Brown Study

Chocolate, tobacco, chestnut and mud, photographed on a backdrop the same colour as all of them.

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Brown is the hardest colour to shoot because the camera flattens it into one note. The fix is not lighting, it is texture: corduroy next to leather next to a fine knit.

We put four browns on a brown ground and let the surfaces do the separating.

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02 Corduroy and leather
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03 Knit, close