From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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Gear review

Gear review

Here I thought it would be fun to talk a little bit about the gear that I used when creating the portraits of Keith, everything from the extraordinary to the ordinary. I'll start over here on my far left. This camera is here almost more symbolically to represent Keith's camera. This particular camera though is mine. It's my Hasselblad, my film camera. I didn't use that one. I did use Keith's. And I have that there just as a point of reference, because working with Keith's camera was so fascinating. Obviously it was interesting to look through the lens, to see the blur and distortion, but also to work with film, to wind the camera up, and somehow that winding motion does something to me. It slows me down. And then of course shooting with black-and-white film. When you're shooting with black-and- white film you're thinking about color as tonality, brightness value, trying to compose with that in mind. And then I have these two cameras here. These are mine. They're both Canon 5D Mark…

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