Style

          Some people go years without finding their style.  Luckily for me I have some awesome teachers and my own strobe lighting kit.  This allows me to take lots of in studio pictures ANYWHERE!
  
     I have been on a journey to find my style ever since I began taking classes.  Very rarely does a person know what their style is once they pick up a camera.  Usually it has to be developed over time.  To speed up the process of finding style my teacher, Professor Gomez, is having us make idea books.  Thanks to this "idea book" I have picked up the habit of looking at photography and new photos and new photographers.

     The other day I found this photographer, and I LOVE his pictures.  You can see them at http://andrzejdragan.com/  His pictures are AMAZING.  The more I looked at them, and the more I studied them I wondered what made his pictures so beautiful?  I decided I want to take pictures just like him.  They are kind of dark and gloomy, but I love the lighting, and the element of depression.

     After I found his pictures I went on to find more photographers that I love.  Most of them were from Europe.  Anyways, thanks to them I think I know my style.  I love photographing on a black back ground.  I love the darkness in the picture surrounding a subject.  Then I looked at my lighting, and I realized.  I LOVE SOFT LIGHT!  I love the way soft lighting looks on a person.  It's sudden and highlights features very subtly.

      The more I look at my blog and the more I look at past pictures I've taken I can see I am constantly striving to capture that subtle light.  I think the pictures I decided to post in this blog represent the soft light I'm talking about.  There are some pictures from the "Kids" post that have subtle light in them (they are my favorite ones).  A lot of the pictures from "The Beginning" post have subtle light.  Now that I have realized I love soft lighting I just need to get my photoshop style down (my editing style).  Anyways, I hope you enjoy my pictures.