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Flash Photography: Front Vs Rear Curtain Sync

How to Find Your Photography Style

Using Leading Lines to Create Better Compositions

How to Create Rembrandt Lighting For Male Portraits

Capturing Dynamic Fashion Photos with Off-Camera Flash

Emphasizing Details in Bridal Portraits

Tight vs. Wide Angle Lens Portraits

How to Create Cross Lighting Like Joel Grimes

Fashion Photography with Sal Cincotta and the Rapid Box Switch

5 Tips to Quickly Improve Your Portraits

Using Long Exposure for Creative In-Camera Effects

Creating Lifestyle Portraits with the Rapid Box Switch

Behind the Scenes with Emily Soto and the Rapid Box XL

Capturing Dramatic Portraits with a Beauty Dish

Essential Loop Lighting Technique for Speedlite Shooters

Underexposing the Sky for Dramatic Portraits

How to Capture a Shallow Depth of Field in Sunlight

Understanding Beauty Lighting with Joel Grimes

Location Lighting Using The Rapid Box: Share The Light

Maximize Your Senior Portrait Session

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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...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

In flash photography, mixing the light trails from constant lighting with the freezing power of a strobe can create a sense of motion and get really cool effects in-camera. One of the most important things to c...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Renowned photographer Glyn Dewis is a master at capturing beautiful portraits. His images have a unique style - one that feels all his own and, yet, has been inspired by some of his favorite photographers. In t...

Will Cadena

Lighting Tips

Leading lines are important compositional tools that help photographers draw viewers’ eyes to the main subject in their images. This framing technique is easy to master (especially outdoors) as long as you pay ...

Glyn Dewis

Lighting Tips

Rembrandt lighting is a classic lighting setup that most portrait photographers can master with a little practice. Rembrandt lighting creates a pretty dramatic, timeless look and it can be created with just a s...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

You don't need a variety of light modifiers or multiple off-camera flash units to capture interesting and dynamic images. In this video, Will Cadena utilizes a single FJ400 Strobe modified by a Rapid Box with a...

Will Cadena

Lighting Tips

Regardless of your client's budget, you can be assured that the wedding dress has been meticulously selected. The bride wants to look as beautiful as possible for this extremely special occasion. And as the wed...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Sal Cincotta is a noted industry writer, author, educator, and publisher of Shutter Magazine, which industry pros turn to for cutting-edge technical and business insights from leading photographers. Watch ...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

Renowned photographer and Canon Explorer of Light Joel Grimes is known for creating impeccably clean and stylized lifestyle portraits. His signature style of Rembrandt cross lighting involves feathering two lig...

Behind the Scenes - Sal Cincotta & Rapid Box Switch

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Renowned wedding photographer Sal Cincotta is a noted industry writer, author, educator, and publisher of Shutter Magazine, which industry pros turn to for cutting-edge technical and business insights from lead...

Craig Beckta

Lighting Tips

Halifax-based photography educator Craig Beckta offers an array of useful tips and tricks for capturing amazing images through his successful YouTube channel. Recently, Craig shared with us his top five tips to...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

There are tons of ways to spice up your images with unique and eye-catching effects created in-camera. This summer, Team Westcott explored playing with sparklers, gels, and long exposure in the Westcott Soundst...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

Renowned photographer and Canon Explorer of Light Joel Grimes is known for creating impeccably clean and stylized commercial portraits. In this video tutorial, Joel utilizes the new with the and a single spee...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Emily Soto is an internationally renowned fashion photographer based in New York City, New York. Emily's style focuses on romanticism and high-fashion, with dreamy lighting that she creates with a simple Rapid ...

Joel Grimes

Lighting Tips

Joel Grimes is renowned for creating clean and dramatic portraits. In this video, Joel demonstrates his two favorite dramatic portrait setups. These are both created with a strobe that is softened and directed ...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Loop lighting is an essential lighting technique for portrait photographers. It is easy to create with just a single light source and is flattering on most subjects. This lighting pattern will create a shadow t...

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...

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...

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...

Bob Davis

Lighting Tips

Lighting can separate you from the pack, using light to define your style and elevate the quality of your work is as important now as it was back in the day when you had to light to capture an image. Today the...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

As part of Summit Online's team of photography instructors, Westcott Top Pro Matt Hernandez takes a senior portrait session outdoors to offer tips on capturing professional images for your clients. A key to ...

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