Developing your Style

So now it’s up to you to think about what you want to express and how you want to express it, which isn’t something that anyone else can teach you. Having a personal style doesn’t mean you have to be regarded as a groundbreaking, trend setting, field-altering artist. It’s a case of finding yourself in your chosen format and expressing yourself through that medium.

Remember that your style is a result of a series of choices about equipment, your personal background, how you approach the work, the subject matter and the environment in which you take your photographs. Consider which camera you are happiest working with, what your enthusiasms are, whether you want to capture work, for example, in a documentary style or a free artistic style and what you want the subject matter to be.

It’s up to you to consider this combination of choices in order to give you the best chance of developing a style that represents you as a photographer.