Any form of art is difficult at first. When you pick it up and you start learning the basics it all seems very hard and everyone else seems so much better than you. You feel like you’re never going to be nearly as good. Once you start making some progress you start trying to do things your own way but all you do is copy the people who inspire you. This is the way to go…
Picasso once said that “Good artists copy, great artist steal” and while he didn’t mean it regarding creating one’s own style it can also be true for that. The most common way to create your own style is to start taking bits of other people’s work that you like, unless you’re a genius who instinctively develops it. Once you start taking part from here and there you will start seeing what you like and what you don’t. Then eventually a point will come where start improving what you don’t like and making it suit you. The trick is to keep shooting. Just keep taking pictures and experimenting.
As with so many other things, with photography, practice makes perfect. A photographer has to remember that there are some rules that work in the majority of the time but the good thing about rules is that they’re meant to be broken. To develop our own style we, as photographers, have to make sure we try new things. Try to be creative with composition, exposure, even gear. If you’re a street photographer, try landscape, if you’re a portrait photographer, try product photography. Just keep experimenting…
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