Building the Dramatic Portrait
Westcott invites you to an inspirational lecture with Joel Grimes, a commercial advertising photographer, who has been working in the industry for over 30 years. Many consider Joel to be one of the leading inst...
The Art of Portrait Photography: Part 4
Environmental Portraits
Posing singer Melissa Phillippe in front of her piano adds context and helps create a portrait that reflects her passions. Shooting form a position above the subject has a slimming effe...
Between the Sheets with Jen: Ice Light Review
"My answer is YES YES YES. I love the Ice Light. The first thing that attracted me to it is the quality of light. It really blew away any of those cheap video lights out there." - Jen Rozenbaum
I often...
Using Diffusion Fast Flags for Portraits
Lan and I decided to shoot a couple of new avatars for ourselves today since the ones we have been using are 3 years old and we don’t really look the same (I’m now a little fatter and a LOT balder, but Lan is m...
The Art of Portrait Photography: Part 2
Executive & Business Portraits
In this executive portrait the goal is the same but the approach is more subdued, formal and professional in nature. The look and feel for any portrait? is generally dete...
The Art of the Portrait Photography: Part 1
Portraits were some of the first images to grab my attention and draw me into my lifelong love affair with photography. The portrait work of Richard Avedon, with their stark black and white imagery, many shot o...
How I Captured This Image at Boot Hill Cemetery
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Photo by: Bruce Roscoe
This image was taken in Tombstone at Boothill Cemetery following the Tombstone Trolley Ghost and Murder Tour with Parson George and Lee. The cemetery is one of the stops during the tour...