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.
We welcome your feedback and questions.
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 »
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 »
Your hotel is more than just its exterior. Of course, you want the outside to look absolutely fantastic, but a lot goes on inside and if you can capture key moments here, you can give your potential customers an insight into what to expect. For example, many hotels have excellent restaurant and dining facilities so… Read more »
A question came up at a networking event recently that got me thinking about how hoteliers could get started taking their own hotel photographs. A guy came up to me and asked how to start. He’d been taking photos of his own hotel and they just didn’t match the quality of his rivals. It was… Read more »
Back in the “olden days” of photography, a good photographer would spend a long time setting up a shot, picking the right filters, adjusting for light and then finally taking a set of photos which he or she wouldn’t actually get to see until a few hours later in the dark room. A professional set-up… Read more »
I was recently helping one of our photographers on a hotel photography shoot in some rather nice weather in India and like the friend he is, he let me take some photographs with my own camera to see if I could match his masterpieces. Full disclosure, I just write the blog here and pass tips on to… Read more »
If you intend to create your own portfolio of images with which to market your hotel, there are a few pieces of equipment that many professional hotel photographers see as absolutely essential. They will obviously have more equipment with them than the three I’m about to suggest, but these are seen as the ones they… Read more »
Want some great photographs of your hotel? Hopefully the answer to that is “yes” as you’ll have realised that giving your potential customers some superb pictures of your hotel will increase your sales and also help your website rank as these pictures are shared. So with that in mind, we want to help you along… Read more »
That’d be us! If you run your own hotel and you want quality photography to help sell your rooms then you need to ensure you hire a company that is trusted by some of the best in the world. Anyone can buy a camera these days, pop up a website and then tout themselves as… Read more »
London, UK (20 February 2013), PhotoWeb the best-in-class hotel photography, video production & syndication company has been chosen by Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts to create more than 120 virtual tours and still photographs for its hotel websites, enabling its online site visitors to get a true sense of its unique Swiss character and heritage. Independent… Read more »