Blog Category: Hotel Photography Tips
This section offers sound advice to hoteliers on how to prepare for their next photo-shoot, with technical advice, specifications for hotel photography, how to choose a hotel photographer, and how to manage that all-important shoot. Follow these tips carefully and you will achieve first-class hotel photography with minimal disruption to the establishment’s day-to-day running.
Fresh air and nature
Trends and tendencies for Hotel Photography in 2023 There is a new visual narrative emerging for hotels. Hotel Essence founder Michelle Chaplow shares her first-hand experience Images showing fresh air and the great outdoors is very appealing to guests: in fact,...Festive holiday photography
Festive Hotel Photography Christmas Holiday and festive decorations are one of the most complicated aspects of a hotel to photograph. Low light, reflections in baubles, shiny sparkling surfaces and contrasting high lights with deep dark greens of the Christmas tree...
Hotel websites: beware of the panoramic crop
By Michelle Chaplow Please don’t cut my head and legs off In every family there is one person who is a disaster with a camera – someone who has a reputation for cutting off people’s heads whenever they take a picture. So, when a camera or phone is offered...
Styling a hotel bed
How to style a hotel bed – Hotel Photogrqaphy Tips & tricks. by Hospitality photographer Michelle Chaplow & room stylist Sonja Haberstroh Beds are indeed very complicated to photograph. So how do we overcome this problem, especially as the camera is...