Hi folks,
If I was to design a web page for a hotel, how would I go about taking the pictures?
I have a good digital camera 2.1 million pixels, n=but when I look at some hotel sites on the web those pictures look fabulous. Would they have been taken professionally?
Should I ask the hotel for some pictures they may have from their brochures etc..?
What would you recommend I do?
If I did take the pictures myself, and maybe they could do with a little touching up, what would you recommend I do with them?
Regards,
Kwaoc
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>>when I look at some hotel sites on the web those pictures look fabulous. Would they have been taken professionally?
Most definitely. And professionally retouched and optimized as well.
Ask the hotel if they have existing publicity shots and if you can use them. Those will show the hotel at its absolute best. You can always take photos yourself, and show them to the client so they can pick what they want. Sometimes the photos you take will be great, other times they won't, but let the client decide that. If the hotel has brochures, ask if you can use shots from those.
You'll need to reduce and optimize the photos for use on the web. No more than 100 dpi (though dpi isn't what counts on the web, it's the pixel size). All the photos will need to be rbg, and jpg is probably the format you'll need.
I'd say, take a lot of photos quickly, let the client decide if they want to use them, and if they don't, ask them to hire a pro to shoot some publicity shots for them. That will let them see what kind of photos you take, and they can decide if they'd be happy with that.
Then they're in control of both the look of the photos and the budget for them. If they want to spring for a pro, they can. If they don't, they can pick from what already exists and/or what you take.
If the photos you take are OK, they shouldn't need a whole lot of touching up. Cropping, maybe some minor adjustments. You don't want to misrepresent the place.
The reality of the matter is that most consumer 2.1 megapixel cameras aren't going to cut it. There is a HUGE difference in quality between a $300 2.1Mpix camera, and a $1500 2.1Mpix camera. You cant really re-touch and add detail. It just wont happen. To get quality photos youll need either a quality camera, or to hire a quality photographer with a quality camera.
There is a huge quality difference, to be sure. But since these are going on a website, they're not going to be real large, and they're not going to be high res.
Pro photos would of course be better, but if the client likes the photos he takes, they would be OK. I'd only do minor retouching, just because they should still look like the place, not some airbrushed nightmare. ;-)
If this was for a printed piece, there wouldn't even BE an option. A consumer level digital camera would DEFINITELY be out. A decent 35mm would be fine, but a pro photographer would be almost a given.
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by: dhayfulePosted on 2004-02-05 at 05:20:33ID: 10280126
Hi,
As per you say, you require photographs. Under some situations it may happen that you may require photographs to be displayed on the web which they already have. Also some photographs you may have to click out through your camera.
Its now the next stage where you have to touch up the images using an image editing tool like photoshop. Where you have option to touch up the picture.
It really depends. I would rather recommend to first ask them if they have the photographs that they want to display on web. Those photographs can belong to some occations, parties and other functions. This will save your time from taking photographs by your own self. Secondly if ever you think that you need some extra photographs then you may go ahead to have some with your camera.
But Since you are the Web designer, and they are your clients, its your duty to touch up the images, and its not a tough task. You have options under the Image menu of Photoshop to do so. You even have various filters to apply special effects. Trust me you will actually enjoy editing them in Photoshop. Finally you have to export the images to JPEG or GIF Format so as they are smaller in file size.
But first get set to collect the Photographs. All the best.
Let me know if you got what ever I said.
Bye
Regards