Lighting Tips

#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

Lighting for Beginners: Off-Camera Flash

#FilmmakerFriday with the Delivery Men

How to Capture a Shallow Depth of Field in Sunlight

Photographing Kenya with Kole Purdy

The Basics of Off-Camera Flash for Portraits

On Location with the Rapid Box Beauty Dish

Food Photography Lighting in Tight Spaces

How to Modify Bright Backgrounds with a Scrim Net

How to Photograph Day for Night with Speedlights

How to Direct Light for Moody Action Shots

Understanding Beauty Lighting with Joel Grimes

How to Perfectly Light Couples with Speedlights

Using Backlighting for Interesting Portraits

5 Ways to Use the Book Light Kit

Ice Light 2 Master Series with Jerry Ghionis

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#filmmakerfriday Bittersweet Creative BTS 5

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...

Erin Manning

Lighting Tips

In this video, photography educator Erin Manning discusses camera settings and lighting for beginners looking to capture quality studio portraits.To capture these headshots, Erin used her camera in manual m...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Introducing #FilmmakerFriday, where you can meet filmmakers that inspire Team Westcott. The Delivery Men are an Austin-based production team comprising of Joe Simon (director and DP), Hussain Pirani (director,...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

Many photographers struggle with overpowering the sun when shooting on bright days. This becomes even more difficult when a shallow depth of field is desired. To maintain a proper exposure with a shallow depth...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

This article on photographing Kenya and it's people is courtesy of 18-year-old travel photographer Kole Purdy. My Journey to Professional Photography In June of 2014, my Dad quit his 20-year career. In Novem...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Oregon-based senior portrait photographer Alycia White created this tutorial to help budding photographers make the transition to off-camera flash. By modifying a single off-camera speedlite, you can open up th...

Benny Migliorino

Lighting Tips

This shoot in Sayville, N.Y., involved a last-minute location change.Lauren (the subject) is a chef and owner of a catering hall and market and she was participating in a farm-to-table style fundraiser in P...

Steve Hansen

Lighting Tips

Seattle-based commercial photographer Steve Hansen shows us the essentials food photography lighting for tight or confined spaces in this tutorial. For this clean shot, Steve needed to light the interior of a ...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

Have you ever had trouble shooting in full sun? It's often hard to know if you should be exposing for your subject's face or for the stunning and bright background behind them. Luckily, world-renowned commerci...

Kevin Kubota

Lighting Tips

Westcott Top Pro portrait photographer Kevin Kubota demonstrates how to shoot with an ND filter to gain the effect of high speed sync, allowing you to shoot day for night with speed lights. In this video, Kevi...

Team Westcott

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Yousef AlMasoud is a Saudi Arabian portrait photographer with a knack for capturing beautiful and dramatic portraits. In this behind-the-scenes video, we go in the studio with Yousef as he captures action photo...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

World-renowned photographer Joel Grimes knows a thing or two about beauty lighting. And that's why he designed the new Rapid Box Beauty Dish.Grimes' 24" Rapid Box Beauty Dish is a collapsible, travel-frie...

Perfectly Light Couples Outdoors - Final Outdoor Image 2

Bob Davis

Lighting Tips

In this video from SPTV, Bob Davis demonstrates how to perfectly light a couple during a real-life engagement session.Chicago portrait and wedding photographer Bob Davis is a 25 year veteran of photography,...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

In most cases, working photographers are not able to choose their preferred photoshoot location. Even when your wedding, senior, and engagement clients choose locations that offer a perfect background, there is...

Final Image captured with the Book Light Kit (1)

Jem Schofield

Lighting Tips

Featuring Westcott Page! a high-end customizable design, provides the ultimate light control for narrative and interview video productions. This is a must-have kit for filmmakers, directors of photography, run...

Jerry Ghionis

Lighting Tips

Join renowned photographer Jerry Ghionis on this 20-part behind-the-scene video series with the Ice Light 2. Nikon Ambassador Jerry Ghionis is widely regarded as one of the top wedding photographers in the wor...

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