Studio Pod
How it works · Studio Pod

Three steps.
Five minutes.

The Studio Pod headshot experience with a futuristic twist - book a session, walk in and shoot, receive your finals before you leave the room. Patented multi-source lighting bakes the studio quality in automatically. The whole arc from booking to a finished gallery is under fifteen minutes.

5 minAverage session time
15High-res finals per session
0Photographers required
$50Walk-in session price
The process

Book. Shoot. Inbox.

Three steps. No photographer scheduled. No conference room booked. No multi-week post-production wait. The whole sequence runs at the speed of the person taking the headshot.

01 · Book

Pick a studio. Pick a time.

Use the custom scheduling tool to pick a walk-in studio, a Roadie shipped to your event, or a session at your corporate portal. $50 walk-in, $850/day Roadie in Houston, or ship-anywhere starting at $2,500 for a 2-day event. No back-and-forth, no phone tag.

02 · Shoot

Five minutes. No photographer.

Walk in, follow the on-screen flow, choose your lighting, shoot. The pod handles framing, exposure, and the multi-source DMX lighting recipe automatically. You see every photo on the touchscreen the moment it's taken. Retakes cost nothing.

03 · Inbox

Email + text · before you leave.

Your finals land in your inbox and on your phone before you leave the room. Pick your favorite, send to your retoucher tier (free AI baseline, or human hand-retouch at $10/photo), download. The whole arc from walking in to finished gallery is under fifteen minutes.

What's inside a Studio Pod

A photo studio. Automated. Patented.

Studio Pod is a mobile, automated, professional-level photography studio. No photographer required. The patented multi-source DMX lighting + real Canon DSLR + AI-driven framing + brand-locked backdrop produce a uniform studio-grade headshot at the touch of a button.

  • Patented multi-source lighting. 8-tube DMX-controlled LED rig invented because a decade of corporate shoot days taught us a single light source puts shadows under every subject's eyes. No flat fluorescent. No bright kitchen window. Studio recipe, baked in.
  • Real Canon DSLR. Not a smartphone camera, not an iPad on a stand. A 24-megapixel Canon EOS 80D with a 24mm Canon EF prime lens. Print-ready files at 300 dpi for the surfaces that matter.
  • Live preview on the touchscreen. You see every photo the moment it's taken. Retakes cost nothing and take seconds. Walk out when you actually like your finals - not when the queue moves you on.
  • AI baseline + human hand-retouch. AI handles skin smoothing, color balance, backdrop tidy by default. A human retoucher takes the upgrade tier at $10/photo for finals going on annual report covers, billboards, or partner pages.
  • Instant delivery. Finals land in your inbox + on your phone before you leave the room. No multi-day editing queue, no "we'll send the gallery next Tuesday."
  • Brand controls + corporate portal. Lock the backdrop color, lighting recipe, and crop ratio once. Every employee shoots against the same configuration. The corporate portal handles named exports, badge-spec sizing, and HRIS push automatically.
Three ways to use it

Teams large and small. Individuals too.

Studio Pod ships in three deployment models. Pick the one that fits your team size, location pattern, and budget envelope.

Walk-in

The brick-and-mortar studios.

Eight permanent studios in Houston, Chicago, and Aliso Viejo. $50 walks in. Fifteen high-resolution finals walk out. Open Monday-Friday 9am-4pm. Book online; arrive on time; sit down for five minutes; leave with a gallery. The original Houston location is at 4809 Blossom St.

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Delivery

Roadie ships to you.

Two Pelican cases, five-minute setup, ships UPS round-trip to any US venue. Flat day rates, unlimited headshots, no per-subject fees. Used for corporate refresh days, conferences, satellite-office rollouts. Pricing starts at $850/day in Houston and $2,500 for a 2-day ship-anywhere package.

See Roadie
Amenity

Permanent install in your lobby.

S1 installs in under 4 hours. S3 installs in 1 day. Both live in a corporate lobby, campus building, or property-managed amenity space year-round. Office tenants, campus students, or BOMA building-managed teams get on-demand headshots without leaving the building.

See S1 and S3
Try it yourself

Book a $50 walk-in. See for yourself.

The fastest read on whether Studio Pod actually works the way this page says it does is to walk into one. $50 gets you fifteen high-resolution finals, retouched, in your inbox before you leave the room. Eight studios across Houston, Chicago, and Aliso Viejo. No commitment, no upsell.