If you attend a workshop, zoom meeting, camera club program, photo conference presentation by a professional photographer whether it be a landscape photographer, wildlife photographer, macro photographer like me or any other kind of photographer, you would probably expect to hear that they use expensive professional camera bodies and lenses, full blown photoshop for processing their images, top of the line tripod and head, and shoot raw mode.
Now if you attended any of my workshops, presentation though a zoom program, camera club program, speaking at a photo conference, you would have heard the opposite of what you would have expected from a person making a living for 21 years as a professional photographer.
I've never owned an expensive pro camera body, my current Fuji mirrorless camera body sells for $899, and I recently saw the Nikon DSLR I own for sale for $875, and that included a lens.
For the last five years I have processed my images with Smart Photo Editor, which as a standalone program sells for only $29, and not Photoshop/Lightroom like all pro use.
My Vanguard tripod sells for $229, which is much less than the Gitzo and Really Right Stuff tripods that many pros use.
Pro Photographers will tell you always shoot in RAW mode, never jpeg, but you'll be surprised to hear all my images are jpegs, I've never shot in the RAW mode.
I prefer Tamron lenses rather than the Nikon or Fuji Lenses for my Nikon and Fuji camera bodies.
So, I'm opposite of all pro photographers and it's been working great for my 21 years in business.