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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 […]

Hernan Rodriguez – Meet the Photographer

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Shop our affiliate link at Samys.com to help support new content from The Slanted Lens. Hi this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens in the second of my new series “Meet the Photographer,” I’m profiling international award winning photographer Hernan Rodriguez. I got a chance to sit down with Hernan while I was […]

Make Your Own Reflector DIY Tutorial

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Reflectors are a great entry point into the world of lighting so today on The Slanted Lens, I am going to show you how to make one of your own. Let’s get started! Bead foam reflectors have been used on photography and movie sets for years because they are cheap to make, easy to use […]

The Ninja Assassin, New Atomos 4K Recorder

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Atomos has introduced a new 4K Recorder that will open the door wide for 4K. The Shogun is a great recording device but expensive. The new Ninja Assassin by Atomos has stripped away the things that you can do without, like SDI recording, and left you with a great 7 inch monitor that will record 4K to the A7s and the Panasonic GH4. I have heard it’s under 1500 dollars.

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