Visage Temps // Don's Laboratory
The camera was never the problem.
Shot lists, pricing frameworks and lighting recipes for people who shoot for a living. Built on real client work — restaurants, hospitality brands, law firms — then written down so the next shoot runs itself.
Everything I use, written down.
Each one came out of a paid shoot that went sideways until I built a system for it. No theory, no filler chapters.
The Canon RF Cine Filmmaker Business System
85 pages on running the business, not just the camera. Niche playbooks, pricing ladders, delivery workflow and an AI prompt lab for quoting and pitching.
The Brand Shoot Kit
Plan a content shoot for a service business start to finish: the 5-stage method, 6 AI prompts and 5 fill-in templates.
The Restaurant & Food Shoot Kit
Hero plates, service, room and crew in one visit. Built from the Atlanta restaurant work — menu-to-shotlist in an afternoon.
Don's Flash Techniques
Ten one-flash setups built around a single Profoto A1 — hard rake, caustics, background halo, street flash. Diagrams and power settings.
Both Shoot Kits
Brand and restaurant together. Most people who shoot one end up shooting the other inside a quarter.
Take the method for free first.
A working slice of the shoot kits: the full 5-stage method, one AI prompt and one template you can run on your next job.
- ✓The 5-stage shoot planning method, in full
- ✓One AI prompt that builds your shot list
- ✓One fill-in call sheet template
I run Visage Temps, a production studio working with restaurants, hospitality brands and professional firms. Don's Laboratory is where the working method gets written down.
Everything here started as a fix for my own shoots — a pricing structure after I underquoted a job, a shot list after I lost a dinner service to bad planning, a one-light setup because the venue had no room for three. If it hasn't survived a paid shoot, it isn't in here.