DIY Home Studio Setup

June 28, 2018 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Home Sweet Home Having a studio in your home is a great thing to consider if you want to start taking more portrait photos without paying to rent studio space. You’ll have to do the math on that one to see where your break-even point would be. If you do decide that a photo studio […]

Build a Halloween Set for Under $100

October 31, 2017 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Happy Halloween! In honor of Halloween, we’re checking out how to build your own Halloween-inspired set for under $100, today on The Slanted Lens! Building the Set We love Halloween over at The Slanted Lens- probably because it gives me a reason to turn my bedroom into a creepy, clown-infested Haunted House! I’m going to […]

Build Your Own Set: Creating a Window in a Seamless

October 12, 2017 By Morgan Leave a Comment

We are looking at a simple way to create a window on your set using nothing but a seamless, some tape, and an x-acto knife, today on The Slanted Lens! Today’s lesson is focused on a simple idea that should help you figure out how you can adapt it into your own work in order […]

MIOPS Smart Trigger Product Review

October 22, 2015 By Judy Leave a Comment

Hi this is Jay P Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to review the new MIOPS Smart Trigger. We used this trigger for our high-speed photography lesson, “How To Shoot a Light Bulb”. http://bit.ly/1MGGc9X The MIOPS Smart has 11 different modes. Six of those are native; you use them from your camera. […]

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

October 1, 2015 By Judy Leave a Comment

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. […]

Make Your Own Reflector DIY Tutorial

September 3, 2015 By Morgan Leave a Comment

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 […]