Photography

Overview

Our photographs are the studio on a good morning: daylight through linen curtains, cream and sage, matcha in a bowl, people mid-stretch rather than posed. Warm, soft and a little grainy, like film.

Principles

Three checks before a picture goes out.

01
Morning light

Daylight only, soft and from one side. No flash, no studio strobes, no hard shadows.

02
In the middle of it

People doing the thing: whisking, stretching, laughing between sets. Nobody looks at the camera.

03
Our palette, found

Cream walls, oak benches, green and blush clothes. If a color in the frame is not in our palette, crop it out.

Style

A set that sets the tone. New photographs should sit beside these without a seam.

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drink.webp
talk.webp
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Treatment

How a picture is shot and finished, so every shoot looks like one.

Aspect
Guidance
Light
Natural, soft, from a window
Color
Warm and true to life, a little lifted in the shadows
Grain
Fine film grain, never sharpened
Composition
One subject, room around it, often off-centre
Crop
Portrait for cards and posters, wide for headers at 2:1
Do and don’t

The calls that come up most when choosing or editing a photograph.

People
Do

Catch a stretch, a sip, a laugh.

Don’t

Pose anyone, or ask for a smile at the camera.

Matcha
Do

Show the whisk, the bowl, the color of the drink.

Don’t

Stage a flat-lay with props from elsewhere.

Editing
Do

Correct exposure, keep it warm, add fine grain.

Don’t

Push saturation, add filters or heavy contrast.

Type on photos
Do

Set type on cream wall or soft curtain.

Don’t

Set type across faces or across the drink.

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