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The Essential Guide To The FJ Wireless Flash System

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
With the expansion of our flash photography gear, choosing the right strobe or speedlight may feel overwhelming. Our FJ Wireless Flash System with multi-brand compatible transmitters allows you to capture incre...
Flash Photography For Beginners

Flash Photography Lighting Video Course for Beginners

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
Join Westcott’s Brandon Heiss in this deep dive on flash photography using the FJ Wireless Flash System. In this free photography lighting video course, you’ll learn about on-camera lighting vs off-camera ligh...

Professional Lighting with Food Photographer Joanie Simon

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
Commercial and editorial food photographer, food blogger and educator Joanie Simon, iconically known on social media as, “The Bite Shot”, captures captivating images of cuisines covering the entire food pyramid...

Using Photography Gels On Location with the FJ80 Touchscreen Speedlight

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
When it comes to using color gels for photography lighting, there are two main reasons why you would want to create a setup with this simple strobe accessory. The first reason is technical, allowing you to bala...
Purple Skies with FJ400

Couple’s Portraits On Location Using One Light with Sal Cincotta and the FJ400 Strobe

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
Professional photographer, Sal Cincotta guides us through this couples portrait using a one-light flash set up located at the mesmerizing Salt Flats in Bonneville, Utah. Demonstrating his knowledge and years of...

Capturing Individual and Family Portraits Indoors and Outdoors with Michele Celentano

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
In this portrait masters video, photographer Michele Celentano explains her lighting techniques for individuals and family portrait photography. Michele begins with photographing a family of four with the Westc...
strobe vs natural light

Benefits Of Off-Camera Flash Vs Natural Light For Outdoor Portraits

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
As a portrait photographer, it’s important to be aware of the lighting conditions that you face in natural environments. Whether you are looking to use natural light or off-camera flash when shooting outdoor po...

Freezing Motion with Precision: FJ400 Freeze Mode Explained

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
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...
Using Flash - Behind the Scenes

Using Flash to Mimic Any Time of Day in Portraits

Team Westcott
Lighting Tips
As photographers, we all know that you don't always get to shoot at the exact time of day you would like to. However, thanks to off camera flash, you are not tied down by mother nature. Using flash can convinci...
Portrait Lighting with Ian Spanier (1)

How to Create Portrait Lighting to Help Tell a Story

Ian Spanier
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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...
Behind the Scenes: Flash Photography

Flash Photography: Front Vs Rear Curtain Sync

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...
Photography Style - Final

How to Find Your Photography Style

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...
Leading Lines - Will Cadena (2)

Using Leading Lines to Create Better Compositions

Will Cadena
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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 ...
Photo Compositing with the FJ400 - Matt Hernandez (3)

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

Matt Hernandez
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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 - Male Portraits (4)

How to Create Rembrandt Lighting For Male Portraits

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

3 Point Lighting Setup for Bold Commercial Photography

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...
BTS - Off-Camera Flash with WIll Cadena

Capturing Dynamic Fashion Photos with Off-Camera Flash

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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...
Cross Lighting Setup

How to Create Cross Lighting Like Joel Grimes

Joel Grimes
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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

Fashion Photography with Sal Cincotta and the Rapid Box Switch

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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...

Using Long Exposure for Creative In-Camera Effects

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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...
Behind the Scenes

Creating Glamorous High-Key Portraits with Jerry Ghionis

Jerry Ghionis
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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...
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