Styles change. Fashion never sits still. Yet there are plenty of photographers who still churn out the same old style year after year.
Recently a photographer on a Fine Art America forum was moaning about their dropping sales this year. They had great sales in the past but now nothing. Perhaps the market has left their style? Maybe sad looking big eyed children just aren’t the thing any more? Things do change and people do get tired of certain styles and move on.
Perhaps ten years ago they wondered into a Peter Lik gallery while on vacation and said “wowza, I love this over saturated, metallic paper landscape” and have been striving to achieve that look ever since. Or they had a Ansel Adams poster in their dorm room thirty years ago and have been traveling to the southwestern US every chance they get to create dramatic black and white images of Yosemite or the desert.
Or maybe a five years ago they caught the HDR bug and have never left to the realm of surreal colors and impossible dynamic range.
So what happens when HDR becomes a cliche? Something for amatuers or for people to do with a phone apps? Perhaps its time to go to a more traditional or classic style. More retro. Or more futuristic. It depends on you, your sense of style and what the market is looking for.
Ask yourself.
- Do you have any style?
- Can you describe “your” style?
- Can you adapt to trends or are you going to wait for your style to come back in fashion?
According to Format Magazine the trendy styles for 2017 are:
- Minimalist Fashion Photography
- Plants
- Chairs
- 35mm Film
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Suburban America
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Girl Gaze
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Collages and Diptychs
Read more here:
https://www.format.com/magazine/features/photography/photography-trends-2017-predictions