Creating a Unique Photography Style

Posted: February 14, 2017

Camera's have become very commonplace in today's world. It seems that everyone is taking pictures of everything. Creating your own unique style is important to help you stand out. Learn to help make your images stand out from the crowd. Leanne Cole, contributor to Digital Photography School, helps you learn to create a unique style. In today’s world, everyone has a camera. It may be as simple as the camera on their phones, but they still have one. This means that millions, maybe billions of people are taking photos every day. What does that mean for you? It means you have to compete with all those to make your images stand out. You have to find a way to be different, but how? The best way is to develop a style that is uniquely yours. When people look at your work they instantly know it is yours, or someone trying to copy it. Your style is how you become known and how you make yourself stand apart.

What does having a photographic style mean?

Basically, that you do something to your images that make them different, whether it is done when the shot is taken or in post-processing, or maybe both. Whatever it is that you do, you want people to know straight away that the image is yours before they see the name. There should be a similarity between all your images and they look like they belong together. It almost goes against the grain of what humans are like and our need to conform. If you want your images to stand out you have to find a way to make them different to what everyone else is doing. Think about how you can work that is not the same. It can be about photographing the same thing, but you do it your way. Read the entire article How to Develop a Unique Style for Your Photography on Digital Photography School.