Make an analysis of yourself as a photographer
With two simple steps, you can get a detailed analysis of which type of photographer best suits your personality. -Take the free personality test at bigfive-test.com, where you choose your preferred language and start the test. It consists of 120 questions with fixed answer options and takes about 10 minutes.
Then download the test results in PDF format and paste them into an AI engine, asking it to analyze which types of subjects would suit you best as a photographer based on your “Big Five test” answers. Below, you will see what the AI engine Gemini responded with in my own analysis. This is a very interesting use of AI as an analysis tool. You can of course ask different questions based on the test you’ve taken, and only your imagination sets the limits for what you can get out on the other end.
I ask Gemini Ai:
“Based on the attached document (the pdf from the test was added first of course), can you create a photographic profile that indicates subject types that would suit my work as a photographer. What type of photography—what kinds of subjects—would fit my personality? And is there anything that indicates whether I’m better suited to color photography or black-and-white photography?”
Gemini responds:
Based on your results from the Big Five test, I have developed a photographic profile. You have a very unique and strong profile: you score low on neuroticism (calm/stable), but high on all four of the other domains (extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness).
This indicates a photographer who is both creative, structured, socially skilled, and emotionally stable. Here is the analysis of which subjects and styles suit you:
Your Photographic Archetype: “The Empathetic Storyteller”
You have a rare combination of high aesthetic sensitivity (score 14) and extremely high conscientiousness/orderliness (score 18). This means you are not a “chaotic artist,” but rather a purposeful creator who delivers high quality with people at the center.
1. What type of photography suits you?
Given your high extraversion (score 100) and agreeableness (score 97), you are least likely to thrive alone in a studio with lifeless objects. You draw energy from interacting with others.
- Portrait and lifestyle photography: You have high friendliness (17) and sociability (13). You are able to help people relax, and your high trust (18) means your subjects will trust you. Your high sensitivity (15) allows you to capture genuine emotions, not just surfaces.
- Wedding and event photography (high-end): This can be stressful for many, but your low neuroticism (20) and low vulnerability (9) mean you remain calm, confident, and clear-headed when things heat up. At the same time, your high sense of duty (18) ensures that you deliver exactly as agreed.
- Humanitarian or documentary photography: With very high morality (19) and altruism (17), photography that serves a greater purpose or helps others will appeal to you. You want to be honest and sincere in your work.
2. Types of subjects
Your results point toward subjects that combine beauty with structure and human warmth.
- People in natural interaction: You score high on positive emotions (15). Subjects that convey joy, enthusiasm, and togetherness will come naturally to you. You are not the type for dark, bleak social realism (“misery porn”), but rather uplifting stories.
- Structured compositions: Your extremely high score on order (18) means cluttered images will bother you. You will instinctively seek subjects with clean composition, lines, and balance. You will enjoy “tidying up” the viewfinder before taking the shot.
- Travel and culture: With high adventurousness (16) and high openness (89), you love new experiences and places. However, since you have low excitement-seeking (7), you are not drawn to danger or extreme risk, but rather to cultural depth and aesthetic experiences.
3. Color or black-and-white?
This is an interesting point where your personality pulls in two directions, but they can be reconciled:
Indications for color photography (primary):
- You score high on positive emotions (15) and activity (17). Color is often the language of energy, joy of life, and dynamism.
- Your high aesthetics score (14) reflects an appreciation for beauty in nature and art, which is often driven by color interplay.
- Recommendation: You will likely prefer a natural but vibrant color palette—not “grungy” or desaturated, but colors that celebrate reality.
Indications for black-and-white (secondary/artistic):
- Black-and-white photography often emphasizes structure, form, and emotional depth without distractions.
- Given your high orderliness (18) and high intellect (16), you will appreciate the “clean” and analytical nature of black-and-white photography. It appeals to the side of you that enjoys solving visual “puzzles” and removing noise.
Conclusion:
You are likely a color photographer at heart when documenting people and the joy of life (which aligns with your extraversion), but you will gain great satisfaction from black-and-white when working on more abstract, structured, or deeply emotional portrait projects.
Summary of your strength as a photographer
Your “superpower” is the combination of empathy and execution ability. Many creative photographers (high openness) struggle to deliver on time or organize files (low conscientiousness). You have both. You are the photographer clients love because you are pleasant to work with, take beautiful images, and deliver the fully edited files exactly when you said you would.
My own conclusion, -is that Gemini was wrong on one point: -that color images are closest to my heart.
I actually prefer black-and-white about 90 percent of the time. So there was a small flaw in the analysis. Still, an entertaining read overall.