{"id":215,"date":"2013-02-24T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arctictim.ca\/\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-02-24T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T18:25:26","slug":"do-i-have-style-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Do I Have Style Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a problem many beginning photographers face – people will ask, “what sort of photography do you do?” I was asked that just last night, in fact, and it can be a very difficult question to answer convincingly. Fortunately, I was prepared.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago, I read an article that talked about consistency in photography being a hallmark of a good photographer. This does not mean that an excellent landscape photographer cannot take a nice portrait here and there; it means that if I am trying to market myself as a serious photographer, albeit an amateur one, my portfolio should reflect my strengths, interests and what is unique to my work. That is what spawned my “Photo of the Week” challenge, which I have\u00c2\u00a0embarrassingly\u00c2\u00a0neglected twice when life got in the way.<\/p>\n

So, over the last two months, here is what I have discovered (and begun to hone). I like landscapes. I don’t know if this is because I like landscapes or if it is because that is what my environment is most suited to right now, but most of the nicer photographs I am getting are of the wider environment around me. I also like high saturated colours – a polarizing filter s in my future, but in the mean time I have been using computer software to increase saturation slightly. I like textures in snow and in the sky, and like to have sharp (crisp, not necessarily pointy) objects contrasted against a bright, saturated and nicely textured sky. Where saturation is difficult, I like to add a filter to make things a little more interesting – I have been particularly fond of adding a purple tint to some of my photographs. Generally speaking, I prefer a slightly warmer than suggested white balace during morning and evening hours, but like to cool things off a bit when the sun is high in the sky.<\/p>\n

These preferences, which I believe are beginning to incubate my “style”, are observed in these photographs:<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a>

Little Playgreen Lake (Norway House, MB, 2013)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Feb\"<\/a> \"DSC_0043\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Speed<\/a>

Speed Limit on Mission Island (Norway House, MB, 2013)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"DSC_0030\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Afternoon<\/a>

Afternoon Sky (Norway House, MB, 2013)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"DSC_0064\"So, when asked, “what’s my style”, I would generally answer that I focus on landscapes during the earlier or later hours of the day, looking at well saturated colours, rich contrast, and that I try to have the sky paint a nice backdrop for crisp subject matter. I am beginning to develop a consistent portfolio of work to back that up.<\/p>\n

I hope to continue to get better at event photography, portrait photography, and when finances and time permit, would love to experiment with night, macro and more abstract photography – at present, my personal and work routines as well as my environment are not easily suited to that (though I do have control of all of that, with the exception of not having a macro lens). Fine art photography is not only outside my comfort zone, but likely falls outside of whatever shreds of innate talent I am trying to exercise.<\/p>\n

Nature and wildlife photography… well, we’ll just have to wait for bear season to see that that goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a problem many beginning photographers face – people will ask, “what sort of photography do you do?” I was asked that just last night, in fact, and it can be a very difficult question to answer convincingly. Fortunately, I was prepared. A couple of months ago, I read an article that talked about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctictim.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}