kathyt
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I think there are at least two different words being tossed around here.
Style - the common thing that connects my pictures together (I shoot only slide film, I like wide angle landscapes, etc)
Style - a strong visual theme which most objective viewers would agree makes some group of images look similar
or something like that. These two overlap, but the fact that you shoot film, or like saturated colors isn't generally enough to make a randomly selected viewer say 'aha, yes, those images all look similar'
It's not clear to me what people would even mean when they ask 'what's your style?' It's possible they're just trying to make small talk and it doesn't mean a thing.
Style in the *second* sense is a good part of what sells, both commercially and in the art world. The ability to produce More Work That Looks Like That is critical to a pretty broad class of working photographers (and other artists).
I was thinking about this last night as I was reviewing a gallery. I think, in a sense, we could say, "What would we ultimately want our images to look like?" We all have some sort of vision in our minds of what we like and don't like. Using the word "style" is just an umbrella term. Could we say vision? Either way, it means the same thing to me. We have a great thread going here that is not only respectful, but helpful to one another. Lets keep it up.