Shooting in hotels at reduced rates?

Anyone do this?

I'm pretty sure I've heard of hotels offering discounted prices to photographers to allow them use of one of their rooms for a couple of hours (not an overnight stay, obviously).

I was wondering if anyone here has done this before and if they could share the details of the hotel so others could contact them?

I've managed to get 'in' with a hotel and have been using their rooms for portraiture for a while now. However, the rooms aren't exactly huge (though they're nicely sized, I suppose, just a bit cramped when two light stands a model and a photographer all need to be there at once).

So I'd like to try and find somewhere around the place with big rooms that don't mind letting photographers work away (preferably with discounted pricing on shorter stays).


Was just wondering, as above, if anyone here is doing this and what hotel they're using? I'm in Drogheda, but the only hotel I'd like to get into that I cant, is the D Hotel (apparently they've larger rooms, but not only do they want full price, but also feel they're in a position where they should be able to "approve" my photographs before I leave!).


So yeah... anyone any ideas? Preferably in Louth or Dublin and easy to reach with big rooms? (I don't want much do I?)

Alternatively, does anyone know of any decent interiors you could photograph someone in, in Louth/Dublin City?


Just thought I'd ask

pete4130

To be honest, why hotels? They are very boring places to be, regardless of how much the room price is. I've shot bands in penthouse suites where Britney Spears (big deal a few years ago), J-Lo and the likes that spent €1500 a night in. Very fancy to be in but very very boring images for the outcome. If someone asked me to shoot them in a hotel again I'd be hoping it was a graphic nude shoot to make it interesting in some way, so technical perfection is overwhelmed by artistic creativity.

At the same time its adding a cost to you using the hotel as the photographer, which gets passed on to the client. If you know your lighting, have good lighting and are creative you don't need to use a hotel.

pete4130

pete4130 wrote: »

why hotels?

Because they're (generally) cheap and cheerful interiors, usually clean, offer privacy (can be used without having to worry about security moaning or the general public standing around watching).

As I say at the end of that, I'd be interested to hear of other interiors that I can use, but I'm not aware of any (aside from studios, obviously).

A bit of the stuff I've done in hotel rooms so far has been boudoir-ish and a bit of nude, but in general, as above, I feel they, at a reasonable price, are great interiors to use.


I'm in Drogheda, but know only of one other interior I could use, which is a place called Beaulieu House, but they charge to let you use their interior (which is fair enough, but apparently they're expensive).

Dublin Mark

I know a hotel that offered this service for free - in return they got credits and linked the photographs via their Facebook page. DM me if you want me to pass the hotel name on - you might even work with them already being based in Drogheda

Sent them an email Dublin Mark. Doesn't look like it's going anywhere at all.

(Also not sure why this was moved to The Workshop? Nothing to do with gear or processing at all?)