Find your style in photography - 6 - Make the Viewer to be There

Following with photography styles, as we have already commented, it's very important to find your own syle as a photographer, it isn't just a painters issue, as a proffesional you have to leave your mark on each of your photographs so that whoever sees them knows that image was captured through your camera and your eyes. 

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of styles with small differences between them. But, what is it that makes a photograph not only have its author personal impression but reach the viewer? Well, one of the answers would be to make the viewer like being in that place, convert the photo from a piece of paper to a trip, make feel the sensations and emotions that we ourselves have when capturing an image. It's difficult, isn't it?

First of all, we can't transmit an emotion that we don't have. If we go around with our camera and just shoot what we think it's nice to choose a good one later we can get some good pictures. But, if we go for what we want or if we go around and find exactly what we need, if we enter into communication with the environment and with what we want to portray, for example: an animal, if we get really involved with what we are capturing, then we get great photographs. However, even though I believe that this way of working can be learned, personally I consider it requires an innate personal condition of the photographer. We can all learn about everything, much more if we strive, but we also have personal skills that lead us to be better in one area or another. 

We have Carter Spade's works as an example of this. You feel close to the image as if you were there and as if you could touch it. As he says: "I want the viewer to feel the connection to the animal or place that I felt at the time that sparked me to take that photo. I try to find an angle that makes the viewers feel like they are seeing it for themselves.", and he always gets it. He's an animal lover (even his work is not limited to that), and we can really feel that those eyes on the image are watching us, and we can feel that connection of which he speaks about as if we were there. Therefore, although the technical and specific issues of photography are very important, not least is to convey feelings to the viewer. Click on the images to enlarge them and know more about Carter Spade and his wonderful style and photographs, you can also visit his site www.spadephoto.com .