Creative Photography

How to Shoot Street Portraits With a Massive IMAX Lens (And What It Taught Me About Thinking Outside the Bag)
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How to Shoot Street Portraits With a Massive IMAX Lens (And What It Taught Me About Thinking Outside the Bag)

There’s a certain kind of photographer who looks at a massive, decades-old cinema lens collecting dust in a storage case and thinks “yeah, that’ll work for portraits.” That’s JP Morgan of The Slanted Lens, and honestly, that mindset is exactly why I keep coming back to his channel. In this The Slanted Lens tutorial, JP hauls an IMAX lens built by iWerks down to a skate park in Santa Monica and shoots street portraits with it on his Canon EOS R.

10 Cheap Photography Tools That Actually Change How You Shoot
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10 Cheap Photography Tools That Actually Change How You Shoot

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: the gear that sits in your bag between the expensive stuff is often what actually makes the shot. The $8 reflector. The magnetic LED panel. The cheap phone mount you grabbed on a whim. That’s the category of tool I’ve been obsessed with since I started shooting, and it’s exactly why a recent video from First Man Photography caught my attention and kept it.

How a Tilt-Shift Lens Gives You Control Over What's Sharp (And What Isn't)
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How a Tilt-Shift Lens Gives You Control Over What's Sharp (And What Isn't)

Most of us chase sharpness. We pixel-peep, we chimp, we stop down to f/8 and call it safe. But there’s a whole category of creative focus control that doesn’t get enough attention outside of architecture and product photography circles, and that’s the tilt-shift lens. I spent years assuming it was a specialty tool for correcting buildings and nothing else. A recent tutorial from The Slanted Lens changed that for me, and I want to break it down in a way that actually sticks.

This Weird Tilt Lens Broke My Brain (And Then Made My Street Photos Look Incredible)
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This Weird Tilt Lens Broke My Brain (And Then Made My Street Photos Look Incredible)

I have a spreadsheet with every budget lens I’ve tested over the past four years. Primes, zooms, vintage glass, Chinese third-party copies of Japanese classics. I thought I had a pretty solid mental map of what a lens can do to an image. Then I watched Pierre T. Lambert take a tilt lens out onto the streets of Chicago and I realized there’s a whole category of optical weirdness I had mostly ignored.