Lighting Tips

Making On-Camera Flash Look Natural Using the FJ80

The Essential Guide To The FJ Wireless Flash System

Flash Photography Lighting Video Course for Beginners

Go-To High-Volume Headshot Lighting Setups

Professional Lighting with Food Photographer Joanie Simon

Directing Speedlites for Portraiture

Shooting with Perspective

Using Apollo Orb to Control Light with Speedlites

Large Octabank Alternatives for Portability

Speedlites for Action Photography

Scott Kelby: Rules of Composition

Commercial Shoot: Sushi Photo Setup

Portrait Shoot using an Apollo and Stripbanks

Interview with Erik Valind on Environmental Portraits

Outdoor Portrait Shoot using a Scrim Jim

Outdoor Football Portrait using a Scrim Jim

Product Shoot: Super Bowl Ring Shot with Strobelite Plus

Dark Field Photography Tips and Techniques

Behind the Portrait with Strobist Rick Nunn

Behind the Scenes: Strobist Portraits in a Warehouse

Understanding Catchlights

Joel Grimes’ Dramatic Composites with Blake Griffin

Using Natural Light Outdoors for a Romantic Concept Shoot

Easy Lighting Setups for Boudoir Photography

Making On-Camera Flash Look Natural Using the FJ80

The Essential Guide To The FJ Wireless Flash System

Flash Photography Lighting Video Course for Beginners

Go-To High-Volume Headshot Lighting Setups

Professional Lighting with Food Photographer Joanie Simon

Using Photography Gels On Location with the FJ80 Touchscreen Speedlight

How to Assemble the Westcott Eyelighter

High-Speed Sync Portraits in Full Sun Using the FJ200 Strobe

Capturing Product Photography With The DigiTent Light Tent

How to Set Up the HurleyPro ProBoard with Light Stands

Improve Your Lighting During Video Calls at Home Using the Ring Light Kit

The Essential Guide to Photography Backdrops

The Essential Guide to Photo Umbrellas

Making On-Camera Flash Look Natural Using the FJ80

The Essential Guide To The FJ Wireless Flash System

Flash Photography Lighting Video Course for Beginners

Go-To High-Volume Headshot Lighting Setups

Professional Lighting with Food Photographer Joanie Simon

Directing Speedlites for Portraiture

Shooting with Perspective

Using Apollo Orb to Control Light with Speedlites

Large Octabank Alternatives for Portability

Speedlites for Action Photography

Scott Kelby: Rules of Composition

Commercial Shoot: Sushi Photo Setup

Portrait Shoot using an Apollo and Stripbanks

Interview with Erik Valind on Environmental Portraits

Outdoor Portrait Shoot using a Scrim Jim

Outdoor Football Portrait using a Scrim Jim

Product Shoot: Super Bowl Ring Shot with Strobelite Plus

Dark Field Photography Tips and Techniques

Behind the Portrait with Strobist Rick Nunn

Behind the Scenes: Strobist Portraits in a Warehouse

Understanding Catchlights

Joel Grimes’ Dramatic Composites with Blake Griffin

Using Natural Light Outdoors for a Romantic Concept Shoot

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Bob Davis

Lighting Tips

For this portrait shoot, Bob Davis had two speedlites in Group B manual mode 1/8th power with the flash heads manually zoomed to 200mm. One camera left and one camera right. The main speedlite was in Group A wi...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Perspective It's good to have a little perspective - to know where you stand and just how big (or small) your world and the things in it are. Most pictures we see include something we recognize - a perso...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

F11, 1/500th, ISO 200 Levels Aimed At: Simple lighting setup with a little practice. One light source (Key light), setup. Controlling background exposure to render your creative results. Anything I should k...

Erik Valind

Lighting Tips, Reviews

Most photographers love Octabanks. The light quality if amazing! Unfortunately, they are not easy on the wallet or easy to transport either. Usually rather heavy, they require a specific speed-ring to use with ...

Tyler Stableford

Lighting Tips

Explorer of Light Tyler Stableford takes us to the legendary Snowmass Terrain Park in Snowmass, Colorado, where he utilizes the radio functionality of the Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite system to achieve a perfect ba...

Scott Kelby

Lighting Tips

A few weeks back, Scott Kelby hosted the first ever Google + Conference for photographers. In a lecture (over an hour long) Scott sheds light on how he believes photographers should work their scenes to find th...

Eric Eggly

Lighting Tips

Commercial shoot by photographer Eric Eggly using a Westcott Strobelite plus, , Scrim Jim with 1-1/4 Stop Diffusion Fabric, and a 10' Light Stand. The Westcott Strobelite Plus allows photographers to previe...

Erik Valind

Lighting Tips

This portrait shoot by photographer Erik Valind is set up with a Westcott 50-inch Apollo as the main light source, and two 12" x 36" Pro Stripbanks acting as rim lights, coming in from the side. The 50″ Mega...

Erik Valind

Lighting Tips

Commercial, portrait, and lifestyle photographer Erik Valind joins Henry's TV host Mark Shannon on the Henry's TV stage at Exposure Spring 2012 to share some tips and tricks on creating better environmental por...

Erik Valind

Lighting Tips

Outdoor Portrait shoot by photographer Erik Valind using a Westcott Large Scrim Jim. The Large Scrim Jim Kit is a useful photography tool that allows photographers to diffuse light, reflect light, cut down l...

Jim Schmelzer

Lighting Tips

This lighting setup and final image was provided by photographer Jim Schmelzer. Jim used the Westcott Medium Scrim Jim overhead his subject so that there were no shadows on the football player, and that he cou...

Hernan Rodriguez

Lighting Tips

Take a look behind the scenes at this product shoot of a Super Bowl ring shot by photographer Hernan Rodriguez using two Westcott Strobelite Plus units, two Westcott Scrim Jims with 1-1/4 Stop Diffusion Fabric ...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Photo by: Scott Valentine You know those images of wine glasses that have glowing edges against a solid black background? The technique (called "dark field" photography) is a popular studio approach for showi...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

This behind the portrait blog is courtesy of strobist photographer and design Rick Nunn. Last Saturday I headed to Tokyo to do a shoot for a friend. This first set up needed to be super dramatic so I had two...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

This article is courtesy of designer and strobist photographer Rick Nunn of Lincoln, England. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a lit portrait, so I text my friend Leah & arranged something for ...

Erik Valind

Lighting Tips

The specific shapes of light modifiers come into play in how they shape light and how we apply them to our subject or scene. If we zoom into the eyes of our subjects and take note of the shape of the catchlight...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

When renowned Canon Explorer of Light Joel Grimes photographed Detroit Piston's basketball star Blake Griffin, he knew he wanted to create a grungy, dramatic set of images despite their pretty standard gym loca...

Joao Carlos

Lighting Tips

In these works, Portugal-based fashion photographer Joâo Carlos pairs the literature of love tragedies through the ages with these stunning outdoor fashion portraits. These images have a composition and balance...

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