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Jim Schmelzer demonstrates lighting for a wedding: Part 2 by .

Wedding Photography Lighting Tips: Part 2

Westcott Top Pro Jim Schmelzer continues his wedding photography lighting tips from Part 1 at the church. Here, Jim will bring in his bride and groom to start shooting beautiful images. Jim was using the Westco...

Kelli Dailey Real Deal Review – The Rapid Box by .

Real Deal Review: The Rapid Box Speedlite System

Photographer Kelli D. from West Virginia had the chance to review the Rapid Box Speedlite System for us in this week’s Real Deal Review. The Rapid Box features a very quick setup, along with a gorgeous output o...

Jim Schmelzer demonstrates lighting for a wedding: Part 1 by .

Wedding Photography Lighting Tips: Part 1

Westcott Top Pro Jim Schmelzer teaches us a few things about setting up as well as wedding photography lighting tips during the posed photos at the front of a church. After the setup, Jim will bring in his brid...

Charles Eames Real Deal Review – 50″ Mega Apollo by .

Real Deal Review: 50″ Mega Apollo Modifier

Watch Charles E. from New York as he reviews the 50" Mega JS Apollo for this week's Real Deal Review. The 50" Mega Apollo is the largest in the Apollo Series and like the others is built on an umbrella shaft fo...

Speedlite Photos for Graduation Photos

Top Pro Erin Manning from Los Angeles, California uses a Westcott Pocket Box and the Home Studio Creation Kit to create fun Graduation Party photos using a single speedlite. These images proved to be a hit at t...

Real Deal Review: Perfect Pair Light Modifier Kit

Photographer Patrick F. from The Woodlands, TX reviews the Bob and Dawn Davis Perfect Pair Kit in this week’s Real Deal Review. The Perfect Pair Kit includes two lights. The first light is the Medium Apollo...

Using a 7′ Umbrella for Portraits

Some people use umbrellas all the time. Reflective, shoot through, they just love the spill and shape of the light that comes out of them. For me, I like the control I get out of softboxes, strip lights, and oc...

The Rapid Box Debuts at WPPI

We were lucky enough to have the group at Kelby Media in our booth at WPPI 2013 when we announced the new Rapid Box light modifiers. The Rapid Box allows photographers to mount their speedlite flash on the out...

Rick Sammon

Seven Tips for Shooting with a Speedlite in a Softbox

This article is courtesy of renowned photograpger and Westcott Top Pro Elite Rick Sammon of Rick Sammon Photography. Got a speedlite? Add a softbox and you are on your way to making some awesome portrait...

Bruce Dorn: Portraits with Speedlites (Part 5)

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)

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

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...

Bob Davis

Directing Speedlites for Portraiture

For this portrait shoot, Bob Davis had two speedlites in Group B manual mode 1/8th power with the flash heads manually zoomed to 200mm. One camera left and one camera right. The main speedlite was in Group A wi...

Using Apollo Orb to Control Light with Speedlites

F11, 1/500th, ISO 200 Levels Aimed At: Simple lighting setup with a little practice. One light source (Key light), setup. Controlling background exposure to render your creative results. Anything I should k...

An Outdoor Portrait using Speedlites and Medium Apollo

For this outdoor portrait shoot, I ganged 600EX RT's together all in the same group acting as one to allow more watt seconds of power and paired with a Westcott Medium Apollo. Notice how well ETTL responds to t...

Portrait Shoot using Speedlites and Apollo Strip

Bob Davis shares a quick tip from this portrait shoot for using a and speedlites. The Speedlight camera left was in Group A manual mode 1/8th power with a Rogue Red Gel and 25" grid and the main Speedlight ...

Portrait Shoot at the Graffiti Wall

Here is a quick tip from an outdoor portrait shoot using the Westcott Apollo Strip with the Grid and speedlites. The main speedlite, in Group A, is inside a Westcott Apollo Strip with a 40" Grid and the seco...

Speedlite Portraits

Join special guest Rick Sammon with host Joe Brady and see how easy it can be to get spectacular portraits with just one off-camera flash, a pair of PocketWizard Radio Triggers and your camera's TTL metering sy...

Speedlites for Action Photography

Tyler Stableford

Explorer of Light Tyler Stableford takes us to the legendary Snowmass Terrain Park in Snowmass, Colorado, where he utilizes the radio functionality of the Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite system to achieve a perfect ba...

Behind the Scenes: Strobist Portraits in a Warehouse

This article is courtesy of designer and strobist photographer Rick Nunn of Lincoln, England. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a lit portrait, so I text my friend Leah & arranged something for ...