Reaction Paper #3
Steve McCurry Video


     Steve McCurry is a photographer for the National Geographic magazine. In our seminar class we watched a video on his work. The video was about Steve shooting the last roll of Kodachrome that was made. Steve began shooting his photographs with Kodachrome film. He left for a trip to India with a few rolls of Kodachrome and his camera to shoot photos for a small newspaper job. The images he came back with landed in the National Geographic magazine. National geographic asked Steve to shoot photos for them after that trip to India. Now Steve is known as one of the greatest photographers in the world. 
      Kodak annouced in 2009 that they will stop producing Kodachrome film. Steve saw this as a great opportunity and asked if he can shoot the last roll Kodachrome. Given his reputation it's no superise that Kodak let him shoot the final roll of film. The national Geographic crew gathered up to film Steve process of shooting the roll of film. In the begining of the video Steve wanted to Shoot photos around the city. He was finding anything in the city that would worth the shots on the last roll. He then came up with the idea to shoot portraits. Will Steves connections he has he was able to get Robert De Niro to sit for a portrait. After that session Robert travels around taking portraits of important people and the way people are living. 
     I thought the video was really interesting and was glad I got to watch it in class. Steve really shows his love for Kodachrome in the video. He also shows how important every shot was for him. Film is a great way to learn how to shoot photographs. Using a film camera teaches you to make every shot count.