Souk Electric

Souk Electric stages your courtyard as a night market. Every few people run a stall — a tea stand, a portrait booth, a tattoo table with transfers, a fortune desk, a stand that does nothing but argue with you. Strung bulbs overhead, hand-painted signs, and a printed currency that only works tonight.

It is the loudest realm in the catalogue and the most participatory. Nobody stands and watches, because there is nothing to watch — the day is made of what your group brought to it. It works best for a big cohort that already splits into cliques, because it gives every clique a pitch.

The palette is deep indigo and warm paper with electric white. It's built for after sunset, under strung bulbs, on phone cameras.

Night market light is warm, low, and directly overhead, which is unflattering unless you plan for it. The shot list puts faces just outside the bulb line, where the light falls in rather than down.

Each shot has a framing sketch, a phone setting to change first, and a note on shutter speed, because everything here is moving and half your shots will otherwise be blur.

Two grade presets that hold the indigo without turning the warm bulbs orange.