Create. Edit.
Build.
A complete method for becoming the equine photographer you want to be.
The method
Create · Edit · Build
Great equine photography is built on multiple skills. It’s learning how to understand horses, light and your camera. It’s developing your own creative vision and editing style. And for those who want to take their passion further, it’s learning how to turn that creativity into a professional photography business.
The Equine Photography Method brings all of those pieces together.
Create · Edit · Build
It’s more than learning how to use your camera
Becoming a photographer is a journey.
When you first pick up a camera, you might be thinking about settings, sharpness and whether you’re doing everything “right.” Then something changes.
You start noticing light differently. You become more intentional about locations, composition and connection. You learn how horses communicate. You discover what you love to photograph and how you want your images to feel.
Eventually, you stop simply taking photographs. You start creating them.
And for some photographers, that passion grows into something even bigger: a brand, a business and a career doing what they love.
The Equine Photography Method was created to support you throughout that journey.
Create
Master the art of equine photography.
Everything starts with learning how to create a powerful photograph by understanding what you’re doing and why. Learn how to work confidently with your camera, understand light, choose locations, create strong compositions and guide horses and their humans naturally. But equine photography asks for something extra. You’re working with an animal with its own emotions, reactions and boundaries. Understanding the horse is just as important as understanding your camera.
Inside CREATE, you’ll learn about:
Camera settings and equipment
Light and location
Composition and perspective
Horse behaviour and body language
Posing horses and humans
Connection and storytelling
Planning and running photoshoots
Working through challenging situations
The method
The three pillars
Edit
Bring your creative vision to life.
Taking the photograph is only part of the creative process. Editing is where you can refine your image, create atmosphere and turn what came out of your camera into the photograph you envisioned when you pressed the shutter.
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Inside EDIT, you’ll learn how to work confidently with Lightroom and Photoshop, refine your photographs and develop a consistent editing style that becomes part of your visual identity. Learn about:
Lightroom
Photoshop
Color and toning
Retouching
Removing distractions
Creative editing techniques
Workflow
Consistency
Developing your signature style
Build
Turn your passion into your photography business.
There comes a point where becoming a better photographer isn’t enough to build a successful photography business. You can create incredible work and still struggle to find clients. BUILD is about everything that happens around your photography. Your brand. Your positioning. Your offers. Your pricing. Your marketing. Your client experience. It’s about learning how to turn something you love doing into a business that supports the life you want to create.
Inside BUILD, we explore:
Branding and positioning
Finding your dream clients
Offers and photography packages
Pricing your work
Marketing
Social media
Sales
Client experience
Building a profitable photography business
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The goal isn’t to create another version of me.
It’s to help you become more of you. I can teach you how I photograph horses. I can show you how I work with light, how I edit my images and how I built my photography business. But I don’t want you to create photographs that look exactly like mine. I want you to understand the foundations, experiment, discover what you love and eventually create work that people recognize as yours. Because technique can be taught.
Your vision is what makes your photography yours.
Photographing horses is different.
They move and communicate. They have good days and difficult days. A beautiful equine photograph requires more than photography knowledge. You need to understand the animal standing in front of your camera. Knowing when a horse is relaxed. Recognizing tension. Understanding expression and body language. Knowing when to wait, when to change your approach and when not to ask for more.
That understanding is woven throughout The Equine Photography Method.
Because beautiful photographs should never come at the expense of the horse.
About the founder
Created from more than a decade behind the camera.
The Equine Photography Method was created by professional equine photographer and educator Eliane van Schaik.
For more than 15 years, I’ve photographed horses and their humans, built my own photography business and taught other photographers the skills I learned along the way.
I’ve taught thousands of photographers through my online education, spoken about equine photography at major photography and equestrian events and shared my expertise as a guest judge on Dutch television.
Everything inside The Equine Photography Method comes from real experience.
The things that worked and the things that didn’t. The lessons that I have learned. And the knowledge I wish I had when I first started photographing horses.
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