Salt & Tide — coastal editorial

The brief was a website hero. The catalogue deadline moved three weeks later, so every frame had to survive a crop to 3:4 without losing the horizon — decided on location, not in post.

How it was shot

Available light, two lenses, no reflectors. The palette comes from the grade rather than the wardrobe, which is why the set still reads as one story when the client mixes it with their own photography.