equipment and rental rates — dk3 studios

dk3 studios is a fully equipped rental photo studio offering over 1100 square feet of studio and work space for your exclusive use at affordable prices. Images are everything. Now you can afford professional photographs of your product line.

New!  See a music video of a photoshoot at dk3 studios here.

dk3 studios offers features not found in other San Diego rental facilities

The studio features a 16′ wide by 16′ tall cyclorama wall on one end.   The cyc wall gives you amazing flexibility to help make wedding shoots more efficient or creative shoots more, well, creative.

dk3 studios is the only studio in San Diego offering a full complement of one dozen, yes 12, powerful strobe monolights to help you explore your creative potential or to show your clothing line or product in the best light possible.  Boasting an Arkay camera stand and now an Elinchrom product shooting table dk3 studios is set up perfectly for product and still life shoots in addition to glamour and fashion photography.

New toys! JUST ADDED especially for VIDEO: Three 1000 LED video light panels equivalent to $1000 watts each. PLUS, an amazing chromakey LED light ring and unidirectional backdrop.  This high tech (and expensive!) system makes creating a perfect green screen quick and easy.  Looking through the lens you see the reflection of the green screen.  You don’t see it looking at the screen itself.  It’s amazing.  You won’t believe how easy keying can be unless you see it:  watch a demo of LED light ring chroma at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDh2L3wzugk

Recently added: The Elinchrom Light Table is a state of the art table for product shooting and is equipped with a translucent Plexiglas surface which can be illuminated from beneath and behind.  This $2400 product table will help you achieve beautiful and professional product images that will help your products sell!

More Lighting equipment for your use than any other San Diego Rental Studio

8 Calumet Travelite 750 monolights These are powerful 750 w/s monolights. See www.calumetphoto.com for details.
1 Calumet Travelite 325 monolight
1 ABR800 ringlight (extra fee applies)
2 Paul C. Buff Einstein monolights

Pocket Wizard transmitter and receiver (strobe triggers) included

Modifiers including:

Softboxes
2 16″ x 72″ strip softboxes
3 medium soft boxes
1 48″ soft box
42″ octobox
7″ umbrella reflectors
Convertible umbrellas
Booms, c-stands, flags
4′ x 8′ foam reflector boards
4′ x 8′ black “flag” boards
2 11″ reflectors
3 8″ reflectors
20, 30 and 40 degree honeycomb grids
Bowens angled background reflector
86″ parabolic reflector with front diffuser
Calumet beauty dish with diffuser and honeycomb grid insert

Studio

Arkay camera stand with Majestic gearhead (rare in a rental studio)
Various colors and sizes of gels
Extra stands for your own lights, reflectors, etc.
A variety of background fabrics and muslins
Prop box with some interesting items to liven up a shoot
Ray Charles mannequin for test shots

Rail backdrop system including black background fabric for easy low key setup

Convenience

Convenient parking right in front of the studio

A very clean restroom

46″ Sharp Aquos monitor for tethering or photo review (accepts CF cards directly)

Remote sound featuring a professional club sound system We’re on a canyon rim — you can blast the music
Control iTunes or stream from your iPhone
Music control center with 25,000 song library
Free wi-fi

dk3 studios offers a fridge stocked with beverages for your convenience.  (Complimentary for shoots involving four or fewer persons.)

Dressing Room/Client Area

For your models we offer a large dressing room/meeting area with dressing room lighting, several mirrors including a large, full length mirror. The mobile clothes rack and Rubbermaid utility cart make it easy to bring in clothing and equipment from your car. Or we can open the 10′ x 10′ garage door to help get your stuff inside expeditiously. There’s plenty of space in the dressing area to meet with your clients or models.

Rates Including Equipment and Reservations

Our promotional advance reservation rental fee is astonishingly low. We bill in one hour increments only so please be prepared to vacate the studio promptly at the end of your session to avoid a painful overtime charge of $3 per minute.  We also ask that you leave the studio in the condition it was when you arrived, so please be sure to allow clean up time as well to avoid the minimum cleaning fee of $25.

At this low rate we do not include set up and break down time so please factor that into your time planning.  Billable time begins when anyone in your group enters the studio for any reason.

LATE CHECK OUT IS $3 PER MINUTE. If the studio is not booked following your shoot you may add additional time at a rate of $40 per hour.

When you rent the studio it’s your studio and you are shooting in a private environment.  If you need answers to technical questions there will always be a helpful assistant at the front desk.  If you need help with lighting during a shoot we can provide a studio assistant at a rate of $25 per hour.

Our low rate applies to photoshoots booked through our online reservation service and includes the use of one shooting bay by one photographer for shoots involving up to six individuals. You have the studio all to yourself, but if another photographer in your group shoots simultaneously the rental fee doubles. If you prefer to book by telephone or email there we charge an administrative fee of $20 (perhaps you can thank the airlines for that type of fee.)

If you ask for a discount your hourly rental rate is increased by $5 per hour. Seriously. We offer the best value in California and our best clients recognize the incredible value they receive. If you’re cheap we’re probably not the studio for you.

Please note that the introductory rate applies to in/out privileges for up to six individuals.

For groups comprising severn to twelve individuals entering the studio please add an additional $10 per hour to the rental fee.

Note:  there are special exceptions for bands and other musical groups.  We  support the musical arts and welcome bands of all sizes.  Musicians may receive special pricing for music-related photoshoots.  Please contact us for additional information.