![]() This is because your audience needs help understanding the structure of the language you are using. You are therefore responsible for either teaching your audience how to read this language, or for having others help your audience understand your language. This language may be fairly transparent or it can be quite complex. ![]() You are therefore indebted to your audience because if you create a new language your audience needs to make the effort of learning this new language. You are also the author of the visual language used to create this work of art. In other words you are not just the author of the work of art. Your personal style is a visual languagein a way that you use to communicate your message, your vision,to your audience. You are the inventor of the image as well as the author of the factureof the image. You invent it as you move forward towards an ever-finer representation of the ideas in your mind.Īt that point you are both the inventor of a new vision and the inventor of a new language to translate and express this vision. Eventually, the language you use becomes yours only. As your vision becomes more refined and more unique so does your language. As an artist expressing your vision through a personal style, you are not just sharing a message through the language of your choice. It is also a new attempt at defining the language that you are using to make this translation. Therefore, each new translation, each new photograph, is a new attempt towards a more accurate translation or towards a translation that your audience understands better. Photography is a visual language that uses composition, tone, color, contrast, subject, light, angle, approach and more to translate your vision into images that anyone can see.Īs with any translation, something is often lost, modified or left out. The language you are using to create this translation is photography. It is the translation of your ideas into something that others can see, something that you can share with your audience, something that represents the closest rendition of your vision that you are capable of producing at a given time. Change reality! If you don’t find it, invent it!Ī personal style is the translation of your vision into an actual work of art, into a photograph in this instance. ![]() I am steadily surprised that there are so many photographers that reject manipulating reality,Īs if that was wrong. It is the conclusion of the four-parts artistic process that I present in this series and it brings together the four parts of this process. This essay is also the last in this four-essay series. The essay you are reading now is the result of my continued thinking on this subject over the past 4 years. If you have not read this previous essay I recommend you do so because it features information that is not repeated in this second essay. The only way to get to the top of this stairway is work as hard as you can at developing your style.Ībout 4 years ago I wrote my first essay on personal style, the essay was published in my book Mastering Landscape Photography. Each attempt is but one small step, but the sum of your attempts creates a stairway that eventually will lead you to heights that you could not have climbed in a single step. Each new artistic statement, each new piece, will become another step towards achieving your personal style. To compensate the detractions that will most likely come your way, you will need to find courage and motivation in your successes at describing your vision and at sharing it successfully with your audience.Īs you become bolder you find new ways to express and share this vision. As you work towards making your vision a reality, you will need to become bolder. The more fertile your inspiration and creativity are, the faster your vision and your personal style will grow.Īchieving a personal style represents a significant amount of work. As we saw in the three previous essays, this is a four-parts process: vision and personal style are related to inspiration and creativity. Your personal style develops, expands and becomes more unique as you continue making your vision a reality. Personal style is the venue through which you share your vision with your audience. The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules. Together these four essays represent, first, an exploration of the too-rarely discussed subject of inspiration and creativity,Īnd second a road map towards the development of a vision and the achievement of a personal style unique to you.Įach essay features a set of Skill Enhancement Exercises that allows you to practice and develop the skills discussed in each essay on your own. This essay is the fourth in a four part series
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