How to find your photographic style

Wednesday 5 June 2024, 17:17 by Elja Trum | 2,461 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

What is your style as a photographer? You often want to have your own recognisable style. So that when someone sees one of your photos, they immediately know it is probably yours. In this video, Alex Kilbee explores how you can discover your style.

According to Alex, you can discover your own style by printing out your favourite photos from the past year and laying them next to each other on the floor. Look at your photos and see whether anything stands out. Certain things that keep recurring, for example.

The next step is to look at photographers who take photos that you get excited about. Look at the photos they take. For example, buy a photobook by the photographer in question. What do you like about their work? Why?

How can you include those elements in your own photos? Without copying their work, of course. In your own way.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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