The Equine Photographers Podcast

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One of my favorite current podcasts in Sprouting Photographer Podcast where they interview professional photographers and discuss what makes their business work, or a special topic of interest to photographers. Sprouting is not so much about taking better pictures, but more about the business of photography. With the Equine Photographers Podcast we are focusing down to one niche' area. It's not event photography. It's not just portrait photography. We are interviewing equine photographers about their businesses and their love of horses. With each episode and each photographer that we interview, we hope that you will stop by our website (under construction) and tell us your "take-away" from the podcast? What is the ONE THING that you heard and want to implement in your business? We will be interviewing stallion photographers who only photograph Arab stallions. We will be interviewing people who only take portraits of people with their equine companion or their competitive partners. There are wild horse art photographers, cowboy photographers, rodeo photographers, and so on. My partner in this podcast focuses her photography of horse of Belgium working horses and old country. There are those who only shoot minis and others that are very diversified into a lot of areas. We want to explore all that in regular podcasts that will be fun to listen to and provide opportunities to learn for everyone. I think it can be said that a photographer who thinks he knows it all is stuck, they are no longer learning in something that could be a lifelong learning opportunity for them. The same could be said about people and horses. We can learn from horses for a lifetime, or we can get stuck and think we know all there is to know. Which one are you? If you are one that views both horses and equine photography and the business of equine photography as opportunities for life long learning, then we hope you will SUBSCRIBE and tune in for each episode of The Equine Photographers Podcast. We feel that our interviews can be fun for those who do not have an interest in being in the business of equine photography. If you just love taking pictures of horses, you own or others or those in the wild, you will learn something about the heart of the equine photographer with each episode. Thanks,

Suzanne Sylvester

Nobody owes you more money because you’ve been a photographer for 20 years.They pay you for what those 20 years allow yo...
09/08/2026

Nobody owes you more money because you’ve been a photographer for 20 years.

They pay you for what those 20 years allow you to do.

You see the horse about to move before it moves.

You know where the action is going to happen before it happens.

You know which frame the client actually wants — and it isn’t always the technically perfect one.

You can walk into sh*tty light, changing schedules, uncooperative horses, equipment problems and everything else that happens on a real job and still deliver.

THAT is where experience becomes valuable.

Not because it took you 20 years to learn.

Because the client gets the benefit of those 20 years.

Experience doesn’t create value just because you accumulated it.

It creates value when it changes the outcome.

A client told you that you’re too expensive.That does NOT automatically mean they “don’t value photography.”Maybe they l...
09/05/2026

A client told you that you’re too expensive.

That does NOT automatically mean they “don’t value photography.”

Maybe they love your photography.

Maybe they think you’re incredibly talented.

Maybe they simply don’t have the budget. Maybe they have the money and would rather spend it somewhere else. Maybe what you offer is more than they need. Maybe another photographer is a better fit.

And maybe they really are just looking for the cheapest photographer they can find.

So what?

They’re allowed to say no.

And you’re allowed to say no, too.

The goal of pricing isn’t to get everybody to say yes. It’s to get enough of the right clients to say yes at a price that allows you to run a profitable business.

Sometimes a no is just a no.

It doesn’t have to be an insult.

“Charge what you’re worth.”Okay.How much are you worth?$500? $5,000? $20,000?And how exactly did we calculate that?We re...
09/03/2026

“Charge what you’re worth.”

Okay.

How much are you worth?

$500? $5,000? $20,000?

And how exactly did we calculate that?

We repeat “charge what you’re worth” constantly in photography business conversations because it sounds empowering. The problem is that it takes something that should be a business decision and turns it into an emotional one.

Your pricing can be wrong. Your market can be wrong. Your offer can be wrong. You can raise your prices, lower them, restructure them or throw out an entire service and start over.

None of that changes your worth.

In this week’s Field Notes, I’m talking about why I think we need to retire “charge what you’re worth” — and the questions photographers should actually be asking when they set their prices.

🎙 Your Price Has Nothing to Do With Your Worth

Listen now: https://equinephotographerspodcast.com/your-price-has-nothing-to-do-with-your-worth/

If you could change one thing about the equine photography industry, what would it be?
09/01/2026

If you could change one thing about the equine photography industry, what would it be?

There is a strange idea that commercial photography somehow limits creativity.I think it can do exactly the opposite.Giv...
09/01/2026

There is a strange idea that commercial photography somehow limits creativity.

I think it can do exactly the opposite.

Give me a beautiful horse in a field and tell me to make whatever I want, and I have almost unlimited options.

