What is Personal style?

1 - Introduction
In photography our personal style is the visual expression of our personal taste and personality. Your personal style defines what your photographs and your prints look like.
Our style is characterized both by what we capture in the field and by the work we do to the image in the studio. It is characterized by the choices we make in the field and the changes we make to the digital capture in the studio. These choices and these changes represent a transformation of what the camera captured into what we see and feel either at the time of capture or later on in the studio. What we see and feel is defined by us and does not necessarily refer to the natural world. It can just as well refer to our personal world, whatever it consists of.
Deciding what to include in the frame, when to capture the photograph and what to change during processing is central to the process of developing a personal style. One way to find out if we have a style is to ask ourselves what we c...