Learning Photography

Steal Like a Student: How Imitating Other Photographers Actually Builds Your Own Style
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Steal Like a Student: How Imitating Other Photographers Actually Builds Your Own Style

Every Sunday morning I do a photo walk around my Seattle neighborhood, and for a long time I’d come home, edit the shots, and feel like something was off. The images were technically fine but they felt borrowed. Like I was wearing someone else’s jacket. I knew I was imitating photographers I admired, but I wasn’t doing it with any real intention. I was just absorbing influences at random and wondering why nothing felt like mine.

10 Film Photographers You Should Be Following Right Now (And What They Taught Me About Shooting Film)
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10 Film Photographers You Should Be Following Right Now (And What They Taught Me About Shooting Film)

I’ve been shooting digital for years, and somewhere along the way I convinced myself that film was this intimidating, gatekept world I wasn’t ready for. Too many settings I didn’t understand. Too much money wasted on bad exposures. Too many things I couldn’t just fix in Lightroom later. What finally cracked that wall open for me wasn’t a manual or a course. It was watching other photographers who were further down the road share exactly who had taught them and why.