Lighting Tips

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This article is courtesy of photographer and software designer Andrew Funderburg of Fundy Software. Light painting with the is a lot of fun, and gives you a look you can't get anywhere else. It's a sim...

Bruce Dorn: Portraits with Speedlites (Part 5)

Bruce Dorn

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Explorer of Light and Westcott Top Pro Elite Bruce Dorn has been teaching Speedlite techniques around the country for years through Canon Live Learning and his own workshops. With the Canon Digital Learning Cen...

Bruce Dorn: Portraits with Speedlites (Part 3)

Bruce Dorn

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Explorer of Light and Westcott Top Pro Elite Bruce Dorn has been teaching techniques for speedlites around the country for years through Canon Live Learning and his own workshops. With the Canon Digital Learnin...

Bruce Dorn: Portraits with Speedlites

Bruce Dorn

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Explorer of Light and Westcott Top Pro Elite Bruce Dorn has been teaching techniques for speedlites around the country for years through Canon Live Learning and his own workshops. With the Canon Digital Learnin...

Pet Photography Made Easier with the Apollo Orb

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These pictures were taken at Love Thy Pet, a local community pet store in Brooklyn NY. Every year they give back to the community by offering Free Pet Photos. I started taking pictures for them during their pe...

Building the Dramatic Portrait

Joel Grimes

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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

Michael Corsentino

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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

Jen Rozenbaum

Lighting Tips, Reviews

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"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

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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

Michael Corsentino

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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

Michael Corsentino

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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...

Lighting Rumours: X-Drop Backdrop Review

Lighting Tips, Reviews

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The X-Drop Backdrop System was recently featured on Lighting Rumours. Bruce Foster, photographer out of the UK, reviewed the X-Drop with the Green Screen backdrop. If I had to sum up the X-Drop, I would ca...

Diffuse Light and Alter Light using the Scrim Jim

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Erik Valind, Professional Photographer and Westcott Top Pro, talks about his favorite product—the Westcott Scrim Jim. He walks you through how he uses each of the Scrim Jim panels to diffuse light and alter lig...

Scrim Jim: Thinking Outside the Box

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The Scrim Jim: Like a Swiss Army Knife When talking about different lighting modifiers I like to point out the basic features and benefits of each. Equally important though, is the outside of the box thinking ...

Comparing Large vs. Small Photo Umbrellas

Gear Guides, Lighting Tips

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Photographic umbrellas come in so many sizes nowadays, perhaps even more so than the common rain variety. Let's set aside those and the for a moment and discuss some key differences and techniques, when select...

Composite Photography Lit by the Spiderlite TD6

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In this composite of a mountain biker in Boulder, Colorado, Mark S. Johnson's goal was to capture the feeling of hopping off the bike after an epic (and muddy) ride. To accomplish the effect, he employed his st...

Black-and-White Action Shot Lighting Setup

João Carlos

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Black-and-White Action shot by photographer João Carlos using a The Medium Scrim Jim Kit is a useful photography tool that allows photographers to diffuse, reflect, cut down, or completely block light. Wit...

The Ice Light for Outdoor Fill

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The Ice Light, , is a new little lighting tool that resembles a light saber in a big way. This makes it a blast to use right out of the gates. It was designed for being mobile and easy to use in event photogr...

Shooting Outdoors: Headshots in the park

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Shooting Outdoors Rocks When given the choice between shooting in a studio or shooting outdoors in the world, I'll drag my camera gear and subject out that door any day of the week. The sheer volume of differe...

Directing Speedlites for Portraiture

Bob Davis