Photography Style Challange: Day 3
Other People, Other Photographers
In today's live training, I'll explain how other people, such as your followers, friends, and family members, influence your choices when creating photos and why they are the reason for your slow progress when developing a photography style.
I'll also cover how some photographers you see on Instagram create an Instagram account in a false style. It's always good to know the difference between a true style and one that someone wants you to believe is their style
Exercise 3:
How are you doing with yesterday's step? Before you continue, you'll need to narrow the mood board down to about 20 photos.
Once you're down to your last 20, I'd like you to consider them a collection. Make notes of the similarities, as you did with your images a few days ago. You can download the notepaper to fill in again if you want.
An Extra Exercise:
I've compiled a group of Instagram accounts to underline today's session. I've found three accounts, and when you look at them, you may notice that one of them has a distinct photography style and the other two don't, even though the photographs may mislead you into believing that they do.
Okay, so let's go:
This first one includes many dark elements, which might mislead you into thinking that this photographer has a style because all her photos look similar. However, they are all taken in very similar rooms, but there is little repetition in the photography methods, and the photographer doesn't appear to use style elements when photographing.
This photographer has an account that displays photos taken in the same way from different scenes that are very similar. But this is not quite a photography style. If you went outside and took a bunch of photos that each had either tall flowers or grasses and placed the horizon in the exact same spot each time, then your photos would look like these, without you having to think too much about what you're doing. But this is not a photography style because there aren't enough style elements in each photo.
This last account includes lots of photos that look like the same photographer took them. The main subject is roughly the same size in each image. The colours are repetitive. The photos either have a softness or plainish backgrounds that have a similar effect. The colours are quite strong, and the luminosity is often very similar.