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.


Breakfast

Breakfast

Hotel Breakfast Photography Breakfast Around the World: A Visual Journey Through Hotel Dining When it comes to travel, there’s a universal truth that transcends language and culture: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s not just about...
Fresh air and nature

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 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

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

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...
Hotel Photography Explained – Tips for Hoteliers and Marketeers

Hotel Photography Explained – Tips for Hoteliers and Marketeers

Hotel Photography Tips On this page you will find all kinds of tips, tricks and guidance on hotel photography written by expert hotel photographer, Michelle Chaplow. Hotel photography is an art form that can encompass many different types of photography, from stunning...