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Laws of Light: How to Light Glass

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What is the best way to light glass? Glass doesn’t look good when you shine light directly at it. It soaks up the light it doesn’t define it. It just gives you specular highlights little pinpoints that don’t photograph well. Glass looks the best when you look through it and shine something bright behind it. […]

Sony 6400 vs Fuji X-T30 | Hands-on Mirrorless Camera Comparison

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We are going to be comparing the Sony a6400 with the Fuji X-T30 in this video. They are both pretty new starting level mirrorless cameras with pretty good specs for how small the body is. So let’s put these two cameras to the test! Picture Quality Test These two shots look very similar next to […]

What to Expect from the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6k G2!

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We are talking about the Black Magic Ursa Mini Pro G2 today! Now we have shot on the Ursa Mini and the Ursa Mini Pro and the Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k as well. You can check out those videos here. The Ursa Mini Pro was a small step up for them, but this […]

Laws of Light: How to Light Metal

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We are going to show you how to light metal while shooting video and photos. So we are using the example of this teapot as our first object to light. It’s interesting you see around the teapot. Metal doesn’t like a light shined directly at it, it reflects a harsh heavy light. We have our […]

Canon RP: Cheapest Full Frame Mirrorless Camera EVER?

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We are going to be talking about the Canon EOS RP today, which is Canon’s newest release of their mirrorless line. Currently, they haven’t released anything, but the specs so we are going to chat about that today. Kenneth is pretty excited about the Canon EOS RP because he’s just a big Canon fan, but […]

6 Tips on How to Get GREAT Film Scans!

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We are out at Richard Photo Lab today talking about different scanners and 6 different ways you can get great scans at your local Photo Lab. We have Bill Pines here with us, who is the general manager at Richard Photo Lab. #1 Scanners So we are looking the Fujifilm Frontier SP3000 scanner here and […]

Nikon Z6 vs Sony a7III | 2019 Mirrorless Camera Comparison

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On paper, these two cameras look very similar in terms of specs, but we wanted to test out the results for both of these cameras. Picture Quality We are going to take a look at her face and skin tone. When we take a look at the color tones, I prefer the warmer tones on […]

Which LEDs are the brightest?…LED Comparison Test!

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Today on The Slanted Lens, we are going to be testing some great big LED lights! I’m curious about the intensity of different LEDs. I’ve had people ask me all the time what how powerful a light, how bright is it, so we are just going to look straight at a 1k and an HMI […]

Shooting Speedlight Street Photography

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I’m doing something today that I always tell photographers never to do, shooting with on-camera flash! I’m in NYC with Jamie and Marissa, a creative team and we are going to shoot some fun street photography! It’s just a fun challenge to see what kind of images you can get using your on-camera flash. Camera […]

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