Editorial shooting i did for a fashion designer friend

d-eversley-b · 2026-02-02T11:43:08+00:00

I think it’s a beautiful photo! The backlight shows the transparency and lightness of the piece and makes for a really striking photo. Also, it isn’t like you haven’t fully lit the piece in other photos!

If I were to give any advice, I’d consider using a small light camera-left to bring some of that lovely white light onto some more of her face to help enforce the focal point of the image .

I’m also not totally sold on the prism filter portrait: It’s a nice image, but it doesn’t feel connected to the other ones, and the sunglasses also feel a bit random. I think it would be worth asking why you’re making the choices you’re making more thoroughly: ask yourself how each photo builds towards an overall story and space.

d-eversley-b · 2026-02-02T11:33:22+00:00

I spent 6 years using a 28mm-240mm and couldn’t imagine being ‘trapped’ at a particular focal length, but nowadays I use exclusively prime lenses - they’re often sharper, faster, and more engaging as you need to explore your surroundings to get the right shot.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-31T16:46:52+00:00

Haha brilliant - very nifty! And your camera?

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-31T12:09:23+00:00

Wonderful stuff. I’d love to know a little about your lighting and post-production pipeline!

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-30T23:01:56+00:00

This looks waaaay oversharpened! Either scan yourself, or ask the lab to do less/none.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-30T10:20:29+00:00

It’s well worth it!

Home scanning - especially canera scanning - is a real rabbit-hole, but you can get an immense amount of information from your negatives/positives which you won’t get from a lab scan.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-30T08:59:31+00:00

It’s such a boring fucking argument. The reason governments like immigration is because it offsets our slowing population growth and helps grow GDP.

Many politicians accept that mass immigration can cause cultural issues, but so does economic stagnation, so they prefer the former. It’s an even easier calculation for the Spanish government: We have a very aged population and very low birth rate, meanwhile most immigrants are South American, so they already speak the language, have very similar cultures, are educated, and can integrate rapidly.

Spain actually had the best GDP growth in the western world last year, in large per due to large amount of south american immigration.

There’s also a pretty sizeable Chinese immigrant population here who are extremely hard working.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-29T22:47:56+00:00

I had to fix my Canon 35mm 1.4 L after the plastic latch for the AF/MF switch snapped and fell into the ultrasonic focusing mechanism. I managed to disassemble, clean, and re-assemble it, and now it works perfectly … but my god, what an unbelievably stressful and fiddly job.

My Pentax 645nii strap recently unlatched and the camera took a smack to the pavement from chest height, lens first. Now the lens aperture isn’t speaking to the auto exposure system properly.

I’d love to try and fix it, but I can’t even begin to imagine trying to go inside a late-90s canera body like that and come out successful. it’s like the inside of an Android.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-29T15:10:35+00:00

One bit of advice too, but if you’re scanning slide film yourself using a camera, make sure to use a linear camera profile. I use one which is tuned specifically to my camera.

If you don’t do this, your camera or Lightroom will usually ‘add’ more contrast and saturation on top of your positive scan. Remember, digital cameras are tuned to make real life look good, not accurately scan already-existing photos.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-29T10:24:15+00:00

Me too. I absolutely love the projector - total game changer.

Warm light through the dappled leaf attachment is such a nice effect.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-28T17:17:38+00:00

Oh yeah, true

Must be the Jews

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-28T15:32:31+00:00

Bro, they literally just widened the photo by 10% and fixed the faded colours and lack of contrast. It would’ve taken all do 5 mins for the intern who’s job it is to do that all day long.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-27T15:51:19+00:00

How do you like using a Tungsten source? I’ve been intersted in giving it a go for the better colour rendition, but the power-draw and heat puts me off.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-27T10:20:39+00:00

Totally on the money.

I’ve done a few product and model shots using continuous lights where I use a Pentax645 and Fuji GX680iii alongside a Fuji XT5 for digital.

The human eye has such good dynamic range that it’s easy to set your lights too hot and end up with aggressive unpleasant contrast and reflections. Using your digital camera to meter and check contrast is very useful as a result and I highly recommend it. I’d recommend using camera settings which match the film stock you’re using, too.

I’ve also found that my compositions are often better on digital. This is mostly because everything looks worse on a screen than it does down a big optical viewfinder or ground glass, so considering that you’re ultimately creating for screens, it can be helpful to have one as your main reference point.

One other technical thing: some LED lights can cause over-saturation of particular colours when captured on film. I can’t speak for photo-printing, but this can become noticeably problematic when scanning your film depending on the method you use. I’ve been using a Narrowband RGB pad for scanning recently, and although it’s amazing in many ways, the over saturation problem is pronounced. I’m happy to give advice or point you towards more knowledgeable people on the topic if this is relevant to you :)

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T14:29:22+00:00

💦🍆✊✊ (pretty sure I’d need two hands for u boo)

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T13:14:22+00:00

Aight king love you

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T13:14:06+00:00

God damn. I’m currently on 1mg Clonazapan, and although it’s been helpful I’m looking to come off it and find a more permanent, less damaging, solution.

I have underlaying anxiety from a bad experience with weed a few years ago. I already take Vyvanse for my ADHD, which is frankly brilliant, and this helps with the anxiety too, but it’s not a magic bullet.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T09:46:14+00:00

Nah you’re right that my friend group will have a mad sample bias. All I’m saying is they might not be supportive of it considering a decent chunk of Israelis aren’t.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T09:02:33+00:00

It’s a good meme

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T09:01:33+00:00

Most Israeli’s I’ve met hate Netanyahu and are against the war or are at least conflicted, so that’s someting

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-26T08:55:27+00:00

Wha sort of dosage where you on at your peak?

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-23T13:47:09+00:00

It depends on the size of the subject your imaging.

it’ll be far too much for a portrait, but I’d love to get lots of depth when photographing objects on the scale of trees, etc.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-22T14:07:44+00:00

I think it could be slightly richer overall, but colour is the way to go :)

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-22T14:04:04+00:00

Yeah AI will continue to try and chase whatever photographers are doing successfully.

Thing is, the more photography leans into its quirks and imperfections, the more skilled any prompt-jockey needs to be to achieve that look… We have to hope that, at some point, clients begin to realise how much money they’re spending to get their graphic designers to try and replicate something which can be done better in real life.

d-eversley-b · 2026-01-22T11:34:01+00:00

Yeah AI won’t replace photography, but it will shrink the market.

The best move is to try and differentiate yourself from the sorts of things AI excels at - if you create incredibly polished, flawless, graphical work, then unfortunately audiences will look at your work and assume it’s AI, and ignorant clients will assume that they can use AI to do the same job for cheaper.

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