5 Tips on How Having a Photography Style will HELP YOU?

[@fujishoot]

I think perhaps many of my images do have a style, however i do not constrain my mind to work within those boundaries. I would get bored very quickly. Great vid 📸🙂

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thanks! You have a very good about getting bored. The point about restriction this way is definately not good.

[@mattisulanto]

Thanks for sharing! I can definitely recognize my own photos both in good and bad😀 I've shot so many great photos from a window or a balcony.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I agree that you have a style that can be recognized. I have seen mostly the good. Next time we meet I want to see the bad!

[@mattisulanto]

@@ForsgardPeter Thanks for the compliments. I'll do my best next time to share the worst😅

[@ForsgardPeter]

Looking forward to that!

[@wilfs1196]

Thanks Peter for the video & memories. Some of my best photos to this day were taken in Strasbourg on a stop during our Rhine riverboat cruise vacation. Still have a photo on my laptop screen. Will be there again next year & let the camera loose . Different camera now, but above all, better knowledge on how to use it properly.The Rhine will be a part of the trip with another river or two also.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Strasbourgh is a nice city. I hope I have a possibility to visit it again.

[@richardpriestley477]

Peter - a thought provoking subject which for me means that I have different styles dependent on the subject/ objectives etc.I like the ideas inherent in this issue and need to identify the objectives more !

[@don_at_large]

Great idea about getting a Hotel Room with Balcony. A style of street photography, where I don't have to be interrupted by people complaining about using a camera. Have noticed when I use small frame camera, like my Oly Pen e-p5, Canon M6mkii, or Canon M3, people tend to leave me alone. Buying my cameras used saves money. Am trying different cameras to see which camera gives me monochrome I like. Sony a6500 seems to be accepted by public also. Makes me look like a tourist, I guess. I really enjoy your tips.

[@bamsemh1]

Sadly most people see our style as cliché. So do as I do 😊 photograph what catches your attention. I don't care about what I photograph, the "rules" or the "right or wrong".

[@ForsgardPeter]

Styles can be a cliche, but not always. I agree that photographing what ever you feel like is sometimes good practise.

[@nikoskalog8862]

@@ForsgardPeter Styles include cliches, it is impossible not to, at least at a certain variable percentage. But, on the other hand, and rightfully so, cliches do not make a style.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I agree on that, cliches do not make a style.

[@Raist3db]

Great video Peter, thanks for making this video. I had a photography teacher that said this is one of the most important things if you are a commercial photographer- because you will be hired by that style you have.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I have heard the same and it applies especially in bigger markets. In local small markets that can be a bad thing.

[@Raist3db]

@@ForsgardPeter wow. Thats a perspective I did not consider - bigger vs smaller markets. I can think of something why the difference now that you mention it but in your experience why you think that is such? Never thought about that so thanks for pointing that out.

[@ForsgardPeter]

In Finland there are about 5.6 million people. There are a lot of cities in the world that has more people than whole Finland. There are much more potential customers alone in a big city like let's say London than in whole Finland. Let's have an example like a portrait photographer. Most portrait studios in Finland do also commercial photography for local busineses. There are not enough clients otherwise. There is just not enough people. When it comes to style there is the same problem. A strict style might mean less customers from a small amout of potential clients. A short answer, but you propably understand what I mean.

[@Raist3db]

@@ForsgardPeter Oh I get it. Thanks for sharing that perspective. I didn't think of that so I really appreciate sharing your experience here. Makes sense! I am from Puerto Rico myself. At one point, now now, PR had like 4 million people (!), now just about 3.2 million - on an island that is pretty much 110 miles (~180Km, west-east) by 40 miles (~64Km, north-south). I would imagine Finland once outside the city would be quite quite sparse. But apparently that doesn't stop you from having more Saunas than cars :-) Or so I heard :-). I need to visit sometime. Have an ex-coworker who is Finnish and looks like Twin Peaks-David Lynch has a following, along with being the place where the video games Alan Wake and Control come from. Anyhow, thanks again.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Yes I think there are more saunas than cars in Finland. :)

[@sylvainm.6516]

Very insightful, as usual! Thx Peter.

[@jbvertexx]

Very thought provoking video. Thank you. I think of your photographs as definitely having a distinct style. From what I've seen, you do very thought provoking candid environmental street photographs that are often of layered subject matter. You use reflections quite often, which conveys deep thought and draws me into the scene to a greater depth. I usually see a well composed street subject, which could stand on its own but you always have a human element, even if it's a human remnant (something left or an umbrella poking out of a doorway). I would characterize your style as indirect, thought provoking, melancholic, with an intricate connection between the subject and scene. Your settings are minimalist and dramatic. Compare this to Robin Wong, who I also enjoy, but his street photography is very much direct environmental portraiture. He captures faces wonderfully, and the background us usually very colorful, of complex visual interest and surrounds the subject. He makes art of every-day people with their expressions and composure in a setting that conveys their everyday life. I've never actually thought about this before, but your video has made me more aware of these different but amazing styles.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you very much for your thoughts. You are propably right about my style. Yes I agree that my style is totally different from Robins. We have quite different personalities and photograph in totally different culture.

