Why I shoot a Photo per day.
An image from my Your City Right Now series. I shoot an image of the Toronto Skyline almost daily and upload it moments later to my flickr feed. This feed pushes into my sidebar of my website (See right), and gets sent to Twitter all quite instantly. I shoot all these images with my iPhone [...]
Photographers and the new Hustle.
If you think you have what it takes to be a professional photographer, let me fill you in on a little secret. It’s an 80 / 20 split. 80% of your time is split between trying to show your book, promoting, doing pre production and post, appearing at social functions and trying to have some [...]
The Jedi – Jesse Milns.
Name: Jesse Milns
Titles : Hermann & Audrey Team Photo Assistant, Digital Assests Manager, Current Lighting Test Model, Maid. Owner @ Jesse Milns Photographer & FocusToronto.net, Jedi.
The Fine Art Nude – NSFW
I’ve been shooting fine art nudes since my first year of photography school 20 years ago. There is nothing more attractive to our eye than the human form. It has been captured for generations through every single art form possible and the current state of contemporary photography has pushed the image of the nude even [...]
Inspire – Liz as Marilyn
I’m often asked about my creative process, how I think up shoots, where my ideas come from, and how I execute. I recently had the pleasure of shooting Liz Trinnear of MuchMusic. Let me give you a bit of insight as to how i got Liz Trinnear in front of my camera. 1st. The chance [...]
Career Changing Sessions.
There are 3 sessions that I can easily call “career changers”. If I wasn’t blessed enough to get these 3 sessions, my body of work would tell a bit of a different story. I’m often asked, “How were you chosen to shoot celebrities?”, or “How much time do you get?” The most obvious question I [...]
The Social Experiment
I’m looking for subjects to photograph in their downtown spaces. This is the social experiment. Each week, I’ll be choosing one person to photograph in their downtown space. I’ll be posting the images I create on all the social media sites I frequent, and I will be using social media to find these subjects. In [...]
Insights, Inspiration and Ideas.
Where do ideas live before they are revealed to us?
Carty Shoots Skam for Contact
I’ve been collaborating with graffiti artists, painters and a flashlight for nearly 5 years. This year i decided to bring it to the Contact festival with my series, Lightworkers.
Angel Eyes
The only constant is change. In this ever changing industry, the moving picture is used to tell the story as often as the still image. For the photographer, it pays to have a delivery of your work as of both the still and the moving.
May 17, 2012
With nearly 20 years as a professional shooter, Carty's iconic images have been featured in magazines such as; NUVO, InTouch Weekly, Girlfriend, Intersection UK, Antenna, Vervegirl, and Jane. Click the image above for the full profile.
