Greg Ceo Studio provides comprehensive photography for hotel openings and renovations, as well as more limited photography for when you’ve just refreshed a few spaces or put up your holiday decorations. We are approved by Hilton and Hyatt and also shoot regularly for Omni, IHG, and independents. We are very familiar with brand standards.
Our job is to make sure you have all of the images you need for your website in order to sell your hotel: exteriors, public spaces, guest rooms, drone, food & beverage, and lifestyle. We can also provide masthead video and virtual tours. We charge a day rate which includes the time of the photographer, photo gear, and all retouching. Our pricing differs mainly based on what level of retouching you’re looking for.
Hotel Photography Products
Options for brand-standard website imagery, luxury-level retouching, social media coverage, drone, food & beverage, and lifestyle scenarios.
Upscale Hotel
Photography
This is photography primarily for upscale hotel properties for use on their main website. We shoot up to 12 images per day and include up to 30 minutes of retouching per image. This product includes basic retouching like removing exit signs and sprinkler heads. The images will meet any relevant brand standards.
Luxury Hotel
Photography
This is photography primarily for luxury properties for use on their main website. We shoot up to 8 images per day and include up to 5 hours of retouching per image. This product includes advanced retouching like dropping views into windows, removing all wrinkles from linens, and any special requests like filling in sparse greenery or adding logos to meeting room screens. The images will meet any relevant brand standards.
Social Media
Photography
This is photography primarily for social media use. We’ll take up to 60 images per shoot and provide basic post-processing. Our photographer will capture images as he sees them rather than working from a shot list. The images will be shot quickly with minimal to no set-up and no particular image can be guaranteed. We offer this as an add-on to an architectural shoot with the photographer capturing detail shots and getting additional angles of set-ups as he goes. These images do not meet brand standards for main website imagery.
Drone Photography and
Videography
Our photographer John McKinnon is an FAA licensed drone pilot who will get any needed permissions to fly safely and legally. He is very experienced and captures striking aerial imagery of hotel exteriors. Though nothing is guaranteed, he has even been able to get permission to fly his drone at airport hotels.
Food
Photography
We will work with your chef and bartender to capture images of food and beverages. We can get quick shots, shooting whatever they are able to prepare and put in front of us as they make it, and we can also produce fully art directed F&B shots with the help of a food stylist. The number of food and beverage images captured per day depends upon the desired level of styling, art direction, and retouching.
Lifestyle
Photography
For a Lifestyle photo shoot, we can work with the hotel’s staff, friends and family, or we can cast professional models and bring in stylists and a producer - it’s up to you and based on your budget. We will shoot up to 6 scenarios per day (a scenario is the models in a space doing an activity) and provide one fully retouched perfect image per scenario, though we are also happy to give you the outtakes to use for social at no additional cost. The main select from each scenario will meet brand tandards.
Hotel Videography Products
From a modern masthead loop to a fully edited property overview—plus social-ready clip delivery.
30 Second
Masthead Video
Watch Video
Our videographer will shoot up to fourteen 3-6 second-long clips over two days and then edit them together into a 30 second loop for use on your masthead. This can include architecture, drone, F&B, and lifestyle imagery. We can also license music for your video and edit the loop to match its rhythms.
Two Minute
Property Overview Video
Watch Video
If you want something longer to show on your in-room tvs or elsewhere, we can create a fully edited property video of more spaces, more food and beverage offerings, more lifestyle – whatever you want to include. This would be shot over 4-5 days.
Social Media
Video Clips
Watch Video
Rather than editing the clips we shoot into a video, we can prepare them for independent use on your social media sites. And of course, we can use the clips from one shoot to provide both products, which is a very efficient use of your budget.
Add-Ons
Optional services to expand coverage, polish selects, and support production quality.
A La Carte
Retouching
If you choose to shoot at our Upscale rate, we can accommodate special requests for additional retouching as needed, including dropping views into windows. (Almost all needed retouching should be included in our Luxury product.)
Virtual
Tours and 360s
We offer both 360 degree views of rooms and public spaces, and Matterport virtual tours.
Styling
We have a stable of preferred, highly skilled, food, prop, wardrobe, and hair and make-up stylists who can be added to the photo crew upon request. If your budget allows, we particularly recommend bringing in our soft goods stylist for a guest room shoot – she makes perfect beds and works regularly for Ralph Lauren and West Elm.
Request Availability & Estimate
Tell us your property, timeline (opening / renovation / refresh), and which products you’re considering (photo, drone, food & beverage, lifestyle, video, tours). We’ll help you scope coverage to match your brand standards and marketing goals.
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