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The B&H Event Space is a leading-edge learning environment designed to educate, inspire, and cultivate a community of like-minded individuals, who aspire to be great at what they love to do. By offering free workshops and lectures in photography, video...

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Finding Photographic Style Class Notes &Worksheet

Anatomy of Photographic Style:                               

Attitude, Emotions and Up Bringing:___________________________________

Genre & Subject   Primary:__________________Secondary:________________

Shooting Technique:_______________________________________________

Message: _________________________________________________________

Treatment: ________________________________________________________

Presentation: _______________________________________________________

Links:

www.suspectphotography.com (david’s blog)

www.avedonfoundation.org

www.platinumeditions.com (fine art pt/pl work)

www.alienskin.com (weird photoshop plug in)

www.brentonhamiltonstudio.net (fine art alt process)

www.egglestontrust.com (master photographer)

www.www.johnpaulcaponigro.com (master photographer- emphasis on digital)

www.chipsimons.com (master editorial photographer and David hero)

www.lenswork.com (fine art photography magazine)

www.mainemedia.edu (education)

www.loumanna.com (food photographer)

www.richardsandler.com (street photographer)

  Reading List:

Art & Fear by David Bayle and Ted Orland

Why People Photograph by Robert Adams

Letting Go of the Camera by Brooks Jensen

Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes

List your Three Favorite Photographers that influenced you:

Photo accomplishment in 2016:

What you want to accomplish (goals) for 2017:

Notes:

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To me, the first step in developing a style is through lighting. Especially when starting out, an aspiring photographer seldom has access to great subjects or great locations. Thoughtful, deliberate lighting can really help elevate your pictures. Find your style and stick to it. You don’t need to light everything exactly the same, but your portfolio should feel like a cohesive body of work. I don’t think developing a visual style happens overnight, and it’s often about trying everything you can and stripping away what doesn’t work. It’s a slow but gratifying process, and often times, someone will tell you they dig your style before you even know what it is!

Peter Yang

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The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

Yousuf Karsh

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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Robert Frank

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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

Weegee

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A beautiful photo perfectly illustrates a moment in time to the point of becoming timeless, and a well told photo story stays in people’s minds forever.

Jean-Pierre Laffont

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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Irving Penn

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My audiences in seminars are generally between 40 and 70, some even older. And I say congratulate yourself: You've got an interest in photography; now make it a passion -- love it, drink it and you will live a linger life. People who think, who are creating, who are passionate, tend to live longer. I'm like a role model for the retired set.

Art Wolfe

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If one of your resolutions for the New Year is to improve your photography, we have all the workshops you'll need to do it & they're all FREE! Check out our January schedule here: http://bhpho.to/1cXLZYx

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I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Alfred Eisenstadt

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Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer, photographer, or model, but that's not the way things work. People have to go to school, learn their craft, and build a brand - that's the right, healthy way to do things.

Anna Wintour

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This Sunday, December 21, join legendary photojournalist Peter Turnley here in our Event Space as he presents work from his recent book, 'A Love Letter to Paris': http://bhpho.to/1v0LS5z A book signing will follow his talk.

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Don’t forget to explore, discover, be curious and do other things that fill your heart with joy. That joy and creativity will feed back into your photography.

Laura Babb

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I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Diane Arbus

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I know very little about photography. I know a lot about taking pictures, but very little about photography.

Mel DiGiacomo

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I’m still learning. I can’t teach how to see. What I suggest is that one does not cease searching. Some of us learn more quickly than others. Accept that and you’ll be OK. Don’t stop no matter how numerous your mistakes. Mistakes are the building blocks. I don’t look forward to making mistakes, but accept them for what they are; learning tools. Today, anyone who owns a camera or a smart phone is a photographer, but becoming a photographer with something to say, if you will, is another story. Anyone who owns a pen is capable of writing but, as with photography, having something to say is another story. Stories don’t come from the pen or the camera. They come from you. Believe in what you’re doing, accept mistakes and rejection. Keep getting up off the mat and keep "following your bliss.” Passion will prevail. Mel DiGiacomo, instructor and still learning.