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The slide deck of the talk given in Aug 2011 by Mr Flibble at the Cambridge Darkroom meetup. The video is also on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp9I7yovmJc
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The importance of developing your photographic style 2011
The importance of developing your photographic style
A.K.A. Dominick Reed
Available for sexy loving 2011
By Mr. Flibble
What constitutes a style?
Why bother?
How do you develop one?
Then what?
How would I describe my style?
So is a style important?
Techniques to ensure you don’t develop a big head 2011
Tonight
Next month at CD
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ 2011
What constitutes a style?
It’s a combination of lots of things Camera
Lens & composition
Subject matter
Environment
Processing
Photographer
Film, Digital, Lomo, Polaroid, Pinhole, Scanner
Macro, Wangle, Telephoto, 50mm, fisheye
Inside, Outside, Studio, Underwater, Country, Lighting (natural or artificial)
Dodging & Burning, B&W, Photoshop, Creative destruction
Emotions, Influences, Agenda
Exposure Depth of field, Over and Under Exposure, Blurry, Sharp
...
Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)
Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)
Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)
Scandybars.tumblr.com
Is this a style?
Scandybars.tumblr.com
Scandybars.tumblr.com
Brooke Shaden - The perspective of make believe people
Brooke Shaden - The day I caught clouds
Brooke Shaden – Running from wind
The daily struggle 2011
Why bother?
I’m not sure you get a choice
Every man and his dog has a decent camera nowadays
A style separates you from the masses
Expressing who you are
To win business, and to lose business
Enriching the world - being an inspiration
To create something recognisable as you
The unwelcome welcome 2011
How do you develop a style?
17-35 Wide Angle Canon 20D 100mm Macro
2006
Don’t make me paint it 2006
Rose in grey 2006
Louvre pyramid 2006
So she wants another kid... 2006
A break in the April showers 2006
Divining for water 2006
Conspiracy to commit bloodshed 2006
Contemplating over-sized furniture 2006
Proof that beef tastes good 2006
Need for weed 2006 Ninjas strike again
Shelf portrait 2006
Being vacuumed up yet again... 2006
When George learns to stand up, Millie quite sensibly runs... 2007
When effort is just too much effort 2007
You’ve got me the Mousinator 3000? 2008
Spam 2008
I was going through a learning phase
Trying all types of subjects
Trying flashes
Learning Photoshop
Realising I still had a lot to learn... so...
Finding angles and compositions
Learning what I actually enjoyed doing
...then I started a 365
And in the darkness bind them 2010
Resolutions 2010
I can fix this... I think... 2010
Well I never knew that... 2010
There’s a disco in my washing machine again... 2010
I see alive people... 2010
When super powers are suddenly less super... 2010
“Hey, I love your self portraits”
“You really make my day”
“Where do you get all your self portrait ideas?”
And then I realised I had a style...
“I look forward to my daily Flibble”
I’m getting top grades at Airhead school 2010
Wolverine’s brother wasn’t quite so successful 2010
Even ninjas have to start somewhere 2010
Happy(ish) Halloween 2010
The moment it occurred to me you could love Marmite too much 2010
Then what?
I think you start to mature your style
Learning, expanding
Expressing what you really wanted to convey
Refining, tweaking, exaggerating
Elevating, inspiring
...And stupidly I started a 2nd 365
Telephone call for Mr. Flibble 2011
You might think I’m crazy 2011
The apple of my eye got stuck 2011
They locked me away and said I was mad 2011
Stealing your soul piece by piece 2011
And you shall know pain 2011
Like a puppet on a string 2011
Remember kids... Sticky tape isn’t for playing with... 2011
The abduction 2011
Attack of the 500ft Flibble 2011
One day, someone would surely bite... 2011
How would I describe my style?
This is still difficult for me
Creative self-portraiture
Super close wide angle distortions
Darkly tinged naivety with a ray of hope
Bittersweet Humour
Photoshoppy
Marmite
Eagerly anticipating the wet tea shirt competition 2011
So is a style important?
I would say yes
It makes you describable
It’s the first step to being discovered
It helps to take your photography to the next level
I also think it’s inevitable
Nothing to see here... 2011
Thank you! www.flickr.com/photos/flibble
