Another take

A frame can be clean and still not yours. Point at the frames you want again, say why in one sentence — "warmer light, and let her look off camera" — and take them. One gesture, one stated price. The same line sits on the shoot before it develops, so the house knows what you are after before a token moves.

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Before the develop

On packshots and on a lookbook, one line sits above the verb: Say it to the room. Say it the way you would across a set. When you stop, the house answers with what it will hold unchanged:

Held: the cast, the garments, quiet luxury, the bone ground, full length.

Every noun in that line is read from the choices you already made on this shoot — never from your sentence, and never a guess. If the receipt holds something you meant to change, change the choice; the sentence is for everything the choices cannot carry.

After the frames land

Point at the frames you want again — on the lookbook wall or in the Darkroom — and the count rewrites in place: 4 frames · 52 tokens. Say why in the same line if you have a reason, then press the verb twice: Another take · 52 tokens, then Confirm · 52 tokens. Nothing develops on the first press, and tapping the count clears back to the whole set.

Each retaken frame goes back in holding its own earlier pass while the new one resolves, and the strip beneath it reads Take 2 of 3. Every take starts from your source frame, so take three answers to the frame you shot, not to take two. The frames you kept never move.

What one sentence shapes

A sentence said on a shoot shapes that shoot and nothing else. Your on-screen choices always come first: a locked ground stays locked whatever you say beside it, and the receipt tells you what is held before you spend.

When the house offers to keep it

Call for the same thing on four shoots and an offer arrives in the line's own place, quoting you back to yourself:

You've called for this on four shoots.

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Keep it standing for lookbooks · Leave it

The scope is read from where you asked. Four lookbook shoots make a note that stands on lookbooks — never on everything you develop. A packshot can sit on concrete while a campaign shot sits in a garage; nothing is "always". On its own the house writes nothing: a sentence becomes standing only because you said keep it.

The call sheet

One screen lists everything the house does without being asked. Every standing note with its scope in your words, the shoots it was learned from — openable — and the date it began. Switch one off in one gesture: no dialog, the row greys in place and stays listed, so what you switched off is still there to read. Where a note stands on more than one kind of shot, one tap narrows it.

Under any frame, What shaped this opens the list of what applied: your call on the shoot, any standing notes by name, the collection brief, the house vision. If a frame surprises you, the answer is one expander away.

What it costs

A take is a develop at the normal price — per frame, at the quality of the shoot, totalled on the verb before you confirm. A shortfall never hides the verb; it shows your balance instead. Tokens meter developing and nothing else. See quality and cost.

Related

• Where retaken frames hang: the Darkroom.
• What the house marks before you look: the judge.
• Building the shoot the sentence rides on: the Lookbook and Packshots.