Hotel & resort photography

Guests come first, and the schedule is built around them. Rooms are photographed as they are released and held, pools and beaches at first light before loungers fill, restaurants before service, the lobby in the quiet hour after check-out. Any guest who could be recognised is left out of the frame or asked to sign a release, and the hotel decides in advance which areas the crew may enter and when. A single staff contact for the day, and a walk-through the afternoon before, keep the eight hours for photographs rather than for finding keys.

Spaces read better in use: a couple at the infinity pool, a guest on the spa bed, a server pouring coffee at breakfast. Those people are staff or hired models, and every one signs a model release before any photograph appears in the hotel’s marketing, its booking engine or paid advertising. The shot list is agreed with the marketing team before the day and tied to where each image will run, so the 80 photographs cover the pages that need them instead of the same pool from ten angles.

For a single villa or condo, villa and rental photography is the smaller service. For a wedding or an event held at the hotel, the wedding and corporate event services cover people rather than property, and aerial views of the resort are booked as a separate drone service, flown under the rules of the Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil (AFAC).