The Little Room Studio

I have brought my young children here once a year for 3 years and they have always had a blast. Eddie is fun, patient, and really takes the time to work with them to get some great shots. I wouldn’t come back if I wasn’t completely happy with the photos! The time allotted for the photo shoot is very generous with choices of backdrops.
I have to respond to one of the negative posts about direction. I’ve used many photographers (professional, shoot for fashion magazines, film, etc.) and although we’ve had some beautiful photos taken, the photographers haven’t always been a font of information as far as how to pose. You have to take ownership of what you want, what look you are trying to achieve, and the end result of what you want your photos to represent. Little Room Studio really does a terrific job of making the photo shoot fun, getting the shots I am looking for, and the pictures are beautiful. We have too many to pick from usually and we always enjoy going through the cd.
Highly recommend!

To pretty much summarize it up… You get what you pay for.
My 2 best friends and I came to the Little Room Studio with a deal we found off Groupon. The photo shoot took place in a one bedroom, located on the 2^nd floor of an apartment unit.
Although the photographer was really nice, she gave us little to no direction at all. There were only so many poses that we could think of ourselves, but some ideas would have been great. After all, this is the service were paying for.
When we got home, we looked at the Cd which included 150+ photos and to be honest, we liked only 2 or 3. We were all extremely disappointed with the way the shots turned out. Everything about the photos were awful. From the lighting to the angles.
I wouldn’t recommend coming here. Don’t waste your time or money.

Bummer… here is a perfect example of «you get what you pay for». I grabbed the Groupon promotion because the studio was open to photographing our entire family (a child and two large dogs).
The «studio» really is a «little room» in an apartment. Yikes… certainly left something to be desired.
Very nice but certainly not experienced or professional — the photographer kept asking us questions like, «Hmmm.what do you want to do next»? «How do you like to stand/​pose»? And, during the shoot, she repeatedly showed us some shots on her camera during the shoot, as if to get our approval. It was really awkward.
The end results were photos with poor lighting (I have quite a few shots where the top halves of our bodies are lighter than the bottom) and just awkward angles (for example, my family looking upwards as if we had shrunk, or very far away).
Sorry, I can’t recommend this «little» business.

Tremendous value for the price. Had two very successful shoots with them, will book again as soon as my hair grows out more. Be sure to book the make up artist for the best results possible.

So, here’s the deal. Eddie was full of energy, kind and tried really hard. That being said, if you are thinking of bringing you child for a shoot — don’t. It was clear that the experience wasn’t there and the space is well, exactly what they described — a little room. Which makes shooting a small child near impossible since they move and turn every which way. I’ll give you that shooting kids is difficult however, we’ve had shoots before with photographers and the experience was much different. One of the key things about kids is they don’t hold poses — so you can’t say «That works, that’s great», you just have to shoot a boat load of photographs. I wasn’t surprised that we didn’t get very many good shots, as in none. Our kid was tired and Eddie kept making this weird high– pitched Mardi Gras sound to get her to turn to her vs. actually moving to get the shot (which is what you should do with kids but can’t because of the little room)
However what did surprise me was the quality of the lighting. It was horrible. If you are going to do a studio shoot — know how to use your lights. The lighting in our photographs were flat. If you want your product shot — great lighting. If you want a person shot — not so great.
In addition to that. I let them know ahead of time that we were bringing a kid, that it was very unlikely that she would last the full 1 ½ hours so, be aware of that, etc. We arrived early to get any paperwork done ahead of time and they were running late. That is one of my biggest pet peeves — don’t still be setting up the room when we arrive, have it done before we get there. As we sat there, Eddie went back and forth between the studio and a mysterious back room no less than 10 times. Honestly, do your prep beforehand.
They may be great for professional headshots and products, but don’t bother if you are thinking of bringing your kid there.

I was very impressed with my shoot! Eddie was awesome. She has great energy and lots of ideas. I had her shoot some professional photos for work, as well as engagement photos with my fiancé. We were given lots of options with every look. We had a lot of different angles and poses to choose from. She also had a lot of props to use, too.
I had my make up done with her make up artist and was very impressed. She gave me a great, natural look and then later glammed it up a bit for some of the other photos.
I would absolutely come back here!

