I spent years in biochemistry before I picked up a camera professionally. People tend to find this surprising. Photographers aren't supposed to have pipettes in their past. But the more I work in beauty photography, the more I think the two disciplines have in common — and the more I suspect my scientific training is quietly doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Precision isn't a personality trait. It's a practice. In a lab, a misaligned variable ruins an experiment. On set, a mi