The document discusses the importance of developing a photographic style. It defines style as a combination of the camera, lenses, exposures, environments, processing, and subject matter used. Developing a style takes trying different techniques and subjects to find what you enjoy. The author developed their style of creative self-portraits, distortions, dark humor, and photoshop effects through 365 photo challenges. A distinctive style can help photographers stand out, get discovered, and take their work to the next level.

2. The importance of developing your photographic style
The importance of developing your photographic style 2011

3. By Mr. Flibble
A.K.A. Dominick Reed
Available for sexy loving 2011

4. Tonight
What constitutes a style?
Why bother?
How do you develop one?
Then what?
How would I describe my style?
So is a style important?
Next month at CD
Techniques to ensure you don’t develop a big head 2011

5. What constitutes a style?
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ 2011

6. It’s a combination of lots of things
Camera
Film, Digital, Lomo, Polaroid, Pinhole, Scanner
Lens & composition
Macro, Wangle, Telephoto, 50mm, fisheye
Exposure
Depth of field, Over and Under Exposure, Blurry, Sharp
Environment
Inside, Outside, Studio, Underwater, Country, Lighting (natural or artificial)
Processing
Dodging & Burning, B&W, Photoshop, Creative destruction
Photographer Subject matter
Emotions, Influences, Agenda ...

10. Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)

11. Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)

12. Rodolphe Simeon (Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff...)

13. Is this a style?
Scandybars.tumblr.com

14. Scandybars.tumblr.com

15. Scandybars.tumblr.com

16. Brooke Shaden - The perspective of make believe people

17. Brooke Shaden - The day I caught clouds

18. Brooke Shaden – Running from wind

19. Why bother?
The daily struggle 2011

20. 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
To create something recognisable as you
Expressing who you are
To win business, and to lose business
Enriching the world - being an inspiration

21. How do you develop a style?
The unwelcome welcome 2011

22. 100mm Macro Canon 20D 17-35 Wide Angle
2006

23. Don’t make me paint it 2006

24. Rose in grey 2006

25. Louvre pyramid 2006

26. So she wants another kid... 2006

27. A break in the April showers 2006

28. Divining for water 2006

29. Conspiracy to commit bloodshed 2006

30. Contemplating over-sized furniture 2006

31. Proof that beef tastes good 2006

32. Ninjas strike again Need for weed 2006

33. Shelf portrait 2006

34. Being vacuumed up yet again... 2006

35. When George learns to stand up, Millie quite sensibly runs... 2007

36. When effort is just too much effort 2007

37. You’ve got me the Mousinator 3000? 2008

38. Spam 2008

39. I was going through a learning phase
Trying all types of subjects
Trying flashes
Finding angles and compositions
Learning Photoshop
Learning what I actually enjoyed doing
Realising I still had a lot to learn... so...

40. ...then I started a 365
And in the darkness bind them 2010

41. Resolutions 2010

42. I can fix this... I think... 2010

43. Well I never knew that... 2010

44. There’s a disco in my washing machine again... 2010

45. I see alive people... 2010

46. When super powers are suddenly less super... 2010

47. And then I realised I had a style...
“Hey, I love your self portraits”
“You really make my day”
“I look forward to my daily Flibble”
“Where do you get all your self portrait ideas?”

48. I’m getting top grades at Airhead school 2010

49. Wolverine’s brother wasn’t quite so successful 2010

50. Even ninjas have to start somewhere 2010

51. Happy(ish) Halloween 2010

52. Then what?
The moment it occurred to me you could love Marmite too much 2010

53. I think you start to mature your style
Refining, tweaking, exaggerating
Learning, expanding
Elevating, inspiring
Expressing what you really wanted to convey
...And stupidly I started a 2nd 365

54. Telephone call for Mr. Flibble 2011

55. You might think I’m crazy 2011

56. The apple of my eye got stuck 2011

57. They locked me away and said I was mad 2011

58. Stealing your soul piece by piece 2011

59. And you shall know pain 2011

60. Like a puppet on a string 2011

61. Remember kids... Sticky tape isn’t for playing with... 2011

62. The abduction 2011

63. Attack of the 500ft Flibble 2011

64. How would I describe my style?
One day, someone would surely bite... 2011

65. This is still difficult for me
Creative self-portraiture
Super close wide angle distortions
Bittersweet Humour
Darkly tinged naivety with a ray of hope
Photoshoppy
Marmite

66. So is a style important?
Eagerly anticipating the wet tea shirt competition 2011

67. 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

68. Thank you!
www.flickr.com/photos/flibble
Nothing to see here... 2011