The Slanted Lens - Lessons and Tips for Photographers & Filmmakers

Cinematic Gimbal Moves With Your Phone

October 17, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today on the Slanted Lens I’ve got here with me, Melody Moore. Melody makes incredible cookies and we’re going to document her cookie making process to show you how to use this Phone Gimbal from ZHIYUN to get smooth camera moves. This is the new Zhiyun-Tech Smooth-Q2 Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer. It’s a great little gimbal […]

Laws of Light: DRAMATIC Lighting for Character Movement!

October 9, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

With the help of our Platypod stands, we were able to light this ally way and demonstrate how to create dramatic pools of light for subjects to move through, making for a cinematic look that gives the scene much more depth and intention. Characters don’t stand still, they move through the scene, and you want […]

Best Way for Travel Photographers to Backup Photos on Location!

October 3, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to talk about work flow for travel and location photography! How are you going to keep everything backed up and managed when you’re on that long trip? I’m heading out of the country to Uganda. I don’t want to carry a lot of things and weight, so I’m […]

Laws of Light: How to Light a Product

September 26, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today on The Slanted Lens we dive into easy product lighting with 1 and 2 lights! It’s amazing the different effects you can get with just 2 lights! In this new episode of The Laws of Light we’re going to move from the ball and cylinder to subject matter. Objects that you photograph all relate […]

Top 10 Tools Photographers Need for Photographing Food

September 19, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

10 items that Anna has in her food styling kit! You’re not going to want to miss this! If you’re a wedding photographer, you shoot food. if you don’t think so, that’s why your food looks so bad. Head to TheSlantedLens.com/courses and buy that food styling kit. Hi, this is Jay P Morgan and today […]

Tamron 35mm Lens – Best Contextual Portrait Lens + GIVEAWAY

September 12, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today on The Slanted Lens we’ve got the very talented model Breanna White helping us test out the Tamron 35mm 1.4 lens! We are giving away this lens through the month of September, so CLICK HERE to enter! This is the new SP lens from Tamron. It’s a 40 year anniversary lens because they’ve […]

ARRI Amira VS Blackmagic Pocket Compact Camera 4K! REALLY?!

September 10, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today we really compare the David and Goliath of cameras with the Blackmagic Pocket 4K going up against the ARRI Amira to see if the Blackmagic Pocket cam could be a decent steady cam shot when on set using the Amira! Though these are drastically different cameras, when you’re on set with the Amira and […]

Event Photography! How to Make Money!

September 5, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

We’re on location at the Avalon where our friend Paul from Kobra Modifiers is going to teach us everything he knows about event photography; from his camera settings, to what to bring, how to use it, how to carry it, everything you need to know so when we are done, you can do event photography! […]

3 Amazing Cinematic Lighting Techniques

August 29, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to take a look at 3 cinematic lighting setups using LEDs from F&V! Let’s get started! Watch the video by clicking here! Fire Effect The fire effect is one of my favorite effects! I’ve done it in fireplaces, I’ve done it in stoves, I’ve done it in rooms, […]

Best Camera Slider for Cinematic Moves!

August 22, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

We’re going to take a look at the history of pot pie from the 1800s to the 50s to today by blending 3 different moves on our SliderPLUS Pro with our HeadPLUS from edelkrone! We’re going to put these 3 moves together seamlessly to create 1 shot that changes eras as we move through. Check […]

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