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

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The portrait session

The portrait session

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

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The portrait session

Chris Orwig: So then can I take some portraits of you? Keith Carter: I want to keep my shirt on, but yeah, yeah. Chris: I think that shirt will work too. I like that. Keith: You know, it has no pattern. Chris: And then can I try with your camera. Keith: Oh sure, sure. Chris: You get some film in there. Keith: Yeah, I will get some more film. Hold on. Chris: So you don't like 3200 speed film? Keith: Well, it's too grainy for me. Chris: But you like all this-- Keith: I like speed. Chris: But you like so much of the things that are distressed and aged and but not grain. Keith: I don't--yeah. Chris: Tell me about that. Keith: Well, it's probably just the way I came up that you use the slowest speed film you could for whatever job you were doing in order to have a sharper image, if you enlarged it quite a bit, and less grain. Less grain, I was always taught was, for most purposes, desirable. So today, I still. Chris: Yeah. Keith: I don't want anything distracting from the image. Keith: I…

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