Photographer directing a model in red on a pink paper backdrop

Commercial · Studio

Kestrel

A studio day for Kestrel's spring range: campaign frames and product shots from one roll of pink paper and one crew.

The brief

Kestrel needed a spring campaign and forty product shots for the online shop, and had one day of studio budget for both. We planned the day so the two never got in each other's way.

One backdrop

The crew rolled out pink seamless paper before the model arrived and left it up all day. The campaign frames came first, while everyone was fresh: Nadia directing from beside the camera, the model in red against the pink, a single large source overhead. Shooting everything on one backdrop meant the campaign and the shop share a colour from the first frame.

The product list

After lunch we switched to grey paper for the product list, shot in the order the shop would upload it. Sam checked each frame at the tether against Kestrel's crop guides, so nothing had to be reshot.

First selects went over within 48 hours, and the full set of product frames was live on the shop for the spring launch.

Client

Kestrel

Discipline

Commercial

Location

Studio

Year

2023

1

Studio day

40

Products photographed

6

Campaign set-ups

48h

To first selects

Photographer directing a model in red on a pink paper backdrop
Two of the crew rolling out a length of seamless paper
Photographer and a seated model on a grey paper backdrop
Camera on a tripod in a darkened studio
The edit desk beside a softbox

Model in a chartreuse gown against a coral wall

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