Recreating Sunrise Window Light in a Studio | One Light Setup

Recreating sunrise window light in a studio using one constant light. This timelapse shows the full build, lighting changes, and final photos from a studio experiment at the Art Gallery of Burlington.

I spent the day in the photography studio at the Art Gallery of Burlington experimenting with light.

The idea was simple: build a small room and mimic early morning sunrise light shining through a window using just one constant light source. I kept the light warm and tested different positions, angles, and intensity levels to see how the mood, shadows, and textures changed throughout the space.

This video includes a timelapse of the set coming together, the lighting adjustments along the way, and the finished photographs at the end.

These kinds of slow, intentional lighting experiments are some of my favorite ways to learn, reset creatively, and spark ideas for future shoots. More concepts like this are already in the works.

Thanks for watching.