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Wildlife Photography Using a Laser Trigger

February 25, 2016 By Morgan 5 Comments

Sign up for my free business coaching call. We’ll have giveaways worth $1,000! https://theslantedlens.com/businessclass Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to photograph wildlife with our MIOPS laser trigger. Wild, ferocious animals. Okay, fine, the wild crazy creatures we’re about to photograph… are hummingbirds. I’ve been wanting to take pictures of […]

Stop Action Photography with the MIOPS Laser Trigger

January 21, 2016 By Morgan 1 Comment

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

January 7, 2016 By Morgan 4 Comments

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 […]

Using Sound to Fire Your Strobes

December 10, 2015 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Visit our store to buy your Keep on Clickin’ t-shirts! Hi I’m Jay P. Morgan and today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to teach you how to fire your strobes using sound. Today’s lesson comes to you through a lot of trial and error. That’s just the nature of the beast when you’re triggering […]

Photographing Lincoln – The Slanted Lens

November 19, 2015 By Morgan 3 Comments

Shop with our new affiliate program from Samy’s Camera to help keep these lessons from The Slanted Lens coming. Hi this is Jay P. Morgan. Today I’m going to take you through the process of photographing Lincoln at Gettysburg. Yesterday we came up here to Little Round Top. We settled Lincoln here on the corner. […]

High Speed Photography – How to Shoot a Light Bulb. Literally.

October 1, 2015 By Judy 4 Comments

Hi this is Jay P Morgan and today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to do some high speed photography using a new trigger called Miops Smart. We’re going to shoot a light bulb. Literally. We’re going to shoot a BB through a light bulb. Setup We’ve got a BB gun on two c stands. […]

Combining Time-lapse and Video at Sunset

September 17, 2015 By Judy 3 Comments

Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re looking at combining three things: two axis motion, time-lapse, and live action footage to give us a unique shot. We’re shooting on the 3rd Street bridge in Los Angeles, using our Genie, Genie Mini and Magic Carpet from Syrp. This is […]

Industrial Portraits

August 20, 2015 By Morgan 1 Comment

Today on the Slanted Lens we’re back out at the SKB Factory shooting an industrial portrait. It’s one of the assignments that can go really easy or really hard. So let’s get started and see what we can do. When I say industrial portrait, it’s not a lifestyle portrait. It’s not a documentary style portrait. […]

Simple Headshots

August 13, 2015 By Morgan 3 Comments

Today on the Slanted Lens, we’re going to show how to get simple headshots with just one hour, one light, and one reflector. So here we are. We’re heading off to a friend of mine, Tanya’s. She needs a headshot for her real estate business. She’s been asking me for a while to do this […]

10 Tips for Shooting in a Working Factory

April 2, 2015 By Morgan 5 Comments

Shooting in a working factory can seem like a daunting task, but here are 10 tips to make it easier.