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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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How to build a unique and identifiable style (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Healthy-Succotash899@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hi!

I’m relatively new to photography (2 years) and I have a lot of good pictures but I feel due to different places, people, and lights all my pictures look different.

I’d like to create a more unique style and also image editing, but I constantly change my ideas and editing style because it doesn’t always fit.

Do you have good advice on how to become more consistent? Like what type of edits do you apply across all images so that despite the subject or light or situation it makes the pictures throughout memorable?

I do have only 1 lens 35mm which I think is already helpful for being consistent. But maybe there’s something else about some settings or things I can think about using consistently as well.

I think my personality is already a bit chaotic so this reflects in my images.

I do portrait and street photography.

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[–] ArgumentAlarmed7716@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Try different styles from photographers you like. From there, you’ll have a better idea of what you like and you’ll be able to create your own style. Inspiration is key. It’s difficult to create a style from scratch. Visualization also helps. I like need for speed games and fast and furious movies. So when i shoot video. I try to create the same vibe/feeling/look. Same with photography. I imagine movie scenes while listening to soundtracks from the games/movies or just music I like in general. From there I can imagine scenes, subjects, looks, angles, colour palets, etc. Then, I take notes of what I imagined. Notion is great for that. I like being creative and not normalized. My style is random, in a unique way. From film looks, to street racing vibes, to dark b&w images filled with motion blur and grain, etc.

https://preview.redd.it/o8ixyuvgg61c1.jpeg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e70dfe65b5325b6c4234b07ee30e10afb3749df