Totally FANTASTIC! I cannot say enough great things about this photo experience! It was super reasonably priced and Eddie was fab. I got far more than I expected from the 90 minute shoot. We did some professional looks for my author photo/​consulting photos and then some cute ones for dating. We also did a few with the cupcakes I brought– some photos for my website and book… I brought about 8 tanks, t-​shirts, 3 dresses and 1 suit. We probably had time for all of them but I was too lazy to keep changing! So we got a solid five wardrobe changes with headshots, closeups, ¾ and full length.
AWESOME!!!
I am going back soon. Next time I need to do a little more mystic tanner, volumize my hair and I might even have them do my makeup (they offer really good deals).
Bridget Loves

My friends and I wanted to get our pictures taken before some of us got big and/​or pregnant. We set up a 3 hour session with about 5 changes of clothes, which for three girls is quite a lot of clothes, shoes and just stuff.
Our photographer was Eddie, she was great. She totally put us at ease. I really liked the fact that she would show us some of the pictures she had just taken, so we can see what we liked and didn’t like right away.
We were given a copy of our photographs right after our session. The online gallery was great for sharing with family and friends. Whenever I email them with any question, their response time is almost immediate. I really value that kind of professionalism.
The location is small and homey, but don’t be fooled they are very professional and friendly. Everyone there was very helpful and patient with us. It was a great experience and I’m definitely going back. Did I mention, we loved our pictures!

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Great place to have photos taken, but beware of the cat-​eyes if your photos require you to look at the camera.
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I purchased a Groupon for this place because getting a good deal on head shots is an opportunity I know never to pass up… even if I’m not using them immediately. After a few months I finally made an appointment and made the trek from Long Beach after work one day. I actually left work early to make it on time.
Arrival:
I found the street easily but there isn’t an obvious sign on the duplex apartment building that makes it obvious (it says LRS… which I NOW know stands for Little Room Studio). When I arrived I was told to wait in the living room while Eddie prepared the room and Gnatti finished up with a makeup application student. I have done many photo shoots and helped friends at many photo shoots so I was not nervous but I was a little uncomfortable sitting in a strange apartment.
Eddie checked out my wardrobe selections and exclaimed that she loved all the bold color choices and simple designs (like I said, I have experience) so she decided that we might have to use more outfit changes than the Groupon promised… at no additional charge of course.
Changing room:
They use their bathroom as a changing room. It doesn’t have the best makeup lighting but it works well enough. I used the mirror over the sink and the one by the window to make sure my makeup looked good enough in several lighting situations. Since I had just come from work, my hair and makeup needed a little work so my first outfit took about 10 minutes to prep for. After that it was just a quick wardrobe change and some quick hair straitening to transition between outfits.
The studio:
Despite the fact that the makeup chairs, waiting area and changing room are all just parts of the apartment and feel as such; the studio has a professional feel to it.
One wall is lined with costumes and outfits. There is a CD player that Eddie keeps her iPod hooked up to for ambiance. And there are a few screens that she uses for lighting adjustments.
Eddie put me at ease and after some test shots we jumped right into it. For the most part she just had me smile and adjust my position slightly but every once in a while she had me do more character oriented expressions and positions. Those were fun but they weren’t what I was looking for. Every 20 – 30 shots Eddie would stop and show me the progress using the camera’s display screen. The photos looked good on the small display screen. I wore 7 different outfits and ended up with over 400 hi-​resolution photos.
I was only supposed to receive one touched up photo or 10 digital photos according to the Groupon but she gave me ALL of the photos.
When I got home I started clicking through all of the photos on my laptop. Seeing myself over 400 times in a row made me never want to look in a mirror again. :)
About halfway through the photos I started to notice something strange about my eyes which really worried me because with head shots, the eyes are a big part of the look. I zoomed in a little and realized that my pupils looked like hourglasses in every single photo. Strange, I thought. I ran to a mirror and looked closely at my pupils… normal and round. Hmmm. Then it donned on me. The reason my pupils looked like hourglasses, or cat-​eyes, was because Eddie had been shooting all of my photos from behind the screens so the flash/​lights were reflecting everywhere but the tiny slit that she sat behind with her camera. I was curious if this was just an occurrence with me or if all of the photos they took were like this. So I went to the LRS website and lo’ and behold… everyone’s pupils look like this if they look at the camera (which you have to do for head shots). Shit. Next time I will make a point of keeping my pupils looking round.
Verdict:
I am satisfied with the photo shoot and consider the fact that they give you a CD with all the photos such a big PLUS, that I can forgive the weird cat-​eyes thing. Also, they give you cucumber water which I love.

I was running late for my appointment and a little lost. Eddie came out to the street to greet me… from there it was a great experience!
Eddie was friendly, easy going and most of all made me relax for the pictures. I don’t like to get my picture taken and had to do it for work. Despite being late, I never felt rushed or that I had to hurry.
She worked around me in a way that I felt comfortable and at ease. It almost didn’t feel like work, but when I saw the pictures, I could tell she knew what she was doing. The lighting was great!
The pictures turned out great and I got a lot of them in several different outfits. The one that Natalie touched up looks amazing! Made me want to learn photoshop!
Overall it was a great experience and I will definitely go back!

