I was watching boudoir photographer Christa Meola on Creative Live this afternoon and she discussed the process of developing your own personal style as a photographer. Here is one of the exercises she recommended to tease out what your style is or what you might want it to be.
Identify your 10 favorite images. They can be from any art form. They can even be your own. Identify what about them most resonates with you. Are there common themes that bubble up? Find and foment (as in revolution) those characteristics in your own work. Here are my twelve favorite images. Twelve instead of ten, because I wanted a 4×3 square.
