From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
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The studio portraits
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
The studio portraits
For me as a photographer, this is the fun part. This is where we get to take a look at some of the pictures that were made, as I was seeking to try to capture a telling portrait of Keith. And rather than just showing you a few of the selects, what I want to do is show you a wide range of photographs, in order to give you a little bit of insight into the process and to some of my thoughts and ideas as I was seeking to try to create a portrait which captured Keith. Now, this is one of the first pictures that I made, and I'm one of those people who likes to have a camera on my shoulder. I like to have it out of the bag, because so often the best portraits aren't the ones where you ask someone to look at the camera and it becomes serious; rather, sometimes they're those candid shots, and this was one of those candid moments. We had just met up. We were talking and laughing. I liked the closeness of Keith and his wife, Pat. I like that he's holding a coffee cup. It's just a captured…