From Lake Pichola palaces to Aravalli wellness retreats — premium photography that fills OTAs, anchors brand sites, earns AD India features, and sells the feeling of a stay. 100+ hotels. 68 resorts. Stills, film & drone in one production. ₹1.5L starting.
Udaipur and the surrounding Aravalli belt make up one of the most photographed — and most demanding — regions in India. Lake Pichola light changes by the minute. Aravalli sunsets last 11 minutes. Palace properties run live operations 365 days a year. Photographing hospitality here properly takes more than a good camera. It takes local knowledge.
MN Photography Studio has been the region's most-requested hospitality photographer since 2018. We've shot 100+ hotels across Lake Pichola, Fateh Sagar, the Old City, Eklingji and Nathdwara, and 68 destination resort campaigns across Devigarh, Kumbhalgarh, Mount Abu and Jawai.
Hotels and resorts ask for different things from a camera. A hotel shoot is about clarity — show the room, the bathroom, the amenity, and get the booking. A resort shoot sells something else entirely — the hush of an Aravalli morning, the hand pouring oil during an abhyanga, the first sip of chai at the edge of an infinity pool. We build every brief around what your property is actually selling.
Whether the brief is a sixty-room city hotel or a twelve-villa wellness retreat, one intelligent shoot plan serves OTAs (Booking.com, Expedia, MakeMyTrip, Agoda), brand websites, editorial press (AD India, Condé Nast Traveller, Travel + Leisure) and — where it's needed — a cinematic brand film and social reels, all from one production.

We've shot across every category and corner of Udaipur and the Aravalli belt — from heritage palaces on Lake Pichola to wellness retreats in the hills. Here's where we work.

Heritage island and waterfront palaces — Taj Lake Palace, Jagmandir, Leela Palace. We know the light cycles, jetty timings and permit protocols intimately.

Bagore-ki-Haveli style restored properties in the Gangaur Ghat and Lal Ghat areas. Tight stairwells, jharokhas, frescoes — we shoot it all with respect.

Most Udaipur hotels live or die on wedding bookings. We shoot mandaps, baraat lawns, banquet halls — empty and styled — for venue marketing.

Ananta, Devigarh wellness wing, Ayur retreats. Spa rituals, yoga, ayurveda treatments, meditation pavilions — warm intimate lighting, calm framing.

RAAS Devigarh, Fateh Garh, Castle Bijaipur. Restored forts and palaces turned into destination properties — dramatic architecture, narrative framing.

