Photography
Photographed at the hour the light is right.
Your photographs are the first thing a guest judges, and usually the only thing.
Rooms with verified professional photos were booked 9% more often in a Carnegie Mellon study (opens in a new tab) of Airbnb listings.
Before the day
A call to walk through the property with you: which rooms matter, what the guests come for, where the light falls. We write the shot list, and if aerials are wanted we check the site is one we are allowed to fly over.
The hour after sunrise
The first light window. Exteriors with long, soft light, the garden and the water before anyone is up, and the aerial approach while the air is still.
The middle of the day
Interiors, when the light through the windows is even: the rooms, the bathrooms, the details a guest asks about. Never the outside, which is the worst light of the day.
The hour before sunset
The second window, on a Villa Day. The terrace, the pool with its lights on, the view the guest is booking for, and the dusk frame that usually becomes the first photograph on the site.
After the day
Every frame edited by hand, then delivered at full size and at web sizes, in your name. The ones that go on the site were composed for its layout before we arrived.
A Half Day, or the whole of it.
Half Day
One light window and twenty finished photographs of your rooms and spaces.
- Light windows
- one
- Finished photographs
- 20
- Aerial frames
- None
- Vertical cuts
- None
Villa Day
Morning and golden-hour light in one day: thirty-five photographs, eight aerial frames and three vertical cuts.
- Light windows
- two
- Finished photographs
- 35
- Aerial frames
- 8
- Vertical cuts
- 3
Aerials are subject to site permission: some places near airports, military sites and heritage sites cannot be flown over, and we tell you before the day, not on it. Food, staff portraits and a return visit when a new room opens can be added.
The travel is ours. So is the weather.
We are in Colombo and we come to you, anywhere on the island, at our cost. If the weather is wrong on the day, we come back, and the second visit is not on your invoice.
Photographs taken at noon on a phone are why most properties look like listings. The hour is the difference, and the hour is what we are paid to wait for.
The photographs go onto your booking page, your website and your listings on Booking.com and Airbnb, so a guest sees the same property wherever they find it.
A private consultation
Tell us about your property.
Send us your Booking.com or Airbnb link and a line about how the property runs today. We reply the same day, and we will tell you plainly whether Northlight is right for it.
We answer Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm, the same day. Engagements begin from LKR 100,000.