:: exercise #3: defining your style | 30 people pictures ::

SPECS

• Goal: Use verbal descriptive terms to define your style and/or the style you would like to have.
• Tools: Pen, journal, magazine images, images from your favorite photography sites.
• Light: N/A
• Location: N/A
• Theme: WHAT IS YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE?
• Duration: open
• Subject(s): N/A

CHALLENGES

• Step 1: Brainstorm about physical objects for 15 minutes, write down 25 items & circle 5.
• Step 2: Write down the colors you associate with Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall. Create small color palettes for each season & write about the moods that each season evokes in you. Choose the color palette and mood that best describe the style of pictures you would like to make.
• Step 3: Write down the ideal weather for your ideal photo shoot. Describe the weather that matches the photographs that you want to make.
• Step 4: Pick a musical piece/music style/composer that best accompanies the type of pictures you'd like to make.
• Step 5: Make a comparison of your photographic style to food.

PRODUCT

• To be able to verbalize the essence of the photographs that you want to make. To have a clear vision of a cohesive style that is uniquely yours.

For more tips and inspiration, please read Chris Orwig's "People Pictures."