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Simple Corporate Portraits – What To Charge And How To Light

September 27, 2021 By Morgan Leave a Comment

 Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens, we’re going to take a look at how to set up a corporate portrait, a simple corporate portrait in a tight space. Really, it’s about working professionals like dentists, doctors, lawyers, that kind of group. It’s a great place to make money. A […]

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5 Window Light Portrait Positions

January 11, 2021 By Morgan Leave a Comment

5 Window Light Portrait Positions

 Hi this Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens I’ve got Rai here with me. Rai is from London. We’re going to show you how to set up the five lighting portrait positions using the window and how to control the light. The first thing we did in this room is we got […]

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Monochromatic Color Portraits – 3 Easy Setups

December 16, 2020 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Monochromatic Color Portraits

Jay P demonstrates 3 easy lighting setups for doing Monochromatic Color Portraits and he demonstrates how to get color matching with your wardrobe, backdrops, set pieces and props. We use the super helpful ColorReader EZ for easy color matching. Take a look and let us know what you think. Today on The Slanted Lens, I’ve […]

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Natural Light Portraits – How To Work With Direct Harsh Sunlight

October 21, 2020 By Morgan Leave a Comment

Natural Light Portraits - Dealing with Harsh Sun

  See the video on YouTube! We’re in Hollywood. I’m by myself. How am I going to get a nice image of Chanda because the sun is so awful here. Let’s take a look. I get asked this question all the time. Just tell me how you work? How do I conquer a lighting situation. […]

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One Light Portrait: Creating Contrast

January 10, 2019 By Morgan Leave a Comment

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 […]

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How to Push and Pull Film

December 20, 2018 By Morgan Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Correct Exposure with and without a Light Meter

October 25, 2018 By Morgan Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Continuous Lighting for Photography with 100 Lume Cubes

September 6, 2018 By Morgan Leave a Comment

We are going to use 100 Lume Cubes to teach you how continuous light can be used on a film set. Seeing is Believing Using continuous light on set for still photography is a great way to learn photographic concepts and getting you comfortable with lighting techniques. Since continuous light never turns off, it’s much easier […]

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