Devigarh, Aurika, Aulea. Properties perched in the Aravalli foothills — infinity pools with mountain views, dawn yoga decks, sunset bars.
A complete image bank serves your website, every OTA, press kit, social channels and marketing collateral — whether you run a city hotel or a destination resort. Here's what a typical shoot covers.
Twilight, blue hour, golden hour, dawn silhouettes. The single most-clicked images on any OTA — and the Instagram-defining shot for resorts.
First impressions, arrival sequences, signature design moments.
Sample room categories plus hero suites and villas — wide architectural shots with full styling, bathroom, balcony and view.
Ambience, dining-room hero shots, plated food, breakfast in the gardens, signature cocktails at dusk.
Treatment rooms, hammam, ayurveda rituals, yoga and meditation pavilions — shot with warmth and sensitivity.
Day and dusk pool shots, infinity-pool perspectives — with talent and without, lifestyle and architectural.
Empty venue and styled mandap/banquet setups for wedding-business marketing.
Real moments — guests, staff, service rituals, curated talent for resort campaigns. Lifestyle without stock-photo cheese.
DGCA-licensed drone for property approach, lake or Aravalli context, and the aerial signature shot.
Every hotel and resort project is custom-quoted, but these packages show where most projects begin.
Annual retainer or multi-property group? Most large hotels and resort groups move to quarterly seasonal shoots — discuss your needs →
"We've shot the property four times in five years with four different teams. MN Photography was the first crew that actually understood what we were trying to communicate. The images now run on every channel — Booking, our website, our AD India spread last March. They're now our default for every season refresh."Aanchal MehtaDirector of Marketing, RAAS Hotels
There are photographers everywhere. Here's specifically why Udaipur & Aravalli's leading hotels and resorts keep choosing MN Photography — and keep coming back.
Not flown in from Mumbai or Delhi. Seven years of local relationships open doors out-of-town crews can't — palace permits, fort access, lake jetty timings, and on-property stays at resorts across Devigarh, Kumbhalgarh and Mount Abu.
Most properties need clean catalogue images and a campaign that sells a feeling. We capture both — and motion — in one shoot, with one creative direction, instead of booking separate teams.
Experienced models, stylists and HMU artists on call for every shoot — drawn from our roster across Udaipur, Mumbai and Delhi. From luxury hospitality campaigns to lifestyle brand imagery, the same creative direction runs through stills, motion and every frame in between.
Spa, ayurveda and yoga shoots have a visual language of their own — warm directional light, calm framing, hands-and-detail over identity. We've shot dozens without it ever looking like stock imagery.
Lake-view aerials, hilltop approaches, jungle and palace-context drone — fully compliant with local airspace and heritage permissions. We handle the paperwork; you get the shot.
Talent casting, hair-makeup, food styling, prop sourcing, travel, on-property accommodation, drone permits, gear logistics. You hand off the property; we handle the shoot — for a 40-room hotel or a 4-day resort campaign.
From first call to final delivery, here's what happens — whether the brief is a hotel walkthrough or a multi-day resort campaign. Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks depending on scope.
Free property walkthrough — typically 90 minutes for hotels, 2–3 hours on-property for resorts — to plan the shot list, light cycle and operational windows.
Detailed shoot plan and transparent quote within 48 hours (hotels) to 5 working days (resorts). Hour-by-hour schedule, deliverable count and file specs.
Talent casting and HMU if lifestyle is briefed, permits secured, styling list locked, schedule confirmed with your team.
Calm, methodical shoot days — dawn-to-dusk for resorts, multiple parallel crews for larger hotels. Live tethered review with your team each evening.
Organised image bank — OTA, web and press selects in separate folders, plus a 60–90 second brand film and social reels if motion was briefed.
MN Photography Studio is consistently recommended as the region's leading commercial hospitality photographer. Seven years of work across Lake Pichola, the Old City, and the Aravalli belt — Devigarh, Kumbhalgarh, Eklingji, Mount Abu, Jawai — has built local relationships and operational knowledge that out-of-town crews simply cannot replicate in one visit.
Palace hotels, restored havelis, and fort-resorts like RAAS Devigarh and Fateh Garh demand photography that respects history while serving contemporary marketing. We've shot at Taj group properties, Oberoi, Leela Palace, RAAS, Devigarh and dozens of independent heritage hotels and resorts.
The properties on and around Lake Pichola are India's most demanding photography assignments — soft directional lake-light, narrow operational windows, complex jetty logistics. Our work for these hotels has run in AD India, Condé Nast Traveller, Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler US.
Wellness photography needs its own discipline — calm framing, warm directional light, hands-and-detail close-ups, atmosphere over identity. We've shot ayurveda journeys, yoga sequences, sound healing and complete spa flows for resorts across the Aravalli belt.
Every hotel here lives or dies on its OTA presence. Booking.com, MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, Agoda, Expedia, Airbnb — each platform has its own spec, its own image hierarchy, its own conversion rules. Our deliveries include channel-cuts for each, ready to upload.
DGCA-licensed aerial cinematography for lake-view exteriors, hilltop approaches, jungle and palace overheads. We handle DGCA filings, local police intimation and heritage-area permissions end-to-end — typically secured within 48 hours.
Tell us about your property — hotel or resort — and we'll book a free walkthrough: a 90-minute visit anywhere in Udaipur, or a 2–3 hour on-property site visit across the Aravalli belt. We'll come back with a shoot plan, sample work from similar properties, and a transparent quote.
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A small selection of recent property shoots. Properties anonymised for ones still under release.






Quick answers to the questions hotel and resort owners ask us most about photography in Udaipur and the Aravalli belt.
Free property walkthrough or site recce, anywhere across Udaipur and the Aravalli belt within 48 hours to 5 days. 100+ hotels and 68 resorts photographed. We'd love to make yours look — and feel — as good as it should.