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Lighting Products and Creating Motion for Video Using the Syrp Genie Mini

August 3, 2017 By Morgan

Today on The Slanted Lens we are looking at how to create amazing product photography using lighting and a Syrp Genie Mini. Product Photography When shooting still or video of a product, you definitely want the product to look its best! This lesson was inspired by a friend of mine who creates really beautiful wooden […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Lighting Tutorials, Product Review

How to Shoot Panoramic Portraits

March 16, 2017 By Morgan

Panoramic Portraits The Slanted Lens Jay P. Morgan

Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens I’m teaching you how to shoot panoramic portraits. We’ll do this with and without strobes. I’m using the Syrp Genie Mini on the Sony a7R II, with both the Tamron 35mm and 85mm lens. So let’s take a look and see what we can do. […]

Filed Under: Intermediate Lighting Tutorials, Landscape, Photography Tutorial, Portraits, Uncategorized

Time-lapse in Direct Sun using a Super ND Filter

December 15, 2016 By Morgan

The Slanted Lens Time-Lapse in Direct Sun Using an ND Filter Jay P Morgan

Life is tough here in California. We’re down at the beach with all the ocean waves and people, and we’re eating a pretzel. And we’re shooting a time-lapse. We’re down at the Santa Monica pier, shooting some time-lapse with the new Syrp super dark ND filter. We’re shooting the time-lapse into this direct sunlight but […]

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Wedding Couple Time-lapse

August 25, 2016 By Morgan

Wedding couple time-lapse the slanted lens jay p morgan photography

Wedding Couple Time-lapse For today’s wedding couple time-lapse we headed to downtown Los Angeles. We used two Genie Minis from Syrp and two Bajas from Dynalite. We combined those effects to get a really nice time-lapse we can use in a wedding photography or videography application. You could also do this same thing with a family, […]

Filed Under: Intermediate Lighting Tutorials, Time-lapse, Uncategorized, Wedding Photography

Time-lapse Interval- What You Need to Know

June 23, 2016 By Morgan

Check out my affiliate links at Amazon and B&H Photo Video to purchase your time-lapse equipment from Syrp. Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re out here on location, photographing clouds to test how interval controls speed when you’re doing time-lapse. We’re also going to compare interval to footage that’s been sped up. […]

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Food Photography with Camera Movement using Syrp Slider

March 24, 2016 By Morgan

Food Photography Camera Movement The Slanted Lens Jay P Morgan Syrp

10% off registration expires April 1st. Use “earlybird“.    Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to show you my favorite lighting setup for photographing or filming food using the Sryp Genie, Genie Mini, and Magic Carpet slider. Not only that, I’m going to show you a great parallax move that really […]

Filed Under: Beginning Lighting Tutorials, Photography & Video Lighting Articles, Photography Tutorial, Uncategorized

Time-lapse – Creating Motion with Shutter Speed

February 4, 2016 By Morgan

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Hi this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re going to talk about using shutter speed to create motion in time-lapse, with the help of the Genie and Genie Mini from Syrp. We headed down to Hollywood to shoot footage of people walking along the sidewalk. We kept our ISO, aperture and […]

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Syrp Genie & Genie Mini Hands-On Review

August 27, 2015 By Morgan

Syrp is just about to release the Genie Mini as an addition to it’s family of motion control devices but I got my hands on one early to test it out and share with all of you. I have had the opportunity to use the Mini by itself and with the full-size Genie for a dozen or more time lapse photography shoots in the past few weeks and I was really impressed with the outcome.

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