celeste.marlow

How Celeste shoots

• Chooses the grand view of a location: terraces, steps, water, rooftops.
• Late golden sun, warm and clean, long shadows.
• Medium format, 45mm lens, from an elevated vantage about 8 m away; the model fills about a third of the frame height.
• Blocking: the model goes about her afternoon, unaware of the camera.
• Look: rich saturated colour film, crisp detail, deep blue sky, composed like a still from a 1960s travel film, no retouching.