Elevate Your Photography with Our Commercial Photo Studio Rental

Looking for the perfect space to bring your creative visions to life? Our fully-equipped commercial photo studio is available for rent, catering to portrait, product, and fashion photographers alike. Whether you’re capturing stunning portraits, showcasing products in the best light, or styling fashion shoots, our studio offers the ideal environment for all your needs.

Studio Features:

  • Portrait Photography: Our studio provides versatile backdrops and professional lighting setups to create captivating portraits. Perfect for headshots, family sessions, and creative portraits.

  • Product Photography: Utilize our lighting equipment and customizable shooting spaces to highlight every detail of your products. Whether it's small items or large-scale setups, we have you covered.

  • Fashion Photography: From editorial shoots to lookbooks, our spacious studio offers the perfect setting for fashion photography. Work with models, stylists, and a range of props to capture your creative vision.

Drop-In Convenience for Family, Wedding, and Engagement Photographers Don't let bad weather ruin your shoot! Our studio is available for drop-in rentals, providing a reliable backup location for family, wedding, and engagement photographers. Whether you're facing unexpected rain or just need a controlled environment, our studio is ready to accommodate your needs on short notice with “drop in” booking.

Book Your Session Today! Our studio is designed to support photographers of all levels, offering the space and resources you need to produce stunning images. Contact us now to reserve your spot and take your photography to the next level!

Reserve Forest City Studio: Your Photography Studio in Eastlake, Ohio

Since July 2024, Forest City Studio has become the ultimate creative hub for photographers just 25 mins from Cleveland. With easy, ground-level access—no elevators or stairs—just walk right in. Plus, our garage door allows for vehicle shoots, making it the perfect spot for all your photography needs! We offer hour, half day, full day, and drop in rates catering to all photographers. All studio rentals start at 65 dollars an hour, with additional add-on options listed below. Please reach out for more booking information.




Studio Amenities

Included with Your Session

Forest City Studio comes fully equipped with an array of furniture and props, including, couch, chairs, stools, décor, tables, a sound system, and set walls. Our Prop Library is stocked with various items to help you customize the space to fit your vision.

Additional Rental Amenities:

SPEEDOTRON LIGHT KIT

$45 ◂ per/unit ADD-ON

While other rental studio’s offer low powered monolights for rental, we offer the classic power house. The 2400 w/s SPEEDOTRON Light Kit includes: up to four strobe heads per pack, controlled by a Pocket Wizard that will work with any camera, and a variety of modifiers. We have 13 of these, with heads for each. At Forest City Studio you will never be lacking light. 

MUSLIN BACKDROPS

$20 ◂ ADD-ON

Includes use of any of our eight muslin backdrops. Amazing textures and colors to choose from.

SEAMLESS 9’ BACKDROPS

$15 ◂ per/unit ADD-ON

White, black, gray, seamless paper backdrop rolls are available. These beautiful rolls of paper are consumable, so please check availability with us so we have time to reorder if need be.

Lighting Modifiers

$10 ◂ per/unit ADD-ON


Transform your lighting with our extensive range of modifiers, including softboxes, strips, octabanks, cookies, gobos, lanterns, reflectors, snoots, fresnels, and scrims—giving you endless creative possibilities!

Light Table

$40 ◂ ADD-ON

Need to shoot products floating in space? We have you covered. We have a 4x4 Outline table with two Translume diffusers. 


Table Tops

$20 ◂ per/unit ADD-ON

Our diverse selection of twenty three tabletop surfaces ensures that your product will truly shine. 

Set Walls

$10 ◂ per/unit ADD-ON

We have faux brick, bead board, stained, and plain white set walls in many sizes. 

Photographic Assistant

$50 ◂ per/hour ADD-ON

Sometimes you need a second set of hands. No matter how hard you try to grow them, it’s just not going to happen. Don’t stress, we got you.

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