How To Prepare Your Hotel For a Photo Shooting?
How To Prepare Your Hotel For A Photoshoot? To ensure your OTA listings and website has the best images and attracts the most attention, follow these guidelines below where I give you some useful tips to get the most out of your hotel photos. Follow the guidelines below to ensure every room and the exterior are set up in the right way.
Prepare Your Hotel
For A Photo Shoot
It is worth the extra effort to spend some time planning and preparing for a hotel photo shoot, as a well-organized preparation of your hotel leads to better results. If you’ve been thinking about booking a photographer to photograph your property, here are some tips on how to best prepare your property to create stunning hotel photos.
Preparing Your Reception
Reception is often one of the most clutter-filled areas of a hotel. Credit and paying advice. Parking signage. Brochures. Check-in and check-out information. Newspapers. Luggage. Clocks. Get rid of as much as possible so that surfaces are clear and organized, and anything not related to your own hotel brand should be removed from the desk, like OTA signs.
PREPARING YOUR Function Spaces
As a first step discuss with your pr-team what set ups of your function rooms you want to have photographed. As it might cause a change of the set ups during the photo shooting, make sure all your staff is briefed an on demand to guarantee a fast process. Make sure that all props for your settings are clean and in presentable conditions. Fresh flower help to add some color spots in huge function rooms. Brief your house technician team to be on demand for the shooting day.
PREPARING YOUR Bedrooms
As a luxury brand, you might be looking for a looser interior design look; accessories like flowers, books and magazines, or some fruit plates may add some spots of color to your bedrooms. Hotels targeting business customers may choose a more streamlined look with ironed bed linen, orderly pillows, and straight fold lines. Using props such as laptops can date an image very quickly, but can add some value to the overall appearance of the photos. Night shots can also add a more dramatic flair, in particular if your rooms have balconies and cityscape views.
PREPARING YOUR Lobby
Declutter the reception desk. Fluff up and arrange some pillows at the seating areas. Clean the windows and all glass surfaces like mirrors and displays. Remove distracting items such as trash bins, OTA signs, excessive décor, and any other items that you don’t want to have represented in the images.
PREPARING YOUR Restaurant
The restaurant should be partly closed for your guests on the shooting day. If you planning to add Lifestyle photos to the shooting make sure your staff is briefed and properly dressed on the shooting day. Align all chairs and set up your table props on each table of the restaurant. Clean windows and any glass surface. Make sure that all light features are working and switch them on prior the shooting. Eventually prepare 1 or 2 signature dishes of your restaurant to be included in the photos.
PREPARING YOUR Exterior
Exterior shots are important but much depends on the time of day that you shoot. Try to either start at dawn or finish at dusk, to take advantage of the softer light for your exteriors. If you decide to shoot your exterior shots at night, it can also be effective you ‘light up your property as much as you can. It literally means having your staff race around and switch on every light they can; but if you can achieve this to full effect it will make your property glow with warmth and look vibrant, warm welcoming – exactly the effect you are after!
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