Yesterday I featured an amazing video by Simon Carter. Today, I point you to a second video featuring Carter, in which he talks (with an amazing, grounded calm) about exactly what goes into making great rock climbing images.
Both videos are featured in a Carter’s blog post yesterday, in which he gives the back story of the assignment.
Carter’s blog will be an RSS feed must for any photographers interested in rock climbing and what goes into making adventure images.
In this video, I love it when Carter talks about creating a “nice, stable platform to work from” — as he twists and turns in a harness tethered to multiple points on different cliffs. : ))
"A nice, stable platform."
I also love how Carter casually changes lenses from the same “stable platform.” Gulp.
And I love the fact that such stunning stills and video footage have been captured with the same DSLR camera. (In this case, it’s a Nikon D3S.)
More than anything, I love how, at the heart of it, Carter’s success at rock climbing photography comprises exactly the same ingredients of all photographic success: plenty of preparation, caring about and being passionate about the subject (as much as the photography), and a clear wiliness to experiment, explore, fail and then, succeed big time.