Notes, recent work, and ideas from Natural Studio, a Brooklyn-based photography studio creating natural, contemporary portraits and headshots for professionals, creatives, and businesses throughout New York City.
We're vaccinated, taking appropriate precautions, and, most importantly, excited to be making photographs and working with people again.
After such a long and unusual period, it feels especially good to be back in the studio creating portraits, headshots, and new work.
We're looking forward to what's ahead.
Cheers,
NS
The shoot took place at a studio in Chelsea, where we created a simple series of photographs focused on the collection's color, texture, and form.
The designer's artistry, honed in India, brought a distinctive point of view to the collection and a sense of refined simplicity that we were naturally drawn to.
It was a pleasure collaborating with NIV and bringing the collection to life through photography.
Cheers,
NS
In fact, the right frames can add character, shape, and personality to a photograph—especially when they're something you wear every day.
So here's to keeping the glasses on and making them part of the portrait.
Cheers,
NS
In addition to photographing imagery from her collection, we created a series of portraits of Maud for upcoming magazine features and publicity.
Photographing her in her own studio gave us the opportunity to make images that felt connected to both the person and the work—simple, natural portraits within the environment where she creates.
There was also an immediate connection between Maud's design sensibility and our own approach to photography: clean, understated, and refined without feeling overly polished.
A perfect match.
Cheers,
NS
At Natural Studio, we love natural light.
Some of our favorite portraits and headshots have been created simply by working with the light that's already there. But natural light isn't always predictable—or even available. Especially in New York City, the weather, time of day, location, and surrounding buildings can completely change the light from one moment to the next.
That's why we've spent years learning how to create and control light ourselves.
Using professional studio lighting, we can recreate many of the qualities we love about natural light—the softness of a window, the warmth of sunlight, and the subtle way light falls across a face.
Whether we're photographing someone in our Brooklyn studio, an office, a home, or another location, we don't have to depend on finding the perfect natural light. We can shape the light to work for the person and the environment.
For us, it doesn't really matter whether the light is natural or created. What matters is how it looks and feels in the photograph.
Knowing how to shape and control light allows us to create great light, and great photographs, almost anywhere.
Cheers,
NS
