Downtown images studio expands with Urban After Dark

Urban Studios has garnered fairly the next in three years because the downtown studio for pure gentle images. As it eyes its future, the studio is increasing its choices with Urban After Dark.

The enlargement will prolong enterprise hours and cater to a complete new viewers, co-owner Rafael Vite mentioned. Urban After Dark will deal with synthetic lighting and provides regional photographers the instruments they should develop abilities. Urban Studios is owned by Vite and Asantae Haanstad, who is predicated in California.

“We’re pretty well established in the area for natural light,” Vite mentioned. “By opening After Dark, we’re aiming to attract a whole new audience.”

Urban After Dark will open after the studio closes, operating from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday via Friday. Those who hire out the house for Urban After Dark could have entry to all the substitute lighting gear. The firm has invested about $2,000 in lighting gear for the enlargement.

“We have tons of different modifiers from umbrellas, softboxes, octaboxes, there’s so many,” mentioned Ethan Hannaford, studio coordinator. “We have the full nine yards pretty much.”

Urban After Dark to supply ‘Styled Sets,’ synthetic lighting programs

With the enlargement. Urban Studios, situated at 431 S. Jefferson Ave. Ste. 107, will even provide synthetic lighting programs for photographers seeking to hone these abilities, Vite mentioned.

The firm additionally plans to supply “Styled Sets.” Basically, Urban After Dark will arrange a themed set with all the suitable props and appropriately clad fashions. Photographers will get an allotted time related to lights to experiment with totally different photographs. It’s a option to hone your abilities with out having to e-book a solo session and is more cost effective.

The objective of the styled units is to “lower the barrier of entry” for photographers seeking to discover synthetic lighting, Vite mentioned.

To hire out the 480-square-foot studio begins at $56 for a 30-minute session, and costs enhance with extra time. Urban Studios sports activities 15-foot ceilings. Urban After Dark could have the identical charges for particular person classes.

The firm signed a three-year lease on the house in Wilhoit Plaza in December 2022 and Urban Studios can renew the lease on the finish of the 12 months, Vite mentioned. The total buying middle had almost 48,000 sq. ft and was appraised at $2.98 million, based on Greene County Assessor’s Office records.