If you see a Bencab or a Warhol painting? can you recognize their signature style? Can you name a few leading fine art photographers here in the country whose photo images can be recognized through their style? can you mention their favorite subject? color pallete? and style maybe? is style important? are you doing it consistently? :)

Can't think of a local photographer as of the moment, tho' i can easily recognize a Jeurgen Teller photograph when i see one!

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/teller_fashion.html

Manuel Librodo http://www.treklens.com/members/manny/ you can easily recognize his photos because of his unique style, the eyes, concept and the quality, one of the best portraiture Iv seen,

Richard Larios. No wonder Adobe buys his images and one of 2006 DC Magazine' Photographer of the Year.

Manuel Librodo http://www.treklens.com/members/manny/ you can easily recognize his photos because of his unique style, the eyes, concept and the quality, one of the best portraiture Iv seen,

yes, his style IS already recognized in some forums
http://www.dpchallenge.com/profile.php?USER_ID=14386


inspiring work indeed! not only to pinoys but to internationals as well. note that his gallery is one of the the more popular galleries in pbase as well.

I'm going to arrange a symposium for you guys to meet Manuel Librodo in person, he will arrive from Bali this Sunday, we will print and frame his works next week in time for his grand opening on July 1 at OWG. Mark your calendar folks! =)

Also watch out for the July issue of the Mabuhay Magazine where Manuel Librodo will be featured. With 500,000 readership of Mabuhay mag, pinoys around the globe will be proud of another Manny; but this time it's not Manny Pacqiao=)

I'm going to arrange a symposium for you guys to meet Manuel Librodo in person, he will arrive from Bali this Sunday, we will print and frame his works next week in time for his grand opening on July 1 at OWG. Mark your calendar folks! =)

coolness! count me in!

it will be exciting to finally meet the man behind the images! since ive been a regular visitor of his website as well. i hope he could share some of his techniques too!

proudly pinoy indeed!

Manuel Librodo http://www.treklens.com/members/manny/ you can easily recognize his photos because of his unique style, the eyes, concept and the quality, one of the best portraiture Iv seen,

you're correct there Jmerts...you can easily recognized a Librodo portrait because he has a distinct style of capturing the eyes. I saw a lot of photogs in the net following and copying his style. There's no wrong in copying an idol but as long as the follower add on and progress also to pursue his vision and direction; he will be in the right track. OWG represents Librodo in the Philippines. OWG will also promote his images globally through our overseas gallery network. As the curator and director of OWG i'm always on the look out for budding talents with powerful vision. Right now we carry the works of Librodo and Larrios (Richard's show at OWG will be in August and i'm going to have him featured too in Mabuhay this August)....i will post more about our topic thread which is "Finding your style and vision":)

So our English teacher preached back in high school. Little did I know that this statement will be ringing true years later as I enter the crazy hobby of photography.

Try organizing your own online gallery and you'll find out what "style" is all about because of all the confusion that it's going to create.

Ross, maybe you can share with us how you "stumbled" upon your own style of interpreting photographs in a multimedia format. Quite impressive. I still remember your answer to my question regarding your photographs, if you had already an end result in mind whenever you press the shutter, to which you replied, "the photograph then becomes another blank canvass..."

As for me, I'm still in the process of discovering photoshop. And I find my interests to be so varied that i don't think I'll be having a eureka moment anytime soon ; )

If you see a Bencab or a Warhol painting? can you recognize their signature style? Can you name a few leading fine art photographers here in the country whose photo images can be recognized through their style? :)

i notice that marc nicdao and xander angeles have a certain style when shooting glamor shots.

Nap Jamir III

i think style is important when you want to have an identity out there... i just really hate the redundant/ repetitive images.. it becomes stale after a while not to mention very very boring...

john makes a good point. especially when "style" is at everyone's fingertips these days thanks to the internet. anybody who's into photography these days more or less will be swimming in the same pool of thoughts and ideas and will be exposed to the same stuff more or less.

being original these days can be quite a challenge.

So our English teacher preached back in high school. Little did I know that this statement will be ringing true years later as I enter the crazy hobby of photography.

Try organizing your own online gallery and you'll find out what "style" is all about because of all the confusion that it's going to create.

Ross, maybe you can share with us how you "stumbled" upon your own style of interpreting photographs in a multimedia format. Quite impressive. I still remember your answer to my question regarding your photographs, if you had already an end result in mind whenever you press the shutter, to which you replied, "the photograph then becomes another blank canvass..."

As for me, I'm still in the process of discovering photoshop. And I find my interests to be so varied that i don't think I'll be having a eureka moment anytime soon ; )


Hi Raul,
It's very hard nowadays to find your own style "na walang kamukha"...if our parents just left us inside the box devoid of any information and images, then as we come out and show our photographs to others, we can really call our style "original", not copied nor inspired by another work.
But "taste and style" is within us though we are being inspired by the work of another photographer. "Intuition" is another factor that's why we are very creative. Try to remember the old times when we use to served by our mothers a "champorado"?...how come you just dont pour the milk?, you played with it right? and create round oscillating patterns , because we have that within us, that playful attitude that will lead to creativity. In advertising lingo, we call it "laro lang" or "lalaruin lang natin". Try to be be a child when you press the shutter and up to your post processing, forget all the instructions, the dos and dont's, the standards, in short unlearn. You will find later that your creative juice will flow, and that's you with your "taste" working within will lead your intuition. But the most important thing is you must know when to stop working on your images...
:)

i notice that marc nicdao and xander angeles have a certain style when shooting glamor shots.

marc nicdao used (or still, honestly i don't know) to belong to xander's edge of light group with erwin barleta. the young padawan learned from the master jedi.

i think style is important when you want to have an identity out there... i just really hate the redundant/ repetitive images.. it becomes stale after a while not to mention very very boring...


National Artist for painting Jerry Elizalde Navarro once said: If an artist paints flowers all his entire career, something must be wrong in his brain. hehe
I believed artist photographers evolved and mature in time. Style is something to do with your workflow, chose of color (in our case b&w or colored, maybe sepia or duotone). The boredom comes when you presented the same subject over and over again, not unless we really want to refine that same subject...that's why photographers must not be called photographers but rather an artist, because you think and imagine and not just clicking...:)

marc nicdao used (or still, honestly i don't know) to belong to xander's edge of light group with erwin barleta. the young padawan learned from the master jedi.

yup. i'm not really sure if he's no longer connected, but i saw in a mag that he was credited as marc nicdao of wildbunchstudio.

thanks, ross. reinforced what i was thinking all along. but that statement, "know when to stop working on your images", is an interesting point.