Exercise: Defining Your Style

Style is something that doesn’t happen all at once but one picture at a time. Trying to make style happen quickly is contrary to its path. After years of shooting we can look back and of course it all makes sense. Looking forward seems like an impossible task. In order to create powerful people pictures, you need to articulate the inner core or substance of the photographs that you want to make. That way, regardless of the subject, your work can have a cohesive thread.

Here are a few steps to help you make this process more concrete by developing comparative terms. For most of us, our style isn’t exactly where we’d like it to be. Therefore, approach this exercise by describing the style you would like to have.