[ About ]
Cole Navarro
Stills and motion from the same eye and the same small crew. Editorial when a magazine needs a story, campaign when a brand needs a mood, a short film when a still is not enough. Based in Marfa, Texas, working wherever the brief goes.
[ Shooting since 2014 ]
Stills
And
Motion
[ Three numbers I work by ]
Every shoot starts from three settings
Not rules, a starting point: they decide how the pictures feel before anyone looks through the lens. If your project needs someone who travels light and works fast, that’s where I come in.
Close enough, sharp enough
Wide enough to let the place in, tight enough to keep the eye on the person. Most of my work lives here.
f/2.8
Portraits on location
Street and documentary
Products in real places
Fast enough to keep it
Wind, horses, kids, a truck on a dirt road: out here nothing waits for the photographer. 1/500 keeps the moment.
1/500
Handheld, walking
Wind and dust
Hands that move
One film speed
I load 400 and leave it. Enough for a grey morning, forgiving under a hard Texas noon, and the grain looks like film, not noise.
400
Sunrise to sunset
Natural light first
Grain kept in the grade
Wide
Open
Country
[ Commissions ]
Four ways to work together. Most projects mix two of them, and every one starts with a call about the light.