Explain what you mean by "style," Jeremy.
Not sure if you are being obtuse or argumentative.
Not sure how to answer that, because if you've got your age and still need such very basic things explaining, are you really going to understand it now?
Anyway lets try really simple - Style is a distinctive appearance or look. And if you need that explaining to you, then obtuse it is.
With a brush you pick up a thick impasto or a thin glaze and make deliberate strokes and touches. Your brushstrokes are as individual as your handwriting (at least if you still can do cursive). Do you really think how you point your camera, or how you press the shutter button constitutes a "style."
Two things wrong with that argument. Firstly comparing end result with process, brushstrokes are the end result of however you paint and holding a camera is a part of the process. Comparing
how you hold a brush and
where you position a camera would be more meaningful. Platon's work with his seated portraits is immediately recognisable because of his camera positioning . Which is a major part of his style.
A change of grip or handhold on camera rarely has any impact on the photo, particularly as you do not even need to hold a camera to take a photo.
Secondly if brushstrokes were indeed that individual, then all the art experts that have been fooled by forgeries over the years would not have been.
As already illustrated by Isaac in the case of Rembrandt and all the Rembrandts that he did not in fact paint.