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FJ80 Speedlight

How to Use a Speedlight for Portraits

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips

Square Softboxes vs Octa Softboxes

Team Westcott
Gear Guides, Lighting Tips
One Light Setup L60-B COB

Creating High-Fashion Portrait Lighting

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Lighting Tips
FJ200 with the 24" Beauty Dish and FJ-X3 Trigger

Retro Photo Shoot using High-Speed Sync with the FJ-X3 Trigger

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Lighting Tips

Taking Your Photo Studio On-Location

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Lighting Tips

Creating a Sense of Environment with the Optical Spot by Lindsay Adler

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Lighting Tips
Creating textures and patterns of light on your subject or a blank surface can add new life to your photos. If you’re looking to step out of your comfort zone and mundane routine of shooting on plain solid back...
BTS with 43 Inch Umbrella

Easy Tips to Create 3 Unique Looks in 1 Photo Shoot – Lighting Gear Breakdown

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
Are you looking to create multiple different shots in one photo shoot? In this tutorial, photographer and Top Pro, Ashley Boring, guides you through the lighting breakdown of three different looks from a floral...
Eyelighter with Deep Umbrella

Portrait Lighting Tips to Avoiding Glare in Glasses

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
When photographing subjects that are wearing glasses, you often run into the issue of capturing a glare off the lens. In this tutorial, photographer Ashley Boring walks you through avoiding unwanted glare when ...

Stepping Out Of Your Comfort Zone As A Photographer

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Lighting Tips
Your comfort zone provides you with a lot of great values when you’re in the groove of progress and success. It’s safe. It’s reliable. It gives you no reason to try new things. Being comfortable with your photo...

Go-To Composition & Lighting Tips for Outdoor Portraits Using The FJ200

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Lighting Tips
Evaluating the setup for your photo shoot involves a lot of technical details, including light placement and control, as well as the overall composition of the photo. In this tutorial, Westcott Top Pro Photogra...

Beauty Dish Vs FJ200 Reflector

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
Most strobes come with a small metal reflector to help you control and modify your light. It helps direct light output more than using a bare bulb, but using this reflector will give you hard light that often d...

Making On-Camera Flash Look Natural Using the FJ80

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
In this video, Westcott’s in-house photographer, Ashley Boring discusses the many reasons why a photographer might want to make on camera flash look natural. When you are working in a tighter room or shooting w...

The Essential Guide To The FJ Wireless Flash System

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Lighting Tips
With the expansion of our flash photography gear, choosing the right strobe or speedlight may feel overwhelming. Our FJ Wireless Flash System with multi-brand compatible transmitters allows you to capture incre...
Flash Photography For Beginners

Flash Photography Lighting Video Course for Beginners

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Join Westcott’s Brandon Heiss in this deep dive on flash photography using the FJ Wireless Flash System. In this free photography lighting video course, you’ll learn about on-camera lighting vs off-camera ligh...

Go-To High-Volume Headshot Lighting Setups

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In this portrait photography video, Yaneck Wasiek, Westcott Top Pro and Founder of Wasio Faces, explains how he approaches individual headshot sessions and how to capture high-volume photos at business events a...

Professional Lighting with Food Photographer Joanie Simon

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Commercial and editorial food photographer, food blogger and educator Joanie Simon, iconically known on social media as, “The Bite Shot”, captures captivating images of cuisines covering the entire food pyramid...

Using Photography Gels On Location with the FJ80 Touchscreen Speedlight

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
When it comes to using color gels for photography lighting, there are two main reasons why you would want to create a setup with this simple strobe accessory. The first reason is technical, allowing you to bala...
Purple Skies with FJ400

Couple’s Portraits On Location Using One Light with Sal Cincotta and the FJ400 Strobe

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Lighting Tips
Professional photographer, Sal Cincotta guides us through this couples portrait using a one-light flash set up located at the mesmerizing Salt Flats in Bonneville, Utah. Demonstrating his knowledge and years of...

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

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Gear Guides, Lighting Tips
Top Pro and photography educator, Eli Infante, walks us through a Texas-based photo shoot in midday sun using the FJ200 strobe to capture high-speed sync (HSS) portraits. Eli finds the FJ200 strobe’s exposed fl...

Capturing Product Photography With The DigiTent Light Tent

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Created with e-commerce and marketplace sellers in mind, the DigiTent Light Tent provides a perfect compact diffused space to photograph jewelry, handheld items, and craft supplies. With the DigiTent Light Tent...
The fresnel feature on the Learning Light

Using the Learning Light When Teaching Photography Lighting Principles

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Lighting Tips
For many years, Top Pro photographer, designer, and award-winning author, Scott Kelby was determined to help educators teach photography principles using a convenient and efficient handheld device. Capturing po...

Capturing Individual and Family Portraits Indoors and Outdoors with Michele Celentano

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In this portrait masters video, photographer Michele Celentano explains her lighting techniques for individuals and family portrait photography. Michele begins with photographing a family of four with the Westc...

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

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Gear Guides, Lighting Tips
Have you been using window light as your main source for video conferencing and virtual interviews? The Bi-Color Ring Light Kit is complete with features to make your work from home virtual meetings stand out. ...
strobe vs natural light

Benefits Of Off-Camera Flash Vs Natural Light For Outdoor Portraits

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
As a portrait photographer, it’s important to be aware of the lighting conditions that you face in natural environments. Whether you are looking to use natural light or off-camera flash when shooting outdoor po...
outdoor portrait with Ice Light 2

Learn How Jerry Ghionis Shoots Outdoor Portraits with the Ice Light 2

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Lighting Tips
Westcott Top Pro photographer, Jerry Ghionis, set out to design the revolutionary Ice Light 2 for rendering beautiful consistent light quality for photographers and filmmakers whether you’re shooting indoors or...

Freezing Motion with Precision: FJ400 Freeze Mode Explained

Ashley Boring
Lighting Tips
When working in the studio in most situations, 1/280th of a second flash duration is more than enough to freeze your subject. But sometimes you need to photograph something that is moving much faster; a spinnin...
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