An independent studio since 1975

Half a century behind a camera. Now I build the tools I wish I’d had.

Writing, photography, publishing and software from one studio, made for working photographers and for anyone who still cares how things are made.

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The Client Book Studio Bundle: emails, releases and contracts

The work

Four things the studio makes

For photographers · Open nowXtremeCameraPrivate client galleries. Your client picks favourites, leaves notes and asks for prints from a phone. No app, no client account.Level Three free for 90 days → For photographers · From $19The Client BookTwenty client emails, eleven releases and four contracts. Copy, fill the brackets, send. Fillable on any device.Look inside → For music lovers · FreeSterling Grey’s CompendiumThe records that shaped you, kept the way they deserve. Pink Floyd’s full studio catalog included, on iPad and Mac.See the app → From the archivePhotographyFifty years of concerts, portraits and still life, made new again and printed at modern resolution.See the work →

The Client Book · Edition One

Everything a working photographer sends, signs and files.

The email that asks for money owed since March without sounding weak or hostile. The release that refuses synthetic depictions by name. The contract that earns its retainer for holding the date.

One click from here to checkout. Your download arrives the moment you pay.

EmailsTwenty emails, from the first enquiry to the review request.$19BuyLook inside

ReleasesAdults, minors, property, the intimate session addendum. Seven languages.$19BuyLook inside

ContractsPortrait session, wedding and event, image usage license, print release.$19BuyLook inside

Best valueStudio BundleAll three books in one download. $45 against $57 bought separately.$45BuyLook inside

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Try email 14 first: the unpaid balance.

The gentle unpaid-balance email exactly as it appears in the book, with the note on why it works, plus the printable index for your wall. Free. Payhip asks for your email to send the file; joining the mailing list is your choice.

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Also from the studio

Thai GL WeeklyIndependent coverage of Thai girls’ love series, a free Monday newsletter and a living release tracker. @SterlingTheOutlierEssays on music and memory, from a fifty-year vantage point. On Substack.

About

I’ve been a working photographer and writer since 1975. Concerts, portraits and still life through the lens. Magazine covers on the drafting table. And ‘Life with Kosmo’, a column read around the world for four years.

Somewhere along the way the writing took the lead. The tools kept changing. The instinct for the right image and the right sentence didn’t. Today both go into software and digital products.

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