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What Happens When 3 Photographers Shoot the Same Model — And What It Teaches You About Your Own Style
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What Happens When 3 Photographers Shoot the Same Model — And What It Teaches You About Your Own Style

I’ve been shooting portrait sessions for years, and one of the questions I still get tripped up by is this: how much of a “good photo” is technical skill versus personal vision? I had a client session last month where everything was correct on paper — the light was soft, my settings were dialed in, the location was beautiful — and the images still felt flat to me. Not bad. Just… mine-shaped.

What Happens When Three Photographers Shoot the Same Model (And What It Taught Me About My Own Eye)
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What Happens When Three Photographers Shoot the Same Model (And What It Taught Me About My Own Eye)

I used to think that if two photographers stood in the same spot with the same gear, they’d come back with more or less the same photo. I held onto that assumption for longer than I’d like to admit. It wasn’t until I started shooting with other photographers on my Sunday morning photo walks that I realized how wrong I was. Same light, same street corner, sometimes the same focal length, and we’d come back with images that looked like they were taken on different days by different people.