Westcott Top Pro Photographer

Julie is well versed in a number of photography genres and enjoys tinkering with light to achieve creative results. Besides working on commissioned projects, Julie regularly travels the country with the Speedlight Fundamentals / Flashgear.net team to teach off-camera lighting to other photographers. She has taught over 50 seminars to date. As an instructor, Julie meets her students at their level of ability and does everything she can to help them realize their creative potential. She’s always prepared with a bag full of Westcott gear to help someone’s idea come into focus.

Mental health is important to Julie, and she has been a longtime advocate for awareness in the creative community. In her personal time, she can be found most days in the country, loving on her USMC Gold Star Family as a full-time homeschool mom to her four children and as queen bee to their flock of many chickens.

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Articles by Julie Gayler

Enhancing Window Light Portraits with Flash

Window light has a timeless beauty that portrait photographers love, but it’s also unpredictable. Westcott Top Pro Photographer Julie Gayler of Little Rock, Arkansas, shows how to take control of that unpredictability. Known for her warm, painterly style, Julie demonstrates how to shape, enhance, and even recreate natural window light using off-camera flash for consistent, beautiful portraits.