glenerrolrd
Workshop Member
To be noticed in as a Street Photographer(or really any type of photographer ) ..it seems you need a identifiable style . Since I am primarily a street photographer (getting close to 200 000 street photographs )...I can only speak to STREET . When I look at Instagram and the street photographers I follow ...I can almost immediately guess the photographer . I saw this photograph on the Leica Store website and thought ..do I really want to be unique ? Or do I want my photographs to have an aesthetic I like .
I started seriously in street photography in about 2006 ..so that's 16 years of work . My first dozen years all my work was in color and mostly with various Leica digital M cameras . About 4-5 years ago I started shooting more in Black and White (because all of my numerous street shooting workshops preferred B&W ) ...first converting color files and then going all in with Leica Mono bodies .
Today I shoot both color and B&W using the M11 and the M10M ...it depends on the subject and time of year .
I have been noticing quite a lot of maybe gimmicks by photographers in an effort to build an identifiable style . Strong backlighting ,reflections , creative (?) blur are examples. I would like my photographs to have a cohesive aesthetic (for example the color should look like Kodachrome or maybe the Leica M9 files ; the MONO files maybe like Fuji Acros or maybe TRI X ) . I am not sure I want an identifiable style based on gimmicks or fashion ?
What do you think ??? No right answer just perspective . I do like this customization of the M bodies although not sure I could take the hit on resale !
I started seriously in street photography in about 2006 ..so that's 16 years of work . My first dozen years all my work was in color and mostly with various Leica digital M cameras . About 4-5 years ago I started shooting more in Black and White (because all of my numerous street shooting workshops preferred B&W ) ...first converting color files and then going all in with Leica Mono bodies .
Today I shoot both color and B&W using the M11 and the M10M ...it depends on the subject and time of year .
I have been noticing quite a lot of maybe gimmicks by photographers in an effort to build an identifiable style . Strong backlighting ,reflections , creative (?) blur are examples. I would like my photographs to have a cohesive aesthetic (for example the color should look like Kodachrome or maybe the Leica M9 files ; the MONO files maybe like Fuji Acros or maybe TRI X ) . I am not sure I want an identifiable style based on gimmicks or fashion ?
What do you think ??? No right answer just perspective . I do like this customization of the M bodies although not sure I could take the hit on resale !
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