PhotographyFebruary 20255 min read
Notes on digital fashion photography
Light behaves differently when it is authored. A short primer on composing frames that read as photographs, not renders.
The eye recognises certain accidents — a flare that lands imperfectly, a shadow that folds where you did not plan. Without them, an image reads as a render.
Composing digital fashion frames is largely the practice of putting those accidents back in. A slightly wrong crop. A backlight that spills. A colour cast borrowed from a season, not a swatch.
The frame should feel captured, not calculated. That is the whole discipline.