The importance of developing your photographic style 2011

The importance of developing your photographic style

A.K.A. Dominick Reed

Available for sexy loving 2011

By Mr. Flibble

What constitutes a style?

Why bother?

How do you develop one?

Then what?

How would I describe my style?

So is a style important?

Techniques to ensure you don’t develop a big head 2011

Tonight

Next month at CD

Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ 2011

What constitutes a style?

It’s a combination of lots of things Camera

Lens & composition

Subject matter

Environment

Processing

Photographer

Film, Digital, Lomo, Polaroid, Pinhole, Scanner

Macro, Wangle, Telephoto, 50mm, fisheye

Inside, Outside, Studio, Underwater, Country, Lighting (natural or artificial)

Dodging & Burning, B&W, Photoshop, Creative destruction

Emotions, Influences, Agenda

Exposure Depth of field, Over and Under Exposure, Blurry, Sharp

...

Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)

Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)

Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)

Scandybars.tumblr.com

Is this a style?

Scandybars.tumblr.com

Scandybars.tumblr.com

Brooke Shaden - The perspective of make believe people

Brooke Shaden - The day I caught clouds

Brooke Shaden – Running from wind

The daily struggle 2011

Why bother?

I’m not sure you get a choice

Every man and his dog has a decent camera nowadays

A style separates you from the masses

Expressing who you are

To win business, and to lose business

Enriching the world - being an inspiration

To create something recognisable as you

The unwelcome welcome 2011

How do you develop a style?

17-35 Wide Angle Canon 20D 100mm Macro

2006

Don’t make me paint it 2006

Rose in grey 2006

Louvre pyramid 2006

So she wants another kid... 2006

A break in the April showers 2006

Divining for water 2006

Conspiracy to commit bloodshed 2006

Contemplating over-sized furniture 2006

Proof that beef tastes good 2006

Need for weed 2006 Ninjas strike again

Shelf portrait 2006

Being vacuumed up yet again... 2006

When George learns to stand up, Millie quite sensibly runs... 2007

When effort is just too much effort 2007

You’ve got me the Mousinator 3000? 2008

Spam 2008

I was going through a learning phase

Trying all types of subjects

Trying flashes

Learning Photoshop

Realising I still had a lot to learn... so...

Finding angles and compositions

Learning what I actually enjoyed doing

...then I started a 365

And in the darkness bind them 2010

Resolutions 2010

I can fix this... I think... 2010

Well I never knew that... 2010

There’s a disco in my washing machine again... 2010

I see alive people... 2010

When super powers are suddenly less super... 2010

“Hey, I love your self portraits”

“You really make my day”

“Where do you get all your self portrait ideas?”

And then I realised I had a style...

“I look forward to my daily Flibble”

I’m getting top grades at Airhead school 2010

Wolverine’s brother wasn’t quite so successful 2010

Even ninjas have to start somewhere 2010

Happy(ish) Halloween 2010

The moment it occurred to me you could love Marmite too much 2010

Then what?

I think you start to mature your style

Learning, expanding

Expressing what you really wanted to convey

Refining, tweaking, exaggerating

Elevating, inspiring

...And stupidly I started a 2nd 365

Telephone call for Mr. Flibble 2011

You might think I’m crazy 2011

The apple of my eye got stuck 2011

They locked me away and said I was mad 2011

Stealing your soul piece by piece 2011

And you shall know pain 2011

Like a puppet on a string 2011

Remember kids... Sticky tape isn’t for playing with... 2011

The abduction 2011

Attack of the 500ft Flibble 2011

One day, someone would surely bite... 2011

How would I describe my style?

This is still difficult for me

Creative self-portraiture

Super close wide angle distortions

Darkly tinged naivety with a ray of hope

Bittersweet Humour

Photoshoppy

Marmite

Eagerly anticipating the wet tea shirt competition 2011

So is a style important?

I would say yes

It makes you describable

It’s the first step to being discovered

It helps to take your photography to the next level

I also think it’s inevitable

Nothing to see here... 2011

Thank you! www.flickr.com/photos/flibble