Capturing Unique Outdoor Engagement Portraits with Flash

Creating Modern Portraits with a Deep Umbrella

Controlling Harsh Sunlight for Glamorous Beach Portraits

How to Freeze Motion for Eye-Catching Food Photography

Mastering the Art of Green Screen

Underexposing the Sky for Dramatic Portraits

Lightweight and Portable Lighting Setup

Wedding Photography on a Budget

How to Create Environmental Food Photography

Behind the Scenes: Outdoor Fashion Photography with Flash

Light Painting for Product Photography

Ad Campaign Photography (Part 1)

Pet Photography 101

2 Ways to Reduce Lens Flare

Realistic Composite Editing in Photoshop

#FilmmakerFriday with Bittersweet Creative

How to Create Soft but Powerful Lighting

#FilmmakerFriday with Story & Heart

Reflecting Natural Light for Senior Portraits with the Omega Reflector

Creative Lighting for Food Photography

#FilmmakerFriday with Running Wild Media

Pre-Production Tips for Small Filmmaking Crews

3 Tips for Shooting Awesome B-Roll

Capturing Timeless Portraits of Veterans

Understanding the 4 Elements of Lighting

Dramatic Lighting for Photographing Athletes

Behind the Scenes: Lifestyle Photography Shoot

Professional Lighting for Awesome Headshots

Strobelite Plus Walkthrough with Erik Valind

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

Pre-Production Tips for Small Filmmaking Crews

3 Tips for Shooting Awesome B-Roll

Capturing Timeless Portraits of Veterans

Understanding the 4 Elements of Lighting

Dramatic Lighting for Photographing Athletes

Capturing Unique Outdoor Engagement Portraits with Flash

Creating Modern Portraits with a Deep Umbrella

Controlling Harsh Sunlight for Glamorous Beach Portraits

How to Freeze Motion for Eye-Catching Food Photography

Mastering the Art of Green Screen

Underexposing the Sky for Dramatic Portraits

Lightweight and Portable Lighting Setup

Wedding Photography on a Budget

How to Create Environmental Food Photography

Behind the Scenes: Outdoor Fashion Photography with Flash

Light Painting for Product Photography

Ad Campaign Photography (Part 1)

Pet Photography 101

2 Ways to Reduce Lens Flare

Realistic Composite Editing in Photoshop

#FilmmakerFriday with Bittersweet Creative

How to Create Soft but Powerful Lighting

#FilmmakerFriday with Story & Heart

Reflecting Natural Light for Senior Portraits with the Omega Reflector

Creative Lighting for Food Photography

#FilmmakerFriday with Running Wild Media

To capture eye-catching engagement portraits , photographer Zach Gray heads to a sunny open field with a stunning backdrop. With the Flatiron mountains in the distance, Zach wants to focus on his beautiful subj...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

This article is courtesy of Atlanta-based portrait photographer and designer Alex D. Rogers. Whenever the situation allows, I love to use a simple one-light setup for portraits and fashion shoots. It’s a quick...

Lou Freeman

Lighting Tips

Beaches are a common location choice for photo shoots. They're beautiful, accessible, and offer plenty of sunlight. Sometimes, a little too much sunlight. In locations like this, many photographers default to ...

Steve Hansen

Lighting Tips

Want to capture food photographs that will stand out from all the rest? Instead of capturing the typical overhead still shot, you can deconstruct your dish or add some movement to your image for results that ar...

Jem Schofield

Lighting Tips

Implementing the art of green screen (or blue screen) into your video productions can be extremely useful. Background composites aren't just for sci-fi scenes or exotic locations - they are useful in common int...

Underexposing the Sky - Hernandez Portrait

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

Kentucky sports and senior portrait photographer Matt Hernandez is known for capturing dramatic senior portraits with relatively simple lighting setups. To emphasize the drama in these shots, Matt typically sho...

Zach Gray

Lighting Tips

The most eye-catching photo shoot locations are often the hardest to get to. Take Zach Gray's dream location on a Colorado river for example. Zach wants to photograph his clients from eye-level and practically ...

Scott Kelby

Lighting Tips

For wedding photographers, nothing is more important than using gear that is both portable and easy to use. Wedding photographers are constantly on the move and always need to be ready to capture those special ...

Steve Hansen

Lighting Tips

Seattle-based photographer Steve Hansen has a knack for creating food images that pop. Standard food photography is often times flat and lifeless, with minimal props and color. Steve avoids boring imagey by add...

Zach Gray - Final Image 3 - Modifying Flash

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

During a recent trip to Denver, photographer Zach Gray sets out to capture eye-catching fashion photography in the mountains. Zach (alongside his wife Jody) manages an successful photography business back in Na...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Whether you are photographing products for a client or taking photos to sell your crafts or goods online, lighting is an essential tool for capturing quality images. In this video tutorial, Photoshop guru Dave ...

Ad Campaign Photo Shoot with Lou Freeman

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

In part 1 of this ad campaign tutorial, talented photographer Lou Freeman discusses the dos and don’ts of a commercial photo shoot. Behind the scenes at Coyote Ugly saloon in Florida, Lou begins her shoot by r...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

In this video, Team Westcott joins the Toledo Area Humane Society to teach photographers and shelters how to capture professional-quality pet photography. It has been proven that shelters with better photograp...

How to Eliminate Lens Flare with Joel Grimes

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

In this video, commercial photographer Joel Grimes demonstrates 2 simple solutions for reducing lens flare during in-studio and on-location portraiture. Lens flare is an issue most photographers encounter. Len...

Dave Cross

Lighting Tips

In part 1 of this 2 part series, Adobe Creative expert and photographer Dave Cross demonstrates how to use studio lighting for a composite image. In part 2, Dave discusses the essential Photoshop editing techni...

#filmmakerfriday Bittersweet Creative BTS 5

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Welcome to #FilmmakerFriday, where you can meet filmmakers that inspire Team Westcott. "I wonder how many people have felt like I do: increasingly numb to statistics and paralyzed by awareness campaigns rath...

Zach Gray

Lighting Tips

If you are shooting outdoors though, maintaining powerful lighting is key for overpowering the sun. For this particular shoot, renowned photographer Zach Gray wants to photograph his subject outside on a...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Introducing #FilmmakerFriday, where you can meet filmmakers that inspire Team Westcott. Story & Heart is a global community of filmmakers on a mission to help everyone tell amazing stories with video. ...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

Capturing professional senior portraits doesn't require expensive lighting equipment, especially when your client wants to shoot on location. In this video, Kentucky-based photographer Matt Hernandez demonstrat...

Steve Hansen

Lighting Tips

Seattle-based food photographer Steve Hansen shows photographers how to use creative lighting for professional food photography in this video tutorial. Creating an interesting image can be difficult when shoot...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Introducing #FilmmakerFriday, where you can meet filmmakers that inspire Team Westcott. Running Wild Media is a Toledo-based production team comprising of Alex Goetz (director and cinematographer) and Justin G...

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