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

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The outdoor portraits

The outdoor portraits

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

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The outdoor portraits

After having made this photograph, I was ready to move on, to move on to something different. And as I thought a little bit about Keith, I thought a lot about all of these different things that he had around his home and his studio. There is so much texture and depth. There are so many interesting details. I wanted to try to bring something into the picture. Rather than just having Keith stand there, I wanted some element or item, and I was talking to Keith about this. And he said, let me grab my mandolin, and this was one of the pictures that was made. And sometimes by bringing in a prop, it can give the subject something different to do, and it can give you some different ideas--in this case, blocking a lot of his face and just his eyes peering over the edge of the mandolin. This particular perspective to me is intriguing. It's a quiet photograph. Again, I just photographed in natural light underneath that overhang, a little bit brighter on the left side of the picture. It's a calm…

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