I won a free photo shoot with The Little Room Studio… twice in a row! You can enter to win by entering your email address on their website at
This is my first photo shoot ever and I was really excited about it. Eddy was a lot of fun to work with. She’s professional, friendly, and fun.
The actual studio of The Little Room Studio is literally a little room studio. It’s the size of a standard bed room, filled with photography equipment. Professional lights, background papers of a dozen or so different colors, and a wardrobe filled with mostly women’s clothing. Going to The LRS is like going to a friend’s apartment. When you walk in, you immediately feel like cool, comfortable vibe about the place.
The LRS also provide optional make-​up services for you to look your best. And they do retouching on your photos. I got my photo shoot for free and got some nice photos. So I’m happy…5 stars! :)

The Little Room Studio… Great experience & I am grateful for the wonderfully warm, professional & friendly staff. This was my first photo shoot and I received so much for the price! Thank you Morgan & Eddie!

Loved this place! I am not a big photo shoot guy, so I can’t compare to alot of places. The biggest thing I can say though is that this place gives you the CD with all your shots. To me, that is HUGE. The competition needs to stop being greedy with their shots and do what this place does by giving them to us on a dvd.
Overall they were very nice and did a good job. It’s a very homey/​cozy feeling in there, unlike a professional studio, which is fine with me. I used a gruopon here btw.
A couple of things:
–Bring your own props if you want to do some silly shots. they have props there, but they are a bit random
–Bring your ipod for music to listen to while doing shots, they have a stereo there you can hook it up to
–Know what types of shots/​poses you want to do ahead of time. i felt like the photographer was there to shoot while giving minimal input and we directed it. I am naturally a director type personality, so I loved that we had the freedom to shoot whatever poses we wanted. If I were not such a strong personality type, the photographer might have gave more direction, but I dunno.

There is nothing as sweet to the ears of two very narcissistic bloggers as a groupon for a photo shoot. For $ 59 (a package that usually costs $ 240) my co-​writer and I got dolled up and now have documentation to prove how g.d. cute we are.
The studio is in a residential area (read: you will be walking up into what looks like someone’s home), and once you’re inside the homey feel lends to the comfort.
Eddie, our photographer, was super nice and fun and helped ease us into our first time in front of a professional camera (except for the time our intern brought his expensive douchey camera to some party we were at — but that doesn’t count). She played music, suggested poses («look annoyed» … yeah, we’ve got that one down) and showed us the shots as she went along.
It took about 5 minutes for Eddie to put all our shots on a CD and walked us through how to use the password protected website with our shots. As the narcissistic bloggers we are, we immediately got ourselves to the a computer to bask in our beauty.

I had the Groupon, but I was still a paying customer and the quality of my photos was not great…
I took about half of my photos in dresses with my legs exposed. Eddie admitted in the beginning that she didn’t have the low flash working for the first few shots, but it looked like they had fixed it since they took about 10 minutes out of my session to attempt to sort it out.
Once I received my CD all of my photos had dark legs and a light upper body making me look like I’m wearing some horrible looking nylons or something and now I can’t use them for anything unless I crop out my bottom half. When I sent feedback I received a simple message, «I’ll let Eddie know» and never heard from them again.
My touched up print included in the package looked nice since they fixed the leg color, but that still leaves me with a bunch of others that are useless.
The photos when I’m wearing pants turned out all right, but I still wasn’t overly impressed. Eddie didn’t seem very professional nor her assistant. Overall the experience was pretty awkward. I feel bad giving such a poor review, but I really had a poor experience.
I guess I got what I paid for. I got a couple of really nice shots, but the majority (there are over 300) are unusable because of the lighting. I can’t imagine paying full price at a place like this. I wouldn’t go again, Groupon or not.

