Photographer & videographer — Beirut
Hasan Mahdi
The instrument
One body, three primes
An illustration of how a camera lens works. Wide open for the vows, stopped down for the room — the aperture is the whole decision, and it gets made in about a second.
Scroll to open the iris · move the pointer to tilt
The instrument
Press it and see what comes out
01 — Food & Beverage
Food that still looks hot
Food photography and videography for menus, campaigns and social media. Carefully lit stills, pours and close-up details, created around your brand.
Some of the food work
02 — Weddings & Occasions
One day, told properly
Wedding and occasion photography and videography, from the preparations to the celebration. Natural photographs and films that preserve the atmosphere of the day.
Some of the wedding work
03 — Fashion & E-commerce
Clothes photographed like they matter
Fashion, beauty, jewellery and product photography and videography. From lookbooks and campaigns to clean e-commerce images and films.
Some of the fashion work
04 — Behind the Scenes
Photographer & videographer
The story, still moving
Food, fashion, products and celebrations — captured in photographs and film. A look behind the camera, from the first lighting setup to the moments that bring a shoot to life.
Framing
Move it until it sits right
Explore how framing changes a photograph. Move across the image to adjust the composition, then tap or click to save a preview below. Open a saved preview to see the original photograph.
Press to capture
Motor drive
Fourteen frames a second
Fast moments call for quick reactions. Explore a selection of wedding photographs as they unfold across the page.
The read
Read the light, preserve the detail
The histogram shows how tones are distributed from shadows to highlights. Exposure depends on the scene and the intended look; protecting important highlights helps preserve detail in photographs and footage.
Bias −2.0 EV
The frame
Nothing sits in the middle
The rule of thirds is a useful starting point: placing a subject near an intersection can balance it against its surroundings. Centred compositions can be just as effective — the scene decides.
Composition Rule of thirds
What I shoot
What each one includes
Hours, deliverables and what happens on the day — in stills and in video. Open any one of the four.
In their words
Half the job is light. The other half is knowing which thirty seconds of an eleven-hour day — or which two degrees on a plate — is the one that matters.
The method
On a set everything runs tethered, so the kitchen or the brand sees each frame before it goes cold. On a wedding I shoot quietly and move constantly, and nobody is asked to do it again for the camera. Every frame is culled by hand and graded on a calibrated screen.