Top 5 Podcasts for Professional Photographers

you might not know this but this YouTube channel started out as a podcast also called Studio Builder one thing that's always frustrated me about producing podcasts is that discoverability for topically related podcasts is extremely low so in this video I'm going to quickly run down my favorite photography podcasts and give you a list of my top five my top five my top five default [Applause] hey what's up everybody my name is Kevin Patrick Robbins and this is Studio Builder I'm gonna do this as a countdown from number five to number one so buckle in all of these podcasts are still available for you to listen to not all of them are still pushing out episodes but every single one of them is great so let's ride this Vibe and get right into the list coming in at number five is photo Biz X Andrew helmich's photo Biz X has more than 500 episodes with a new episode released every week each episode features an interview with a photographer or a photography business coach with focused advice on a specific topic to improve your business some of the episodes in this podcast have literally fundamentally shaped my photography career and influenced a number of strategies around my marketing and promotions so subscribe to the podcast right after you click the button below and subscribe to this channel I'm trying to reach 5000 subscribers and only you can help make that happen so let's make that happen number four is photo Pros podcast with Rob Noel Robert Noel has been a friend and mentor to me for many years he interviewed me for my artist talk at my exhibit recently and his interviews with some of my favorite photographers are Stellar while he hasn't published many episodes only eight every single one of them is with a rock star photographer you will pretty much never hear from on any other podcast his interviews include Chris Nichols art Schreiber and Jill Greenberg they are fantastic and that's why even with only eight episodes this makes my top five coming in at number three is the candid frame with more than 600 episodes under his belt ibarian X pirello is the podcast king of Photography his exceptional storytelling fantastic interviews and let's admit it his sultry sugary voice make this one of my long time favorites I'm not usually a fan of long interview podcasts in fact I I kind of hate them but this one I make an exception for I just dial the speed up to 1.3 times coming in at number two is full-time photographer for quite a while when this podcast started Josh Rossi was pumping out an episode every Monday through Friday the questions were almost always the same and the format is clearly based on the entrepreneur on fire podcast there's clearly a connection there since Josh also did the artwork for that same podcast despite the somewhat repetitive nature of the show this podcast featured nearly 300 interviews with commercial photographers editorial photographers advertising photographers in an easily digestible format an episode shorter than 30 minutes it's the perfect link for a commute or a walk around the neighborhood and while you can probably only find the last 100 episodes online I managed to download every episode and have them on a Plex server so I can listen to them over and over again that's how inspiring this podcast was and is to me so it sticks The Landing in the number two position before I get to the number one podcast please tap that like button below if you're finding this at all helpful and that brings us to my number one pick and what I consider to be the best photography podcast in existence it's Heather Elder's dear art producer Heather Elder is a photo agent who interviews our producers about their careers and how they approach hiring and working with commercial photographers she covers everything from bidding to treatments to working on set to the transition from Stills production to integrated production if you are a commercial photographer this is the most peel back the curtains information you could ever wish for this podcast is so important to me that I spent some time last year trying to help her team improve the audio of the podcast Heather's voice was sometimes hard to hear and I'd be in my car turning the audio up and down constantly because the episodes weren't normalized and mastered that's not her fault it's not her team's fault they're photo agents they're not audio Engineers now I'm not sure if our conversations helped or if they figured it out on their own but the latest episodes sound fantastic Heather if you're seeing this or your team is seeing this I would love it if you could run all of your older episodes through a phonic or adobe's enhanced Beach Ai and then re-upload the new files you don't need to republish them just overwrite the original audio files in the original episodes and you're good to go people can just go back to the old episodes and when they download it they'll be downloading the new files no need to update your feed at all I'll link to both of those websites in the description below for you and that's it that's it for my list leave a comment and let me know what your favorite photography podcast is or if you just found some new gems to inspire you take care of yourself I'll see you in the next one