I had SO much fun with them it was insane. My friend and I had gotten their groupon deal and decided to cash in on it so we went some arbitrary day after work for a photo shoot. I had gone with the idea that I should come out with something relatively useful, like a professional pose and some good headshots, and maybe one funny shot. Well, turns out everything was kinda funny…
I paid an extra 75 to get my makeup done, which I felt was totally worth it because I dont know the first thing about makeup, and Marienne (sp?) knew EVERYTHING. She did such a fab job and I’ll be forever grafetful to her, and I know that I will never be able to look like that again probably. It was so natural but made me look so much better! She gave me cheekbones and totally hid my pimples and cut that my cat had given me earlier that day. It was awesome. If there was a way to make that stay permanently on my face, I would have done it.
Onto the photoshoot, I just had so much fun with it. I was being totally silly and using all their props that they had lying around, even taking things that were not props (a lamp) and turning them into one! I had brought along clip on cat ears, which was probably what started all the sillyness, for my ‘fun’ pose, and that just escalated to feather boas, monster slippers, floppy hats, wands, etc. It was so much fun.
Edie, our photographer was fun and helped us come up with ideas and was enthusiastic about everything that we did, which was great! I highly recommend her, I think she’s a fabulous photographer and very passionate about what she does =).

I’m not one to break the streak of 5 star ratings, but I’d be lying if I said my experience here was «WooHOo, as good as it gets.» «A-​OK» is definitely spot on for me. I only came here because I needed grad pics taken and saw the special on Groupon. It cost $ 60 for a ninety min shoot. I think reg price is over 100 $, which I’d definitely say is not worth it. The place a bit difficult to locate, as it was in a residential neighborhood. That being said, it did not have a professional appeal at all. It feels going to a friends house for a shoot so she can improve her portfolio. The house itself was pretty cute and quaint, and nicely decorated.
When I arrived, I called to find out which house it was cos the house numbers weren’t apparent. Someone came out and waived me down so it was nice. When I ascended the stairs (it’s located on the second floor) no one greeted me and I walked feeling aloof and out of place. When I stepped in, I stood there quietly while a model and the make up artist (i think) were chatting as though I was not present. I put my stuff on the floor and just looked around. When the make up artist left, it was the previous client that welocmed me to put my things on the couch. Uncertain about where to go, what steps to partake, i just went outside and chilled (and, also, b/​c it was so stuffy in side). Ventilation needs to be better because the air was stagnant and still inside. After about ten minutes, the photographer came outside to get me and showed me the «dressing room.» I changed etc and took my timebecause she informed me the room was not ready. WHile playing around with my make up and hair, i heard banging noises from the adjacent room. I guess she started setting up in there. I took my sweet time until I heard the commotion dissipate, then walked out to ensure that she was ready. The dressing room/​bathroom was nicely decorated and roomy, and the large window provided an adequate amount of fresh air.
Eddie, the photographer is very sweet and friendly, albeit was uncertain. I am not a model and hence never stepped foot in a photoshoot of this type before and was looking for some direction. I expected a very confident photographer that’d guide me through the process, but I received no guidance whatsoever. I was lost and confused through out the whole shoot and she seemed so too. Advice: find ways to make your clients feel more comfortable. At the end of the shoot, Eddie had me put on a funny hat for kicks and take some photos. It was only then that I felt a bit more relaxed. I wish she would have done that at the beginning of the shoot to loosen me up. I think Eddie needs to be a bit more adamant about her position as a professional photographer and take initiative.
The end product was great. Eddie took a quick five mins to upload the pics onto a cd and handed it off to me. Very high resolution pictures awaiting my selection to publish and print.

First off, I must say that I have been depending on Unilocal reviews for years now but have never felt compelled to write a review myself… until now! The Little Room Studio is an awesome studio that was top notch from the photographer and the service to the pictures they shot for us!
I actually found this studio through
because they were offering a great deal that was just too good to pass up. When I looked at their site, I was a bit hesitant because I was looking to have family portraits taken and most of their shots were a bit more edgy than I was looking for. But the great reviews on Unilocal convinced me they were worth a shot.
Our session was awesome. We have a two year old and a five month old. Not the most ideal ages for taking pictures. But Eddie and Julie were so patient. They engaged our two year old and got him to laugh or smile in a lot of the pictures. Right off the bat they tried to make him feel comfortable by showing him their fish tank and acting goofy for him during the picture taking. They were very accomodating and really cared about how we wanted our pictures to turn out. I can sometimes be a wuss when it comes to stating exactly what I want… but Eddie and Julie were so nice, that I felt absolutely comfortable expressing my ideas and what I wanted from the shoot!
One of the things that was great about our shoot was that they send you a questionnaire about what kind of photos you would like to have. The result, our pictures came out exactly how we wanted… and then some!!!

Great photographer in a comfortable setting with PERFECT lighting. Did a couple of group shots and everyone looked amazing.

This studio caters to the Hollywood professional looking for great image representation and these pro’s don’t waste your money or your time. They KNOW the business and are expert at getting you what you need to succeed without breaking the bank! Only attitude here is helpfulness!
They can set-​you-​up with the promotional material you’ve been looking for in a flash!