[@elenaefriz]

Very interesting video, I often think about how to have my personal style, but then, when I look back to my photos, for example on Instagram, I can recognize that they have an homogeneity, even if the subjects are different, and that can be defined my style. I enjoy your videos, they are always a good inspiration to think about photography.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you very much.

[@borderlands6606]

A downside of digital photography is images can be endlessly tweaked, with little effort. Combined with a manufacturer's promise that their next camera will make our photos look "better", a photographer can shoot for years without ever settling on a consistent style that represents how they see the world.

[@nigelalexander1594]

I haven’t given much thought to style but I can see the plus points of developing a style mainly to add focus (ignore the pun!} to my photography rather than been to widespread with my topics, or on the other hand does it matter providing you enjoy what you do?

[@ForsgardPeter]

Not necessarily if you enjoy your photography. The enjoyment is the most important thing.

[@HighDefinitionVideo]

Love your work!

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@FierceSleepingDog]

I photograph what I think is interesting. I also have a way I post-process my photos. If there is a unique style there, so be it. I think I would rather have a style that is something that others see but that I don’t explicitly do. An unconscious style means I have no restrictions on my creativity.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Well said.

[@GeoffSimpsonCreative]

I don’t have a style thankfully

[@RikMaxSpeed]

I like your compositions, many of your photographs have two contrasting elements, far and near, or a person against a background. These are good photos! But personally I simply enjoy taking photos, of lots of subjects - maybe I haven’t found a style yet, or have many styles 🤣

[@ForsgardPeter]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@sebastianop.3052]

I recognise my pictures and I don't have a style, subject style o color style, must because how you said we like photograph different thing. And I think is not bad off course in platform like instagram is something can put you down but it happens many times when I like some photos and after a while scrolling down I get bored because nothing is different. Plus I think not having a style and experimenting is definitely a good thing and getting out of your comfort zone is where you get the best photos.

[@ForsgardPeter]

Well said. I have kind of gotten bored with Instagram. Very seldom anything that coughts my eye. Maybe I should try to post something that is different.

[@ericlundquist3466]

Out of the GR3s how many have you tried? Debating which one to get next month for street and "social outings" photography

[@ForsgardPeter]

What do you mean? Different GRs or other cameras? I have had only this version of GR3. There is the GR3 and GR3x. Identical cameras exept the lens. Then GRs has different version that are mainly how the camera looks. Slightly different colors etc. Mine is the Urban Edition.

[@ericlundquist3466]

@ForsgardPeter haven't done my homework, I guess. I always thought each style like for example; diary edition, came with different lenses, lol

[@aRitsos]

Style, big debate. A classification tree can be followed, starting from the kind (landscape, street, cats, ...) the equipment, lens (24mm, 50mm, ...), the process technique at home, with clever ideas (photograph through a box, ....), promotion is important (small words with maximum influence). But can be even the dressing style or the location way (from the roof of a car). That way, a medium is needed to describe, the way, the style the photographer is following. Question: All of us have photographed tour Aifel; which has the better photo; the one who has more to describe

[@ForsgardPeter]

Well said. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[@stefanskoglund2156]

Peter it make sense. God video

[@ForsgardPeter]

Thank you!

[@rajivsanji5379]

I noticed that your photographs have dark and light areas and a flow of light guiding the eye from one to the other, is this your style? Like a rembrandt. Or is it just the video compression doing that?

[@ForsgardPeter]

I always try to look for the light. Remrant type lighting is my favorite type of light. Maybe it is?

[@1lisa1968]

your images are all with a dirty yellow cast so I guess that is something that suggests your style. street photography has many different avenues to it. yours is as the voyeur. from a distance. not really zooming in on faces and expressions. not engaging with your subject at all. like a very shy street photographer who is apprehensive of asking a subject to sign a model release. there is a chap who has a KZbin channel called Sean tucker. his style of photography does not appeal to me either but his videos are philosophical. it really might be something that you can learn from. in case you might be wondering, I am not sure I have a style as I am very experimental in my photography. but it is great to explore other KZbinrs and learn to improve ourselves and techniques.

[@ForsgardPeter]

I do watch Sean Tucker's channel. He has a nice approach to photography. I like his style. My approach is the observer. I do not want to interfier what is going on. I want tihing happen as they would if I was not there. I had a different approach in the past. I did a lot street portraits. I had a lot of interaction with the people I photographed. That was around 2006-2010. That is something I might get back to, not sure yet.

[@fatihersoy2944]

There's something I'm curious about. Why don't they make the camera sensors bent and then fix the distortion. Thus, they can fit a larger sensor into a smaller body

[@ForsgardPeter]

That could be interesting concept. No idea if it would work.