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The story · 7 min read

A daylight studio and the shoots that nearly did not happen

A small studio kept losing hours to briefs, revisions and chasing. It rebuilt the boring half of the business — and got the creative half back.

Jonas Wren · 22 July 2026

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Chosen for the windows

Sable took a lease on a fourth-floor room in Berlin for one reason: nine metres of north-facing glass that holds soft light from ten to four.

Everything else — the cyc wall, the kitchen, the freight lift — was added around that light.

Sable Studio — Chosen for the windows
Sable Studio — Chosen for the windows

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The catalogue shot in one afternoon

A footwear brand lost their studio 48 hours before a 60-product catalogue shoot. They called at 7pm on a Tuesday.

We pre-lit overnight, ran two stations against the daylight and delivered all 60 by Friday. They have shot every season here since.

Loaded in at eight, shot forty looks, out by six. The room just works.

Nadia Sorel — Fashion photographer

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Good shoots are planned on the phone

Daylight is a schedule, not a switch. Which hours you get decides your shot list, your crew and your budget.

Twenty minutes with our producer usually saves a full day on set.

The only studio where the listed dimensions matched the tape measure.

Felix Aumann — Producer

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