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

On Location with Joao Carlos and the Ice Light

Creating Dramatic Boudoir Photography

Emphasizing Details in Bridal Portraits

How to Get the Best Facial Expressions for Your Portraits

Tabletop and Overhead B-Roll Lighting Tips

3 Ways To Use Plexiglass For Creative Portraits

Pre-Production Tips for Small Filmmaking Crews

Our Top 5 Wedding Photography Lighting Tools

The Essential Guide to Backdrops

The Essential Guide to Photo Umbrellas

White Eyelighter vs. Silver Eyelighter Portraits

The Essential Guide to Photo Reflectors

5 Ways to Use the Scrim Jim DP Kit

Parabolic Modifiers vs. Traditional Octabanks

Creating Dramatic Boudoir Photography

Emphasizing Details in Bridal Portraits

How to Get the Best Facial Expressions for Your Portraits

Tabletop and Overhead B-Roll Lighting Tips

3 Ways To Use Plexiglass For Creative Portraits

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

Getting The Most Out Of Flash Photography

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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