Style vs. Subject

The subject of flowers does not represent a style. It is how you photograph these flowers and turn them into a visual display that represents your style. If, for example, ones pictures are black and white, color, up close, tightly cropped and or pulled back and centered, i.e. shot in various ways using no single approach or viewpoint, their images are, in essence, without a definable style.

Were each of the same flowers in the aforementioned example captured using a very shallow depth of field, highlighting the reproductive organs of the plant with a tack-sharp focus giving us a sense of life while imbuing some human quality in each of the flowers one would be working within their "style."

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