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A photographic studio with a white cyclorama wall and softboxes on stands
5,600 K
daylight · the north window · 11:00

Light is booked by the hour.

A daylight studio. No flash unless you bring it.Twelve by nine metres, a four-and-a-half-metre cyclorama, a north window and a west one. The light changes every hour, which is why every hour costs something different.

Book the hour
01 · The day

Twelve hours. One of them is golden.

£60
08:00 · flat, cool, north
Eight in the morning. Flat and honest.The north window and nothing else. No shadows to speak of. The hour for products, for catalogues, for anything that has to look like itself.
02 · The cyc

No corners. No horizon.

The wall curves into the floor with a radius of a metre and a half. There's no line for the eye to find, so the subject floats. Scroll and the west light moves across it, the way it does between four and seven.

62°
sun · high, from the west window · 16:00
Soft washes of pink, blue and coral colour on paper

Twelve paper rolls. One is white.

Two-point-seven metres wide, on a wall rack, pulled down and cut when they're marked. Coral, sage, a grey that photographs as nothing, and white, which is the one most people use and the one we replace most.

The studio

The room, in numbers.

Ground floor, a van-sized door, a kettle, and light from two sides. Everything else is on the rack or in the cupboard, and it's all on the list.

Floor12 × 9 m. Painted concrete, level, cleaned between bookings.
Cyclorama4.5 m wide, 4 m tall, 1.5 m radius into the floor. Repainted every Monday.
WindowsNorth: 6 × 3 m, frosted, constant. West: 4 × 3 m, clear, with a blackout blind and a scrim.
KitTwo stands, four flags, a 2 × 2 m scrim, a beauty dish that needs your head. Flash is yours to bring; power is ours.
KettleYes. And a fridge, and a corner with a curtain for changing, and a mirror that's honest.
Any hour · 08:00–16:00
£60

Flat, north light, the whole room. Booked by the hour, minimum two.

The golden hour · 17:00–18:00
£140

The west window, low, warm, one hour a day. Booked weeks ahead. Worth it, once.

The day · 08:00–20:00
£560

All twelve hours, including the one that matters, at a price that assumes you'll use eight.

The golden hour moves. In June it's 20:00; in December it's 15:40. The price follows the light, not the clock.
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Book the hour.

Pick a day and an hour; the calendar shows what the light will be doing. If it's overcast we'll tell you the night before, and you can move for nothing.

Book the hour