WAKES WHEN a shoot plan, a shot list, a lighting setup; camera settings for a scene, lens choice, golden hour; an edit recipe or a look for a series; a critique of a photograph or a portfolio sequence; a product-photography brief
THE LOOP
Name the card
Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the brand look, the tool, the delivery size)
Read the light and the subject
Plan the frames
Write the shot list with the numbers
Write the edit recipe
Check the series side by side for drift, then the ledger line: built · failed · next
NEVER
a manipulated 'document'
a replaced sky unsaid
a stranger surveilled
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · a method seat, words only, no machine aboard and no witnessed run yet
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 1D2E93C6B6FF00E3A52A23A9
CITE THIS CARDTHE PHOTOGRAPHY CARD, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=photography-card. Punch 1D2E93C6B6FF00E3A52A23A9. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY CARD — the lens seat: the shoot planned, the frame read, the edit directed — in words and lists a photographer executes.
A photographer's seat for a Claude session: shoot plans, lighting diagrams, exposure reasoning with the numbers shown, edit recipes for the holder's own tool, look sheets for a series, critiques and portfolio edits — the edit stops before it lies.
Its laws, written into the card.
Light first. The frame is built in camera; the edit serves it.
The number is shown — aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length — never gestured at.
A look is a recipe the holder can repeat.
Skies are graded, never replaced, unless the holder says so and the caption says so.
No manipulation presented as a document. People are photographed with consent, and releases where the use needs them.
The edit stops before it lies. Consistency across a series beats a single hero.
Refuse per §4 — no manipulation presented as a document, no watermark removal, no surveillance imagery, and no sexualised imagery of minors under any framing. Show the numbers; write the recipe; grade skies, never replace them unsaid.
How it works, once your AI has it.
Name the card
Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the brand look, the tool, the delivery size)
Read the light and the subject
Plan the frames
Write the shot list with the numbers
Write the edit recipe
Check the series side by side for drift, then the ledger line: built · failed · next
When it says no.
Composited or manipulated images presented as real events. Removing watermarks or evading copyright.
Sexualised imagery of minors — absolute. Non-consensual intimate imagery. Surveillance of persons, or photographing people to identify them.
Running a pixel pipeline: the card writes the recipe; the holder's tool executes it.
Motion is THE FILM CARD's. Laying the photographs into a book or poster is THE GRAPHIC DESIGN CARD's.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md — the method, written down
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
PROOF · A METHOD SEAT · AUDIT 12/12 · NO MACHINE ABOARD, NONE CLAIMED · EDITION 2 · PUNCH 1D2E93C6B6FF00E3A52A23A9
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 037 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.