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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 Simplify Photo Compositing with the FJ400’s Mask Function

How to Create Rembrandt Lighting For Male Portraits

3 Point Lighting Setup for Bold Commercial Photography

Capturing Dynamic Fashion Photos with Off-Camera Flash

Behind the Scenes with Photographer Kobi Gulianni

How to Create Cross Lighting Like Joel Grimes

Creating Environmental Portraits on the Street

Fashion Photography with Sal Cincotta and the Rapid Box Switch

Creating Dynamic Lighting for On-Location Bridal Portraits

Using Long Exposure for Creative In-Camera Effects

Creating Glamorous High-Key Portraits with Jerry Ghionis

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

How to Control Reflection when Shooting Through a Window

How to Create Portrait Lighting to Help Tell a Story

Flash Photography: Front Vs Rear Curtain Sync

How to Create an Easy One Light Portrait

How to Find Your Photography Style

Using Leading Lines to Create Better Compositions

How to Simplify Photo Compositing with the FJ400’s Mask Function

Bob Davis on the ProGrip Speedlite Handle

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

How to Create Portrait Lighting to Help Tell a Story

Flash Photography: Front Vs Rear Curtain Sync

How to Find Your Photography Style

Using Leading Lines to Create Better Compositions

How to Simplify Photo Compositing with the FJ400’s Mask Function

How to Create Rembrandt Lighting For Male Portraits

3 Point Lighting Setup for Bold Commercial Photography

Capturing Dynamic Fashion Photos with Off-Camera Flash

Behind the Scenes with Photographer Kobi Gulianni

How to Create Cross Lighting Like Joel Grimes

Creating Environmental Portraits on the Street

Fashion Photography with Sal Cincotta and the Rapid Box Switch

Creating Dynamic Lighting for On-Location Bridal Portraits

Using Long Exposure for Creative In-Camera Effects

Creating Glamorous High-Key Portraits with Jerry Ghionis

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

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Celebrity commercial photographer Ian Spanier began taking photographs at six years old when his parents gave him his first point and shoot camera. After majoring in photography in college, Ian worked in publis...

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 ...

Matt Hernandez

Lighting Tips

The new FJ400 strobe's Mask Function is an excellent tool for creating in-camera cutout masks of foreground objects for easy photo compositing. Photographer Matt Hernandez combines his background in graphic de...

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...

3 Point Lighting Setup - Behind the Scenes

Ian Spanier

Lighting Tips

Celebrity commercial photographer Ian Spanier began taking photographs at six years old when his parents gave him his first point and shoot camera. After majoring in photography in college, Ian worked in publis...

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...

Team Westcott

Lighting Tips

Los Angeles-based fashion and beauty photographer Kobi Gulianni secured an amazing location for his recent fashion shoot: the Sheats-Goldstein house in Beverly Hills. This large, stunning home included many dif...

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...

Zach Gray

Lighting Tips

Shooting in the city or on the street can make creating professional lighting and finding locations for environmental portraits extremely difficult. In busy areas, it can be especially difficult to find somewha...

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...

Dynamic Lighting for Bridal Street Portraits (1)

Zach Gray

Lighting Tips

Sometimes the best portrait settings and backgrounds are found on location. But shooting on location, especially on the street, can make creating dynamic lighting extremely difficult. In busy areas, it can be e...

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...

Jerry Ghionis

Lighting Tips

Jerry Ghionis is widely regarded as one of the top wedding and portrait photographers in the world. Based in both Melbourne and Beverly Hills, Jerry has developed a successful career based on his unique ability...

Jerry Ghionis

Lighting Tips

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. ...

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