Photography

Overview

Our photographs are real runs in real weather: wet sandstone, fog in the pines, a flash of ember orange moving through it. Film grain, soft light, mud where mud happens. Nothing is staged and nobody poses.

Principles

Three checks before a picture goes out.

01
Real weather

Overcast, fog, drizzle, low sun. We shoot the days most brands wait out, because that is when the gear matters.

02
Movement

People running, climbing, catching breath. Motion blur is welcome; a posed stance is not.

03
One ember

Orange appears once in the frame, on a runner, and the landscape stays in moss, stone and bone around it.

Style

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

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Treatment

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

Aspect
Guidance
Light
Natural and overcast; no flash, no golden-hour glow
Color
Muted and earthy, with Ember left true
Grain
Visible film grain, never sharpened
Composition
Small runner, big landscape; or tight on fabric and hands
Crop
Portrait for product and cards, 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 runners mid-stride or mid-scramble.

Don’t

Line anyone up for a group shot.

Landscape
Do

Let rock and fog fill the frame.

Don’t

Add a sunset or a summit cliché.

Editing
Do

Keep it muted, keep the grain, keep Ember honest.

Don’t

Push saturation, add vignettes or HDR.

Type on photos
Do

Set type on rock, sky or fog.

Don’t

Set type across a runner or across the orange.

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