Hi this is Jay P Morgan and Kenneth Merrill. Today we’ve got a sponsored review for you here from HOLLYLAND Tech which makes a great wireless solution for casting your HD or SD signal to your monitor. A wireless signal is the way you should go. This is a very reasonable solution here; coming […]
Tamron 17-28mm Lens. Best Wide Angle Lens for Sony on the Market!
Today on The Slanted Lens, we’re going WIDE and reviewing the Tamron 17-28mm lens on the Sony mount! I want to see if it’s as good as the 28-75mm which I love and use just about every day. I’ve got here with me, Leah Kim @gogoleah to help us test our this lens. So what […]
Top 10 Ways for Photographers to Stay Inspired
Today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to answer a question I get asked all the time, and that is “how do I stay inspired?” I struggle with this question all the time myself! It’s something I really have to overcome when I’m trying to come up with an idea for a new shot, when […]
Incredible Tamron 35-150mm Lens! Hands-On Review
We hit the streets of New York City to do a full hands-on review of the new incredible Tamron 35-150mm Lens. So we are here in NYC and it’s awfully noisy, but we are going to talk about the Tamron 35-150mm lens. This is an f/2.8-4 Di VC OSD Lens and I think it’s an […]
FUJIFILM GFX 100 Hands-On Review
We traveled out to Camera West in Rancho Mirage to be one of the first people to get our hands on and review the Fuji Film GFX 100!
One Light Portrait: Creating Contrast
Today’s lesson is creating contrast and depth with values in one light portraits. It’s interesting because lights and darks are opposites. Whites come forward in the image, whereas blacks will recede in the back. Now we have Michael here and his hair is white so if I put him on a white background, his hair […]
8 Cinematic Gimbal Moves
Gimbals are slowly taking the place of many large, heavy dollies, sliders, and other cinematic tools. So we are going to show you 8 cinematic gimbal moves to use in your narrative or doc-style videos! The gimbal is a fast, simple, inexpensive tool for you to get a wide variety of different angles for your […]
Canon 70-200 vs. Zeiss 70-200 Lens Comparison
We are here today comparing David and Goliath! We have the Canon 70-200mm lens that is a staple on for many photo and video shoots and we have the new candidate here, the Zeiss 70-200mm. Thanks to our Lezl Gonzales @lezlkoe for helping us out with this comparison! Photo lenses are designed to be lightweight, easy […]
How to Push and Pull Film
We are here today to learn how to push and pull film. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that term, it’s really simple! Let’s take a Portra 800, and set the box speed at 1600 instead, we are underexposing the film by 1 stop. So when we are processing the film, we have […]
Correct Exposure with and without a Light Meter
Hi, this is Jay P! Today, we are going to be talking about 3 different ways you can set the right exposure for film. The biggest thing for beginning film photographers is to learn is how to meter your film properly. All of our film stock was processed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab. Thanks for […]