Justin Cary Photography

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 :-)

Recently I had the opportunity to work with a very talented, young band here in Wichita, Kansas.  First and Foremost came to me with the idea of shooting a music video.  They, like most bands starting out needed something that would make them look professional and push their marketing efforts to the next level.

We shot the music video on a very strict budget in a short amount of time.  If you have any questions about the video, please please ask away!  It’s late… I’m tired.  Enjoy!!!

First and Foremost Music Video - Directed by Justin Cary from Justin Cary on Vimeo.

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

A blog post with NO images… WHAT!!!!!  Are you crazy?

Yes.  I’ve been crazy for the last 27 years of my life.  I’m here to ask for your help.  Obviously I get traffic on my blog.  There are ways for website owners to see this.  I hardly get any response and that’s not what I want.  Not on my blog silly… In the world around you.  Some of you, most of you, that read this blog are very close to me.  I need your help to grow my business.  It’s plain to see that I shoot weddings, portraits, commercial, blah blah blah.  Without my friends and family spreading the word of my work I’m nothing!  You’ve all done a great job this far and I can’t thank you enough for your support… especially my pops!

The time has come.  I am officially going to be in the phone book… Scary, never know what you’re gonna get from the Yellow Pages.  I’m looking into 360wichita.com and will soon be up and running with them.  I’m not sure what other kinds of marketing efforts to pursue.  That’s where word of mouth comes in.

I’ve decided to take my talent mainstream.  So bring on the phone calls and the business.  I have 4 mouths to feed… and mine is last on the totem pole… even under the dog :-) - OK, so, 5 mouths to feed.

God has blessed me with a gift… Yes, my eye, but all of you as well.

Here’s to many drinks with all of you!!!  Hopefully all on me!  Cheers!

JC

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!!!

Yes, King Kung Fu… Thanks Jeff Knudsen for pointing this film out to me.  If you live in Wichita, KS you will appreciate the crap out of this!

I was having a major issue with balancing my camera rig.  The Red Rock Micro tripod mount location is all the way to the back of the base plate.  I had my buddies at work engineer, machine and weld a new base plate that mounts directly to the original piece while still allowing me to get the follow focus for adjustments.  Impressive what these guys can do…  Maye we should market and sell this piece… or just design a whole system and get after it!

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!!!!

Sometimes I feel like I do design because it’s what’s available.  If it were up to me I’d love to work with a design team and solely provide the photography.  When I pick up a camera I instantly find creativity in what I’m doing.  When I sit down, open Illustator and setup a blank file I just sit and stare.

I read and read and read design blogs.  The people out there that I consider designers are amazing!  Not only with the programs they use but the stuff they conjure up in their brains.  I don’t really have any point to this post.  Just a realization that I would love to work with a great team of designers… be part of a larger project that depends on me to do my job in order for others to do theirs.

Blah Blah Bliggity Blah.  There you have it… I’m a photographer posing as a designer… on a daily basis.

A perfect example of a great design team I follow.