Team Portrait Posing Tips
Westcott Top Pro Matt Hernandez began his career as an award-winning graphic artist, then combined his love of photography with his design background and love of sports to become one of the country's premier sp...
Lighting On the Fly with Dixie Dixon
This article is courtesy of renowned beauty and fashion photographer Dixie Dixon.
As a Commercial Fashion and Beauty Photographer, I am always focused on bringing out the real raw beauty and personality of m...
How to Light for a Composite Image
Creating a professional-quality composite image usually requires a lengthy editing session. For photographers who are not very efficient or experienced in Photoshop and Lightroom, this can become a long and ted...
Dramatic and Effective Lighting for Team Portraits
Renowned sports photographer Matt Hernandez has had years of experience capturing professional and high school team portraits. Through years of shooting in a variety of locations, he has perfected the group lig...
Timeless Fashion Portraits with the Zeppelin
This image is from fashion portraits I shot recently while testing out the incredible . This modifier is fantastic for full body fashion portraits because of its large size. This helps to maintain even, soft li...
Using a Silver Bounce Umbrella on Major Productions
As the Director of Photography for Saturday Night Live's Film Unit, Alex Buono has had the ability to "play" with lots of different lighting equipment, finding the best options for illuminating a massive variet...
Mastering the Art of Macro Photography
From broken glass to small twigs, professional macro photographer Monica Royal uses a lot of creativity to capture beautiful images of small subjects. Macro photography, often considered a fine art, is a creati...
Location Lighting Using The Rapid Box: Share The Light
Lighting can separate you from the pack, using light to define your style and elevate the quality of your work is as important now as it was back in the day when you had to light to capture an image.
Today the...
Food Styling Tips for Tasty Images
For photographers new to photographing food, food styling may seem a bit daunting. People can make a successful career out of styling food for magazines and blogs. Luckily, Seattle-based food photographer Steve...
How to Light Faces with Jerry Ghionis
Westcott Top Pro Elite photographer Jerry Ghionis is widely considered to be one of the best wedding photographers in the world. Along with his wife Melissa, Jerry shares his expertise on posing, creative frami...
Environmental Portraiture vs. Location Portraiture
In this informative article and video, New York environmental photographer Benny Migs discusses the differences between environmental portraits and location portraits.
Environmental Portraiture
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Maximize Your Senior Portrait Session
As part of Summit Online's team of photography instructors, Westcott Top Pro Matt Hernandez takes a senior portrait session outdoors to offer tips on capturing professional images for your clients.
A key to ...
Inspiringly Easy High School Senior Portraits
Westcott Top Pro photographer Kevin Kubota heads to a park near Westcott HQ to capture effortless high school senior portraits with the speedlite modifier.
Designed by Kubota, the LunaGrip is a unique g...
How to Overpower the Sun with Only 1 Softbox
While shooting on a roof top in Ottawa, Canada, Top Pro lifestyle photographer Justin Van Leeuwen experiments with diffusion and modification options to best overpower the sun to capture the best portraits of h...
Capturing Professional Portraits in a Tiny Studio
While some photographers may be fortunate enough to own adequate or large studio space, many photographers and photography enthusiasts must learn to shoot in whatever space is available. This space may often be...
Creating Awesome Senior Portraits with Only One Light Source
Kentucky sports and senior portrait photographer Matt Hernandez is known for capturing dramatic, awesome senior portraits with relatively simple lighting setups.
To capture these dramatic images of Cash, a h...
How to Pose for Portraits in Small Spaces
In Part 2 of Sigma's boudoir photography series, Westcott Top Pro photographer Jen Rozenbaum discusses how to pose your client in a small location or studio.
While scouting for portrait locations at a historic...
Capturing Memorable Wedding Cinemagraphs with the Ice Light
Westcott Top Pro photographer Jim Schmelzer utilizes multiple Westcott Ice Lights to capture beautiful wedding cinemagraphs in this video tutorial.
Cinemagraphs, often called "living photos", are a contempor...
The Must-Have Modifier for Studio Fashion Photography
In Westcott Top Pro photographer Craig Beckta's latest behind-the-scenes video, he gives us a fantastic view of his studio fashion photography setup. For this photo shoot, Craig utilizes a 35" Zeppelin Deep Par...
The Essentials of Motivated Lighting for Cinematography
In his second part of the ‘Storytelling with Cinematography’ series, DSLRguide's Simon Cade focuses on the way that filmmakers can use lighting to tell a story. He takes a deeper look at the different aspects o...
Behind the Scenes of a 6 Hour Athletic Photo Shoot
"I got the green light from OhYeah! Nutrition to shoot their upcoming campaign featuring “weekend warriors” having an OhYeah! moment. To say these athletes are weekend warriors is a bit misleading, considering ...