Developing Style and Vision

Giv­en the suc­cess of our online cours­es in recent years, we have been reflect­ing on how much we, and all the pho­tog­ra­phers that we have worked with, had enjoyed their time. Until now, much of what we have taught has been based on how to process and inter­pret images, from a raw cam­era file to fin­ished fine art print. Although look­ing at these process­es is huge­ly impor­tant to achiev­ing a high qual­i­ty out­put, it explores lit­tle about the pho­tog­ra­ph­er themselves.

Almost all of the pho­tog­ra­phers we have worked with over the years are pur­su­ing a cer­tain ​‘look’ in their work, they want their images to have that ​‘feel’ and essence about them. It may be dark­ly print­ed black and white images, or images that lift your spir­its and raise a smile in the view­er. Either way, you must strive to make images con­sis­tence and in line with your visu­al sig­na­ture, and this is what this new online work­shop is all about. 

Devel­op­ing Style and Vision is all about you and work­ing with you to devel­op your per­son­al style. We will begin with Paul Gal­lagher and Michael Pilk­ing­ton tak­ing you on their own per­son­al jour­neys of dis­cov­ery and the many stages of them dis­cov­er­ing their visu­al sig­na­tures. As we all learn from each oth­er, there will be online dis­cus­sion ses­sions on what inspires you and what you would like your work to look like, how you would like to con­nect to it emotionally.

This is not all about adjust­ment slid­ers and dia­logue box­es, but about the impact of your work and how you can make it indi­vid­ual to you. It is always tru­ly enlight­en­ing to move on from tech­niques to the nar­ra­tive in the pho­to­graph, after all, as pho­tog­ra­phers we are all try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate visually.

You will be set tasks that will encour­age you to go away and explore how your work will evolve and flour­ish through self reflec­tion. Reg­u­lar catch up online ses­sions will be held to dis­cuss progress and share ideas on how fur­ther devel­op­ment can be har­nessed and Paul and Michael will be there through­out your jour­ney to help you nur­ture your per­son­al style with indi­vid­ual one to one sessions.