Private Photo Studio with Strobes, Backdrops, Modifiers, and Interesting Furniture

Free onsite parking

There's a large private parking lot that's never more than 50% full, behind the building.

There's a single natural light source - a large window with a shallow, low windowsill. A full blackout curtain is available and is hung by default; we're happy to fully remove it from the curtain bracket if you don't want it for your shoot.

I've never heard a single spoken noise from the other office tenants on the floor. There may be an occasional door close noise from those accessing the adjacent second floor "fire escape" stairwell, or the occasional heavy-footed person tromping down the hall to the restrooms. There's full HVAC for the space; it will make pretty standard, relatively quiet air flux noise when active. I wouldn't recommend doing pristine voiceover work in the space, but for everything else, it shouldn't be notable or any sort of distraction. You can also turn off the HVAC completely if you wish.

Stairs, Elevator

The ground floor of the building has a double door wheelchair accessible entrance facing the parking lot, and a double door entrance facing the street. Inside, there's a spiral carpeted staircase and a passenger grade (not loading/industrial grade) elevator to the second floor, where our studio is. The street side also has a wide parking strip, in case you ever needed to pull up an oversized (like tractor trailer sized) vehicle.

There's a small combination kitchen sink and changing room, with spare clothes hooks, a floating shelf, spare changing plugs, and an optionally lighted mirror. Note that there's also a full makeup area (salon chair, lighted mirror, modest hair accessories) but it is a part of the main studio space.

There's a private office off of the studio, but it will be locked. Please do not photograph or take video in the shared building hallways or in the shared lobby (which, curiously, has this interesting water feature and indoor trees.. as much as I'm sure some photographers would like to use that as a background, I don't want to disturb the other office tenants, sorry!)

There is an ample electrical system with two circuit diversity, able to supply all existing strobes, steamers, and computers in the studio while still accommodating your own additional strobes, computing equipment, hair dryers, etc. In the highly unlikely event that you were to trip the breaker, resets may be possible to do during business hours Monday to Friday, 9-4pm, but would be subject to the availability of another building tenant who has the master key. Off-hours and weekend availability for breaker access would not be possible.

During office complex business hours, defined as 8:30AM-5PM Monday through Friday, out of respect for other office tenants, noise levels must be limited. Bluetooth speakers provided by the studio will be software-limited to a volume level of 6/10 or less during those hours. If you can hear music from the front door of any other office in our hallway, the music is too loud. Smoking, vaping, use of recreational drugs, alcohol, or tobacco is not permitted in the studio or office building. Those who wish to smoke or vape can do so outside of the building, so long as they are at least 20 feet away from any building door and the bottom of the fire escape. Aerosolized cinematic hazer spray may be used, but fog machines, smoke bombs, or actual fires are not permitted. Messy materials such as paint, honey, flour, etc. may not be used in the studio. Use of glitter (glitter bombs, rolling in glitter, etc.) will never be permitted, except for one specific case which does not require special permission: cosmetic glitter selectively applied to a model by a professional makeup artist. Photographic nudity is permitted, however the blackout shades must be engaged on all windows. No nudity is permitted outside of the studio - if a model is walking through the rest of the building, they must be fully clothed. All provided studio equipment (including any additional rental items) must remain in the studio at all times. There's a lens wipe dispenser mounted above the main trash cans in the studio; courtesy lens wipes are provided for free for all renting photographers to use in-studio. (Nothing stinks more than realizing your lenses are dirty just before an important shoot!! :) )

Furniture cannot be removed from the building. Paper backdrops can be raised and lowered on the existing reels. If you wish to swap spare paper backdrops (supplied in the studio or from your own inventory), you will need to seek assistance from the studio owner or have the owner check your understanding of the mountaing at the beginning of the rental period.