The Full Day
Collections from $3,800
Wedding coverage · eight hours · two photographers
A gallery of six hundred frames or more, sneak peek inside 48 hours, full gallery in six weeks.
Wedding and commercial photography · est. 2016
Watch the day come back.
Dry Down Studio photographs weddings and working brands in quiet black and white. Shot like reportage, finished like a print you will hang, keep, and hand on.
Dry Down
Two rooms, one darkroom
Two kinds of light.
The contact sheet
Selects, straight off the roll.
Every frame here is a real commission or a real wedding. The ring marks the frame the client chose. No composites, no library filler.
See the full body of work
From the wedding room
Isla + Ben. A hill town in the rain.
Nobody planned the umbrellas. The best frame of the year rarely asks permission.
The last quiet minute.
Ten minutes before the aisle, the room goes still. We are there for that too.
On set
A set that runs like a set should.
Call sheets honoured, shot lists cleared, art directors welcome at the monitor. These production frames are from live commissions, with a crew of two to six depending on scope.
Commissioned by
Norrgale Outerwear · Fieldstone Ceramics · Harbourlight Hotels · The Print Annual
Collections and rates
Priced like the work: plainly.
The Small Wedding
From $2,400
Elopements and registry days · up to four hours
One photographer, two hundred and fifty frames or more, the same printing standard, the same eye.
Commissions
Rate card on request
Editorial · brand · interiors
Day rate with usage licensing stated in writing before the shoot. No surprise licensing at invoice.
Every collection includes the print-grade master files. Albums and framed prints are quoted separately.
Dry Down
QUARTERLY
EDIT
36 EXP.ISO 400
Edition 41 · current seasonThe Quarterly Edit
This portfolio was re‑hung this quarter.
Four times a year the studio re-edits this site the way a gallery re‑hangs a wall. New work in, weaker frames out, availability updated. You are looking at the current season of the studio, not a museum of its first year.
Folio of record
Looked at more than any object we own.
We forgot Mara was there, which is the point. Then the gallery arrived and my mother cried at frame four. We have looked at these photographs more than any object we own.
Range without hand-holding. She walked a cold location at seven, had the cover frame by ten, and the set wrapped early.