Enhance Your Rental Bookings for Vacation with Appealing High Quality Pictures

Nov 16, 2012

With the easy availability of detailed statistics on what makes a holiday house popular online, most property owners of vacation rental have realized the importance of posting pictures on their listings and websites, that is why they post so many of them, shot from every possible angle. However, the mistake that many landlords make is ignoring the quality of the pictures.

Some of them try to take photographs with their phone cameras or ordinary digital cameras. Although these devices may work fine for your personal pictures, you need to appear more professional when advertising a vacation home. A professional camera with a high resolution and also a professional photographer is desirable if you want to get an edge over other competing vacation abodes.

Increase Your Vacation Rental Bookings With Appealing High Quality Pictures

1. High Quality Photos Make Your Home Appear More Inviting

A dull picture with inappropriate lighting effects won’t do anything to flatter your house, or its exteriors for that matter. On the other hand, a simple room shot with its best lights on, in its cleanest state, and shot with professional precision can give the effect of something grand.

Good pictures have the ability to portray things in their aesthetically enhanced forms; utilize this trait to give the impression of a remarkable house to your guests. Making your house look like a million dollar will even allow you some freedom to demand relatively higher rents.

2. You Can Highlight the Positive Details of Your Rental and Show Them in Pictures

Some pictures take a panoramic view of a place but still manage to drive the viewers’ attention to a particular thing that the photographer has tried to focus on – such is the magic of good photography. You first have to judge what things can make your rental the most appealing place in town – whether it is the indoor facilities you provide, a sensuous swimming pool in the house, excellent exteriors, some nearby attraction, or scenic views from the windows.

Then ask a photographer to shoot pictures keeping in mind the same. A photographer who knows his/her job well will be able to achieve the effects you have visualized.

At the same time you also need to make sure that you picture the place at its best. If a high quality picture can enhance beauty, it can also aggravate a blemish. So, do clean and polish the place to its best state before the shoot. Captivate exteriors when they are most lively – in terms of people and also in terms of natural beauty.

3. Many People Would Access Your Listings from Their Phones

When your website is accessed through phones or other devices with small screen sizes, high resolution pictures work best. People can magnify and see whatever interests them in the photograph. Make things easy for your prospective clients by posting high quality pictures that are easy to view from phone and equally easy to zoom in and out.

Great looking pictures are able to grasp the much needed attention of online viewers who are bombarded with distractive options from everywhere. So don’t try to save time or money when it comes to property photographs; they are a major part of the investment you make for getting more business and generate revenue from your vacation home. And quality of pictures is as important as putting up a large quantity of them, if not more.