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.
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!!!!
So, I’ve finally given up on the fact that I’ll ever shoot with my film camera again… :-( I’ve really been beating myself up over this. This camera and I have been through a lot together. If it weren’t for it’s stubborn full manual attitude I wouldn’t be the photographer I am today. I learned the tricks of the trade with this camera. No screen to check your lighting and focus. You HAVE to know what you’re doing with a camera to capture good images with this bad boy. That’s the beautiful part. It forces you to learn your craft. I’m selling the camera and lens for $200. If anyone is interested lemme know. justin@justincaryphotography.com or 316.304.4599.
Ahh, 3:30am - to 1:00am. My sister and I woke up early to drive out to Parsons, KS for a BEAUTIFUL wedding. Last December I had the pleasure of shooting Ashleigh’s (twin) sister Megan’s wedding in Lawrence so it was awesome to see a lot of the same friendly faces. Ashleigh’s mother even greeted me with a Diet Mountain Dew in the morning… totally impressed and blown away that she even remembered!!!
The wedding was gorgeous. Here are just a few of the photos we captured. I’ll be posting many more on my website this week. As always… ENJOY!!!
So, a friend of Jess and Andy’s, Amy Sorensen, shaved her head for the American Cancer Society. Now, all of you ladies need to sit back for a second and reflect. . . Sink in? I thought Amy was nuts when she called me and told me she wanted to do a before and after shoot of her chopping her doo. I first thought of my wife… her hair is the most precious thing in her “attached to her body” world!!! And Amy was going to just shave hers off. Brave Woman! She raised $8,300 and… there it went, to the floor, well, actually to Locks of Love but you get it. So here are some awesome photos we took. I had a blast! Thanks for being so courageous Amy! I’m sure I speak for millions when I say, YOUR CRAZY!!! But the ACS and the world, is better off because of people like you.
I had the pleasure of shooting engagement sessions for someone I’ve known for quite some time. Whitney is a friend of my sisters… I think I remember babysitting her at one point! It’s so weird, I get older and so does everyone else. Tyler is a wonderful man and he is heading to desert in September to serve our great country… Thanks bro, you’re a bigger man than I’ll ever be. I had a great time with both of you!!!
OK, Brandy and I had a blast shooting her senior photos!!! Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day to be outside. I can’t wait to see the prints! Look for Brandy in the May issue of Splurge! She’ll be representing me in my full page AD!!!
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