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Article: Your photographic style.
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- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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What Is a Style?
Imagine that a person not familiar with photography is given a mixed pile of ten Ansel Adams, ten Yousuf Karsh and ten Gerry Uelsmann photographs. He or she will have little trouble in sorting them correctly into three correct piles. That is because of the greatly different styles of these three photographers. Think of your own favorite top photographers. The results will generally be the same.
A photographer's style is a consistent, distinctive and recognizable combination of characteristic picture elements in a body of work that define a photographer's particular vision. In that sense it is a restriction of options--sometimes even a ...