prefers cuite little pets and your landscape gets poor score i have seen too many time beginners get frustrated and quit It’s a system that needs improvement. Joining a camera club is good in that like minded people can get together discuss photography related items and go on shoots together the best thing we do is have several “critique nights” but remember it’s an opinion.
Jun 21, 2020 07:15:33 #
Architect1776 wrote:
Interesting thought.
I never worried about a "Style". I do what I like.
And see no particular style but composed in the way that appeals to me and the subject dictates that.
I never worried about a "Style". I do what I like.
And see no particular style but composed in the way that appeals to me and the subject dictates that.
I was told by an instructor once about this style thing. I kept looking at my images and could not see any particular 'style' but I did like my images. I then took a workshop with John Shaw who is a very accomplished nature photographer. When I went to his website I saw many images that I liked very much but did not see anything that I would call a particular 'style'. When I asked him directly what he felt his style was his answer was "I don't have any particular style." After hearing that I no longer worried about having a 'style' and concentrated more on each image as I was creating it.
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