[![Lumen](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/logos/lumen-logo-white.png)](https://www.nopethemes.com/lumen-preview/?hsLang=en) [Get the guide](https://www.nopethemes.com/lumen-preview/guide#guide) ![A photographer at work with a model on a warm pink backdrop](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-14.jpg) Studio guide # How to sit *for a portrait* The guide the studio sends every sitter before they arrive. What to wear, where the light falls, how the hour runs, and what to do with your hands. [Get the guide](https://www.nopethemes.com/lumen-preview/guide#guide) [Look inside](https://www.nopethemes.com/lumen-preview/guide#inside) Written in the studio ## Everything we tell a sitter, written down. Nadia Ferrant leads the camera at Lumen and Marguerite Lind finishes every frame that leaves the studio. The guide is the conversation the two of them have with each sitter, set on paper so you can read it before the day. It reads in one sitting and holds up whether you sit for us, for someone else, or for a friend with a borrowed camera. ![A photographer at work with a seated sitter on a grey backdrop](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-1.jpg) - 6 Chapters - 20 Minutes to read - 60 Frames reproduced - 8 Papers compared ## What is inside - 01 ### Reading the light in your own rooms How to find the window that flatters, what time of day it turns, and why a bare wall is often the best backdrop in the house. - 02 ### What to wear, and what to leave Fabrics that hold their shape under light, colours that sit well next to skin, and the pieces that pull the eye away from a face. - 03 ### The hour, from arrival to last frame How a sitting is paced, when we stop to look at the screen, and why the frames near the end tend to be the ones you keep. - 04 ### Choosing, licensing and printing the set How to edit down without regret, which paper suits which frame, and how a file is prepared for print rather than for a screen. ![A woman sitting on a cream sofa in bright window light](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-7.jpg) ![A man in a pink fur coat, framed to the right of the picture](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-9.jpg) ![Two of the crew rolling out a fresh length of seamless paper](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-15.jpg) ![An empty studio desk with an iMac on it](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-16.jpg) ## Frames reproduced in the guide ![A model in a chartreuse gown against a coral wall](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-6.jpg) Vesper Colour on colour ![A woman in a green sweater against an ochre wall](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-5.jpg) Linden Ochre wall ![A bride and groom standing together in a meadow](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-4.jpg) Quiet Meadow ![Hands framing a shot on a mirrorless camera under a bright sky](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-3.jpg) Grain Open air ![A woman standing with a skateboard, framed to the left](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-10.jpg) Tide Street ![The Duomo rising over the rooftops of Florence](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-12.jpg) Duomo Florence Get the guide ## Send it to my inbox Leave an address and the guide arrives as a PDF within a few minutes. We write to sitters once a season about open dates, and one click leaves that list. **Email** hello@lumen.studio **Studio line** +1 (305) 555 0142 **Studio visits** Tuesday to Saturday, by appointment Follow along - - - - ## About the guide - Does it cost anything? No. It is the same guide we send every sitter before a session. - Do I have to book a sitting to read it? No. Plenty of people read it and then shoot with someone else, or with their own camera at home. - What format does it arrive in? A PDF made for reading on a screen, with a print-friendly version in the same email. - Can I use the pictures in it? The frames are reproduced for reference. They stay licensed to the studio and the sitters who appear in them. - Will you keep emailing me? We write once a season about open dates. One click leaves the list and the guide stays yours. - Can I share it with a friend? Please do. Forward the PDF, or send them here for a copy of their own. ![Still frame from the background video](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-lumen/images/templates/helper-img-2.jpg) ## Read it before you sit for one of your own. 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