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How To Photograph Shiny Metal Lighting Tutorial

January 31, 2023 By Morgan

(If you want to watch the video go here!) Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens, we’re going to take a look at how to light shiny metal. But I just want to talk about a simple shiny metal object. Shiny metal is different than anything else you’ll photograph in that […]

Filed Under: Beginning Lighting Tutorials, Behind the Scenes, Intermediate Lighting Tutorials, Laws of Light, Lighting Tutorials, Photography & Video Lighting Articles, Photography Tutorial

Lighting Techniques for Product Photography With Shiny Metal

October 10, 2022 By Morgan

 Hi, this is Jay P Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we bring you an episode of the Laws of Light. We’re going to look at how to light shiny metal in a still life. This is difficult because we have shiny metal that needs its own attention. But we also have a still […]

Filed Under: Advanced Lighting Tutorials, Behind the Scenes, Intermediate Lighting Tutorials, Laws of Light, Lighting Tutorials, Photography & Video Lighting Articles, Photography Tutorial

Laws of Light: Balancing Strobe Light with Ambient Light

June 27, 2019 By Morgan

Today on The Slanted Lens I have Devyn Howard and Michael Nelson out with a Model A car to help me illustrate the balance of strobes with ambient light. I was just a shutter fest and I was thrilled to see the number of people using strobes again. I thought that time was gone and […]

Filed Under: Laws of Light, Uncategorized

Portrait with Truck at Sunset

November 3, 2016 By Morgan

Portrait Truck Sunset

Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens, we’re shooting a portrait of Randy with his ’66 Chevy. We’re going to concentrate on how to do a nice portrait of Randy and have a car doing sheet metal in the background. It’s all about incident angle and how you can get that […]

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High-Speed Sync- Combining Speedlight with Pack & Head

August 4, 2016 By Morgan

High-Speed Sync Speedlight Pack Head The Slanted Lens Jay P Morgan

Photo or video business not doing as well as you hoped? Download my class today and get back on track.   High-Speed Sync Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. You may have heard the term high-speed sync as it relates to photography. This technique is handy when you want to shoot with strobes, but still have […]

Filed Under: Intermediate Lighting Tutorials, Lighting Tutorials, Uncategorized

High Speed Sync and How It Works

July 16, 2015 By Morgan

Why High Speed Sync? To understand high speed sync, we need to understand how shutters work. Most camera shutters are two curtains that open and close. I know there are some cameras with a leaf shutter but that is for a different lesson. At speeds slower than 1/125th, or 1/60th depending on your camera, the […]

Filed Under: Lighting Tutorials

Creating Rain, A Special Effects Lighting Lesson

February 12, 2011 By Morgan

I am going to include a How To Video on Special effects form time to time. This is the first on making rain. Love Special effects and will look forward to producing these.

Filed Under: Advanced Lighting Tutorials, Posts

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