Portrait · 2025
Amber Study
Amber Study is part of an ongoing studio series on warm, low-contrast portraiture — faces lit like late afternoon, whatever the hour outside.
- Client
- Private commission
- Year
- 2025
- Location
- Studio, San Francisco
- Category
- Portrait
The Story
The sitting lasted forty minutes with a single large modifier and a walnut-toned backdrop. No retouching beyond dust and tone: the brief was skin that looks like skin.
The Approach
One light, one reflector, one backdrop. Limiting the kit forced attention onto expression — the sitter relaxed once she realised the setup was not going to change every five minutes.
Deliverables
- Framed 24 × 30 in portrait
- Ten-image contact series
- Makeup and styling direction
- Private online gallery
Your Turn
Want something in this spirit?
Every commission starts with a conversation and ends with frames worth keeping.