Justin Cary Photography

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!!!

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