Now tell me the image needs to be horizontal. The horse has to be immediately identifiable. The farm logo needs to remain visible. We need negative space on the left for copy. The photograph has to work in print and online. And it still needs to stop someone long enough to actually look at it.

Now I have a problem to solve.

That is creativity, too.

Professional photography isn't always about having complete creative freedom. Sometimes it's about taking everything you know about light, composition, timing and storytelling and figuring out how to make something great inside the boundaries of what the client actually needs.

You can nail the exposure.You can have beautiful light, perfect focus and a composition you're incredibly proud of.And y...
08/29/2026

You can nail the exposure.

You can have beautiful light, perfect focus and a composition you're incredibly proud of.

And you can still miss the assignment.

That's one of the differences between simply making photographs and working professionally for clients.

If a client needs an image for an advertisement, it doesn't matter that your favorite frame has spectacular dramatic lighting if the product disappears into the shadows. If they need a horizontal image with room for copy, your incredible tight vertical portrait may be completely useless to them.

That doesn't make the vertical portrait a bad photograph.

It makes it the wrong photograph for that job.

Part of becoming a stronger working photographer is learning to stop asking only, “How do I make a great photograph?”

You also have to ask, “What does my client need this photograph to accomplish?”

A beautiful photograph can still fail the assignment.We spend a lot of time talking about how to make better photographs...
08/27/2026

A beautiful photograph can still fail the assignment.

We spend a lot of time talking about how to make better photographs—better light, better composition, better timing, better editing. But there is a question that needs to come before all of that:

What is this photograph supposed to do?

Document a moment? Accurately represent a horse? Sell something? Communicate a brand? Solve a commercial client's problem? Or simply explore an idea you wanted to create?

Those are very different jobs, and they don't necessarily require the same photographs.

In this week's Field Notes episode of the Equine Photographers Podcast, we're talking about art, documentation, marketing and commercial photography—and why understanding the assignment can be just as important as knowing how to use the camera.

🎙️ What Job Is the Photograph Supposed to Do?
https://equinephotographerspodcast.com/what-job-is-the-photograph-supposed-to-do/

BONUS EPISODE 🎙️ 10 YEARS LATER: PHYLLIS BURCHETTTen years ago, Phyllis Burchett joined me on the Equine Photographers P...
08/25/2026

BONUS EPISODE 🎙️ 10 YEARS LATER: PHYLLIS BURCHETT

Ten years ago, Phyllis Burchett joined me on the Equine Photographers Podcast to talk about her photography, her business, and the path that brought her from decades in the horse industry into fine art equine photography.

A lot can happen in ten years.

In this bonus 10 Years Later episode, Phyllis is back, and we're talking about what actually happened after that first conversation — how her work evolved, how the business changed, what COVID changed for photographers, and what decades of experience teach you about finding your place in this industry.

We also talk about something that doesn't get discussed nearly enough: what happens when the place you built for yourself isn't necessarily the place you want to stay forever.

And, of course, I asked the question I'm asking everyone in this series:

Knowing everything you know now, would you choose photography again?

Phyllis has enough years behind the camera — and around horses — to give that question some weight.

🎙️ BONUS EPISODE: 10 Years Later with Phyllis Burchett

Listen now on the Equine Photographers Podcast.

One of the strangest things about horse show photography policies is how quickly they become personal.An exhibitor doesn...
08/25/2026

One of the strangest things about horse show photography policies is how quickly they become personal.

An exhibitor doesn't like a restriction, so the official photographer gets blamed. A private client photographer doesn't receive access, so the official must be protecting their territory. Someone is told they can't photograph in a particular area, and suddenly it's the photographer telling everyone what they can and cannot do.

Except sometimes the photographer you're angry with didn't write the policy, approve it, or have the authority to change it.

They're simply the most visible person working under it.

You can absolutely question whether a policy makes sense. You can disagree with it. You can believe it needs to change.

But before directing that frustration at another photographer, it helps to know who actually made the decision.

Sometimes we're asking the wrong person.

One of the strangest things about horse show photography policies is how quickly they become personal.An exhibitor doesn...
08/22/2026

One of the strangest things about horse show photography policies is how quickly they become personal.

An exhibitor doesn't like a restriction, so the official photographer gets blamed. A private client photographer doesn't receive access, so the official must be protecting their territory. Someone is told they can't photograph in a particular area, and suddenly it's the photographer telling everyone what they can and cannot do.

Except sometimes the photographer you're angry with didn't write the policy, approve it, or have the authority to change it.

They're simply the most visible person working under it.

That's an important distinction, because you can absolutely question whether a policy makes sense. You can disagree with it. You can believe it needs to change.

But first, it helps to know who actually made the decision.

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