Tips To Find Your Photographic Style
One of the biggest questions that photographers struggle to answer is: what is your photography style? and the Tips To Find Your Photographic Style!
Even after years of practicing and trying every style with your photography lens, you might still be confused about the style that reflects your artistic inspiration. The onlookers often appreciate a profound picture for its beauty and mistake it for the quality of the photography equipment used to capture it.
A photographer standing against neon lights in the background
While that's partly true, the equipment itself can't share all the praise because it's largely the artist's eye that sees the details and captures it. But to develop that eye for beauty, you need to expose yourself to other forms of art and other artists.
Photography is an art, and those who are passionate about it are artists. It’s not easy to search for your true calling. Here are some ways to find it in photography.
Don't compare with others.
This is the worst thing you can do to yourself and your art. Don't compare your work to that of other photographers. If you’re looking at someone else’s style and wishing to have it for yourself, it can never be yours. You can only find inspiration in others, not your style.
Constant comparisons butcher your photography instincts and forever shoves it into the shadows. You don’t want the originality of your photographic style to be overshadowed by a competitor. Cherish what’s yours before expecting others to appreciate the beauty in it.
Don’t Plagiarize
This goes for artists such as photographers, as much as content creators. Stealing someone else’s style and calling it your own is stealing someone’s intellectual property. Besides, stealing it won’t ever help your photography because it’ll never reflect you.
If you're at a loss of ideas, explore the options you find in other photographers' works and mull over them. Find a way to personalize them and add to them elements that are true to you. You'll find an object, scene or mood that you're drawn to capture in your photography, and when you do, that'll be your style.
Practise Daily
With all things said, it’s important to acknowledge that finding your style is hard. There are no two ways about it. And to find it, you need to work hard. Take your camera out, fit on different lenses, play with the settings, and keep at it.
Not every picture will come out looking beautiful, but there's beauty in trying to get there. You might have to take ten different shots of the same object in a different light, but one of them will surely be the perfect one. You have to keep trying until you capture that one.
And if you're only starting your career in photography and need inspiration, check out my photography page. You might find a painting or picture on my photography page that reflects your aesthetic too, and when you do, you can place it in your home to look at it now and then until your style dawns on you.
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