I specialise in photography of the nude. When I give workshops for people new to that field, I spend quite some time on personal style. Basically this comes down to me pointing out what I think is clichéd, trite, dubious and downright ugly in nude photography (and what is admirable), and discussing what I try to achieve in my own work and why. Many male beginners* seem content just to take what I call 'safari' photos - whole-body snaps of models the equivalents of whose poses can easily be found among lions, baboons, and giraffes, etc. Like hunters, photographers talk about 'good shots' and 'capturing images'. I feel duty-bound to discourage this 'safari' approach to photographing the nude. One of the most important lessons I try to teach is that the human body should be visually deconstructed, as it were, and new viewpoints sought by means of both careful poses and subtle lighting. As with landscape photography (with which nude photography shares some obvious characteristics), there would appear to be little new one can bring to photographing bodies, except more of the beautiful same. But this is not enough, if one takes one's art seriously. The aim should be to innovate, to see 'beyond'.
Perhaps personal styles cannot be taught, but they should be sought. And they should evolve.
*Female beginners are immediately more creative, I have noted, even if they have less experience with a camera. Male and female gazes, I suppose.