Thank you, good luck. I have learned that to evolve your own style could take years, and perhaps it's more important to get work, and to shoot a lot, instead of thinking of creating your own style, as we are all unique, we naturally all come with our own style, and the work if technically really solid, and been thought out, your style would emerge. Every artist style emerges through years of work, so I think just to work a lot, and build your technique, your own style would build up overtime. I wish my teachers at art school had told me this, they always said to us by the time we leave school we need to have a body of work in our portfolios that's consistent-but it took my many more years to learn that the consistency perhaps couldn't be achieved within the mere years of art school training, and shouldn't worry about the style while in school, because it could take years to really build up a style. I was very discourage for many years because I felt my portfolio was not consistent and that I was trying to too hard to create a "style", and that the style wasn't really me. I don't know how long you have been shooting, but I think I would tell young newcomers to work, learn to work with clients, learn to work in as many situations as possible, build up your techniques, and keep your vision, try to negotiate your vision in each project, but don't get bend out of shape if your vision can't win over the client, because that's going to happen sometimes(could be budget, lack of time, lack of resource, or just insistent client), and just keep on doing it. Sometimes it's not the lighting that defines you, it could be the composition, the grain of the look you prefer(Steven Meisel), the emotions you like the subject to project, or preferring to use available light(Arthur Elgort), the intensity and saturation of color(Mario Testino), but through different projects, big and small, each artist's taste and point of view would always emerge, even in the smallest way.
