Indeed, Not All Photographers Think Alike

Federico Alegría
4 min readFeb 4, 2022
Photo by Alex Iby

Photographers have been stereotyped for quite a long time. Usually carrying more than one camera, sort of chubby and always wearing a vest or a quirky hat. Even though some photographers do look like that and have a profile picture with a camera in their face, not all of us think alike.

One must be aware of this situation mainly because of two reasons. First, if you are a client looking for a photographer you should know that there are various types of photographers and every one of us will deliver you different work. Second, and this is for the photographers reading us, you must see other photographers as peers and not competition.

Without further ado, let’s talk about why not all photographers are alike!

Not All Photographers Are Gear-heads

Or at least that is what I would like to think. Gear has become a huge concern among photographers, and even though there are many gear-head photographers, this mindset doesn’t correspond to all photographers alike. Many photographers have understood that cameras are only tools and as long as they understand light, the tool is secondary. It is almost like driving, as long as you know the basic act of driving, you can use a car to move from A to B. The same thing happens with photography, as long as you know how to expose and compose, it doesn’t matter which…

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