How Do I Develop My Own Style?

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

Diy, Art, Arts, Visual Arts, Image, Technology, Photography, Tv & Film, Culture, Tutorials, Gadgets, Photographers

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

These days everyone seems to be a photographer. In a world of literally millions of photographs posted to social media every day, how can you develop your own style and stand out as a photographer. Well the good news is the answer is pretty simple. The bad news is that it takes a lot of work… well bad news depending on how you look at it. Developing your own style takes practice and dedication, but it also takes dedicating yourself to your own work and shutting out the online noise from time to time. Thanks to Karen for letting me share her question with everyone online.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody Ted Forbes, welcome back to the art of photography.
0:02.8	Today we have a question that comes from Karen and Karen writes,
0:06.4	Dear Ted, love the show.
0:08.1	Photography is my passion, but there are times where I get frustrated as a photographer.
0:12.4	It seems that there are so many photographers these days. times where I get frustrated as a photographer.
0:12.6	It seems that there are so many photographers these days.
0:15.2	There's lots of great work on sites like 500PX and Google Plus.
0:18.9	Can you do a video about how to stand out from the crowd?
0:21.8	How do you start to develop your own individual style?
0:24.4	Thanks, Karen.
0:25.5	Karen, thank you for your email.
0:26.9	And I want to share this with everybody because this is a very common issue
0:30.3	that a lot of people have as photographers.
0:32.4	And I want to present this so we can open a
0:34.7	discussion and other people can share their comments about this as well. For me I
0:38.5	think that you may have answered some of this in the way that you pose this
0:42.0	question and you're talking about
0:43.3	there's a lot of photographers these days and then all the great work that's on things
0:46.7	like 500 PX and Google Plus and that is very true and there are you know an
0:52.1	unlimited amount of sources, whether it be photo competitions, photo
0:56.4	annuals, websites like Flickr, 500PX, Google Plus, where there is a lot of great work that's
1:02.2	being displayed and we're all drawn to this
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