Justin Cary Photography

Cemetary.  5DMKII  - 200mm f/2.8 - ISO500 - f/2.8 - 1/800th sec - Photoshop Process

Went to the camera shop today to grab some medium format color for Holga and took Jace with me.  We stopped by the train station but they were closed.  I didn’t have my camera with me… I used Chase Jarvis’ theory, “the best camera is the one you have with you”.  This is a crazy cool train.  I’m hoping to take Jace over there when they’re actually open someday.

Train. iPhone 3Gs - Processed in Photoshop.

I went on a small hiatus from my 365 until running into some friends that actually check it everyday… Thanks Jacob!!!  Just enough encouragement to start back up.  Here’s another go.  I’m starting my numbering where I left off.  Enjoy y’all.

Tree.  Holga “Toy Camera” - 38mm - ISO100 - f/8 - 1/125th sec - Black & White Process - Neopan 100 - Epson V500 Scan

Jace.  Holga “Toy Camera” - 38mm - ISO100 - f/8 - 1/125th sec - C41 Process - Epson V500 Scan

Shot Glasses.  50mm f/1.4 - ISO400 - f/1.4 - 1/40th sec - RAW Process

So, this may not be fair but yesterday’s photo I took the night before and this photo I took about 28 days ago at a wedding.  I refuse to grab something in my house and shoot it just for the sake of shooting something…  No offense to the majority of photogs doing the 365 project.  I’m very busy finishing the post-production on this wedding and it hasn’t allowed me to move out from in front of my computer screen… and…  I’m a cheater.  Anyway, I promise to keep the images I’m posting very very current.

Sedgwick County Zoo.  ISO50 - f/3.2 - 30sec - RAW Process

A coworker of mine, Bill Knechtel, has inspired me to start my own 365 photo blog… If nothing else this should keep me updating my blog.  Tonight I shot a lot so tomorrow you may actually see me cheating early on in this experiment.  Bill has been shooting a lot of still life and has posted a couple entries with gauges… His most recent one features a frozen gauge.  SO WHAT!  I’m uncreative and can’t think for myself and had to rip him off, Shut up!!!  I was talking to my bro in his office and looked out his window and had to shoot this.  The irony of it?  This is a temp gauge on a professional smoker.  You need to keep your temp 250 degrees or hotter to get a great smoke on your meat.  IT’S FROZEN!  Anyway, the next 364 shots won’t have this much explanation.  As always enjoy.  Feel free to comment, even if you think it sucks :-)

I have been challenging myself to help others my whole life.  I hope that’s come across every now again.  I know a couple of people that are so crazy protective about what they know if drives me nuts!!!  Let go of that knowledge, help others, you can’t take it with you when you DIE!!!  So, with that being said.  I’m starting a photography school.  A real one, with books, well, hand outs and stuff.

I want to pass on my knowledge of photography with you!  This is where is begins.  It will no doubt be one of the best in town as I have an EXCELLENT team of people working with me but it will also be affordable.

I’ll keep you posted. Please contact me if you are interested.  I’m scheduling dates to be held in Wichita and have a fairly full class as it is.  I want to be able to have one on one time with each of you so I’ll be keeping the class under 10 students.

Justin Cary
justin@justincaryphotography.com
316.304.4599

Film school seems like 100 years ago… but every shoot I pull another trick out of the FS bag of tricks. This is a standard way of controlling on location lighting when your shooting tungsten indoors.

I was recently hired by a home remodeling company to take high end professional photos of their amazing work. It dawned on me that I will be taking photos of kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and so on. Rooms that seem big when you’re hanging out become very very small when your photographing them… FACT!

Here’s one trick I used to control my color temperature. I was shooting at a WB of 3200K. The light coming in from the windows was, I’m guessing, about a 5200K cool temp. I grabbed some 1/2 CTO and covered the visible and non visible windows that would be casting light into the room. What does this do? CTO is a filter/gel that corrects daylight to tungsten. When you are shooting indoors the color temperature of the lighting inside is much warmer than the sunlight outdoors. This is how you correct that to get nice consistent warm tones throughout your photos. Here are some examples.

Please email me if you have any questions. I’d love to help you out!!!

I was cruising the web and stopped by one of my favorite blogs, ISO50, and found this little gold nugget.  I’ve been frustrated about my design and this guy says it best.  I know what I want it to look like it’s just falling a little short… don’t give up, do a lot of work and I’ll get there.  DUH!!!!