One of my most favorite details from the article is the use of Polaroid in professional portrait photography:
> I put a Polaroid back on the Hasselblad camera to start with some test shots.”
> In the old days of film, a kind of early “chimping” was still prevalent, especially on 120 film shoots. Many Hasselblad shooters, including Anderson, would knock off Polaroids to see or show the client 21/4x21/4 proofs.
Another fun fact: Ansel Adams shot President Carter’s portrait of office with a large format Polaroid.
For those who aren't aware, the phenomenon where photographers spend too much time looking at the screen on the back of the camera and saying "ooh ooh ooh" rather than concentrating on the shoot.
Personally I check the histogram and overexposure zebra stripes when the exposure changes radically, but other than that primarily keep shooting.
> I put a Polaroid back on the Hasselblad camera to start with some test shots.”
> In the old days of film, a kind of early “chimping” was still prevalent, especially on 120 film shoots. Many Hasselblad shooters, including Anderson, would knock off Polaroids to see or show the client 21/4x21/4 proofs.
Another fun fact: Ansel Adams shot President Carter’s portrait of office with a large format Polaroid.