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Octabank vs. Deep Parabolic Softbox Lighting

Using Haze & a Beauty Dish to Capture Dramatic Sports Photography

Creating Beauty Lighting with Scrim

Fashion Photography with Octaboxes

Capturing Dramatic Portraits with a Beauty Dish

Team Portrait Posing Tips

Capturing Unique Outdoor Engagement Portraits with Flash

How to Freeze Motion for Eye-Catching Food Photography

Underexposing the Sky for Dramatic Portraits

Behind the Scenes: Outdoor Fashion Photography with Flash

Lighting for Beginners: Off-Camera Flash

How to Capture a Shallow Depth of Field in Sunlight

On Location with the Rapid Box Beauty Dish

Real Deal Review: The Rapid Box Beauty Dish

How to Direct Light for Moody Action Shots

Understanding Beauty Lighting with Joel Grimes

Team Portrait Posing Tips

Dramatic and Effective Lighting for Team Portraits

Location Lighting Using The Rapid Box: Share The Light

Maximize Your Senior Portrait Session

Creating Awesome Senior Portraits with Only One Light Source

Seven Tips for Shooting with a Speedlite in a Softbox

How to Perfect Natural Light for Stunning Wedding Portraits

Run-and-Gun Wedding Lighting

Octabank vs. Deep Parabolic Softbox Lighting

Lighting for Black and White Portraits

Using a Mirror for Unique Boudoir Photography

Behind the Scenes with Emily Soto and the Rapid Box XL

Eric Eggly and the Zeppelin Deep Parabolic

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

Octabank vs. Deep Parabolic Softbox Lighting

Using Haze & a Beauty Dish to Capture Dramatic Sports Photography

Creating Beauty Lighting with Scrim

Fashion Photography with Octaboxes

Capturing Dramatic Portraits with a Beauty Dish

Team Portrait Posing Tips

Capturing Unique Outdoor Engagement Portraits with Flash

How to Freeze Motion for Eye-Catching Food Photography

Underexposing the Sky for Dramatic Portraits

Behind the Scenes: Outdoor Fashion Photography with Flash

Lighting for Beginners: Off-Camera Flash

How to Capture a Shallow Depth of Field in Sunlight

On Location with the Rapid Box Beauty Dish

Real Deal Review: The Rapid Box Beauty Dish

How to Direct Light for Moody Action Shots

Understanding Beauty Lighting with Joel Grimes

Team Portrait Posing Tips

Dramatic and Effective Lighting for Team Portraits

Location Lighting Using The Rapid Box: Share The Light

Maximize Your Senior Portrait Session

Creating Awesome Senior Portraits with Only One Light Source

Cine Gear 2018

Photoshop World

Jerry Ghionis is widely regarded as one of the top portrait photographers in the world. His creativity and ability to capture the natural magic of individuals allows others to see the powerful visual story tell...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

Sports and senior photography Matt Hernandez has a knack for creating dramatic and eye-catching sports photography. For this senior sports shoot, Matt decided to use a few simple tricks to transform the boring ...

Jerry Ghionis

Lighting Tips

When working in the studio, celebrated wedding photographer Jerry Ghionis uses the scrim to create beautiful beauty lighting. Invented over 20 years ago, the Scrim Jim system has evolved to become a go-to light...

Jerry Ghionis

Lighting Tips

Octabanks (or octaboxes) are one of the most popular styles of light modifiers. These large octagonal softboxes are an awesome tool for creating soft, even lighting in the studio. While shooting in his home st...

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 ...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

Posing just a single subject can be difficult, let alone an entire sports team. Talented sports and senior photographer Matt Hernandez has perfected team and group shots with these quick portrait posing tips. ...

Zach Gray

Lighting Tips

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...

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...

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 - 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...

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...

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...

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...

Jamie Boler - Rapid Box Beauty Dish Portrait 4

Team Westcott

Reviews

This Real Deal Review of the Rapid Box Beauty Dish is courtesy of Jamie Boler of Red Elephant Studios in Scottsville, Kentucky. World-renowned photographer Joel Grimes designed the new Rapid Box Beauty Dish. ...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

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...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Westcott Top Pro Matt Hernandez began his career as an award-winning graphic artist, then combined his love of photography with his design background and love of sports to become one of the country's premier sp...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

Renowned sports photographer Matt Hernandez has had years of experience capturing professional and high school team portraits. Through years of shooting in a variety of locations, he has perfected the group lig...

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 ...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

Kentucky sports and senior portrait photographer Matt Hernandez is known for capturing dramatic, awesome senior portraits with relatively simple lighting setups. To capture these dramatic images of Cash, a h...

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