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Glass Photography

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Please support new content by shopping our affiliate links with Amazon and B&H Photo Video. My Lighting on Location photography workshop is coming up! Register today.  Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to show you how to light glass and then photograph ice splashing into a cup of water. We’ll […]

Kupo Click Stand Product Review

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Sign up for my Lighting on Location workshop today! Buy your Kupo stand through our affiliate links and support new content: Amazon; B&H. It’s time for another review from The Slanted Lens. We’re going to review the Click Stand, by Kupo. I think they were gonna call it the Snap Stand. But then they thought, “Hey, The Slanted Lens. […]

Portrait Lighting Using Three Lights

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My Lighting on Location Workshop is April 30th. Save 10% off registration with code “earlybird” at checkout by April 1st. Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to take a wonderful portrait of Mario here bathed in blue light with a double rim. And then we’re going to use […]

Food Photography with Camera Movement using Syrp Slider

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10% off registration expires April 1st. Use “earlybird“.    Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to show you my favorite lighting setup for photographing or filming food using the Sryp Genie, Genie Mini, and Magic Carpet slider. Not only that, I’m going to show you a great parallax move that really […]

Apple Box – Quick Tip

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  Sign up for my business coaching class! I’ll help you grow your business in 2016. https://theslantedlens.com/businessclass Hi this is Jay P. Morgan and today on The Slanted Lens, we’re going to talk about apple boxes. There are four different sizes: full, half, quarter and pancake. I know. Not an apple. Weird. People always ask, “Well, what is there […]

Time-lapse – Creating Motion with Shutter Speed

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Hi this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to talk about using shutter speed to create motion in time-lapse, with the help of the Genie and Genie Mini from Syrp. We headed down to Hollywood to shoot footage of people walking along the sidewalk. We kept our ISO, aperture and […]

Stop Action Photography with the MIOPS Laser Trigger

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Today on The Slanted Lens I’m teaching you stop action photography using the MIOPS Smart trigger in laser mode. You’ll also need a strobe that can fire with short flash duration, like the Dynalite Baja B6. We splashed water on our model, Rebecca Bujko​, over and over again. We were able to adjust the delay […]

Lighting a Kitchen Disaster on Set, with Jodie Sweetin

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Hi this is Jay P. Morgan, and today on The Slanted Lens we’re lighting a kitchen disaster on set, with Jodie Sweetin. Jodie’s getting ready for the premiere of her new show, Fuller House. Jodie enjoys photographs with opposition, so we went with the ‘glamorous girl upfront with a kitchen disaster behind her’. This was not one of […]

Clamps for Photo and Video: the Basics

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Download “How to Estimate a Shoot” today and start making more money. Hi this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to talk about clamps- the basic clamps and the ones that I love. Now this is not super glamorous stuff to talk about. But it’s the basics that we use […]

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