Team Portrait Posing 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...
Dramatic and Effective Lighting for Team Portraits
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...
Location Lighting Using The Rapid Box: Share The Light
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...
Maximize Your Senior Portrait Session
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 ...
Creating Awesome Senior Portraits with Only One Light Source
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...
Modern Pin-Up Photography
The shoot starts with the Yaphank Garage, a restored 1930's-era gas and service station that these days is a museum. It's about 15 minutes from my home in Long Island, New York, and I pass it countless times, e...
Modifying a Key Light on a Budget
Canadian portrait photographer Craig Beckta used a wraparound key light setup for this portrait. While it can often be expensive to create large key light source in-studio, Craig decided to use an affordable We...
Creating Soft Cross-Lighting with Joel Grimes
Successful commercial photographer Joel Grimes is known for creating dramatic lighting setups for eye-catching portraits. One of Joel's go-to setups is soft cross-lighting. Cross-lighting is created by bouncing...
Real Deal Review: Zeppelin Deep Parabolic, “Desert Warriors” by Michael Herb
Las Vegas concept photographer Michael Herb created this stunning Desert Warriors portrait series in the Nevada desert. While shooting, Michael reviewed the newest addition to the Westcott softbox lineup: the Z...
Senior Sports Portraits with Matt Hernandez
This really sets the bar for senior sports portraits. To bring his creative vision to life for this shoot, talented photographer Matt Hernandez needed to completely control his lighting.
Photographing this y...
Lighting and Post-Production for a Dramatic Headshot
Utilizing a 3-point light setup in studio allows portrait photographers to effectively control the highlights and shadows on his or her subject and background. For this dramatic headshot, New Jersey photographe...
Inspired Photography with George Deloache
Westcott Top Pro Elite George Deloache discusses his lighting set up behind this Prince-inspired photo shoot with the Strobelite Plus:
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to acquire a new studio space in a...
Dance Photography with the Strobelite Plus
This article is courtesy of Westcott Top Pro portrait photographer George DeLoache of Los Angeles, California.
Dance is a phenomenal art form incorporating, music, movement, color and compositional forms. I ...
Creating Sports Composite Portrait with Photo Key
Westcott Top Pro Matt Hernandez, who specializes in sports photography, uses Photo Key 6 to remove a green background for a sports composite. Watch how Matt sets up his lighting for this green screen image, an...
The Art of Portrait Photography: Part 2
Executive & Business Portraits
In this executive portrait the goal is the same but the approach is more subdued, formal and professional in nature. The look and feel for any portrait? is generally dete...
Product Shoot: Super Bowl Ring Shot with Strobelite Plus
Take a look behind the scenes at this product shoot of a Super Bowl ring shot by photographer Hernan Rodriguez using two Westcott Strobelite Plus units, two Westcott Scrim Jims with 1-1/4 Stop Diffusion Fabric ...