We hope the information below is of use to you. It is a composition of our photographic and video experience over the past 25 years. Some is relevant to hotel specific media, but most is relevant to all types of photography & video. We discuss topics such as “Five essential night time photography tips, through to “How to prepare your hotel for a photo shoot”.
Our goal here is to be an open source of photography and video tips that we have accumulated through our years of experience. If it can help someone with questions or save them time and money, then we are happy. PhotoWeb is a collection of talented and hard working photographers and videographers all working together to continually improve our quality and service for our clients.
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In this blog, we provide a lot of tips and techniques that can help you create your own hotel photography and we do that with two reasons in mind. The first is that we know that running a hotel can be difficult, and it’s certainly expensive. Getting your own photography done is one way of… Read more »
There’s probably a very obvious reason why people come to your hotel. It could be the scenery, the incredible beaches or its access to airports and ferry ports. Whatever it is, it’s worthwhile finding out what those reasons are and creating a story to highlight them on your website. Even though we talk a lot… Read more »
You’ve made the decision to have a go at creating your brochure, website or publicity photographs, and you want to make the best of it, and so you get a kit list together. Now, if you’ve watched professional photographers do their thing, you’ll have noticed that they tend to turn up with a van full… Read more »
Late summer is truly the season of the “golden hour,” when buildings and exteriors are bathed in a warm pre-dusk glow. With outdoor photography, it’s generally harder to use artificial lighting to illuminate your subject matter, making you more or less reliant on natural light. With evenings lasting well past 8pm, now is the perfect… Read more »
Very often we get asked to look at photos that friends and family in the hotel trade have taken in an effort to get images for their website and brochures. There’s nothing wrong with going it alone if you’re a small hotel, the cost of professional photography can be expensive, so it’s no wonder that… Read more »
I’m sure you’ve heard the term “that’s been PhotoShopped” in reference to a photograph that perhaps doesn’t look entirely real. It’s used mostly in a derogatory sense, usually by purists who think that the only way to present photography is in its original “no filtered” look. However, nearly all imagery is enhanced, edited or adjusted… Read more »
When we see photographers at work, they’re usually on one knee, pointing up at the sky, getting great angles and messing with various bits of expensive equipment to get things just right. It looks like an exciting job that is made perfect by the use of expensive lenses, lots of equipment and a keen eye.… Read more »
You can tell when a great photographer has taken a photo. There’s something about the setup, the light, the look, the angle and the colors. It just looks ‘different’. That’s not a fluke. If you’re tempted to take your own photos to publicise your hotel and you’ve never taken a photo before, then you’ll find… Read more »
You’ve probably got a fantastic hotel that you want to show off. You’ve got all the lighting set up; the frontages are looking fantastic, and the gardens are superb. So, you get ready to start taking your photos. And they turn out great. But there’s something missing… Very often, the artistic flair of a photographer… Read more »
I was recently talking to a friend of mine who is just getting into the world of photography, and he was discussing some of the tactics he employs. Many of these were pretty standard, I’d heard them all before, but one stood out. He was working a lot in the world of building photography, and… Read more »