Tanika Blair 6/20/26 Tanika Blair 6/20/26

Melbourne Hotel Photography for The Sebel Docklands

It was a pleasure to travel to Melbourne to photograph The Sebel, one of a number of hotel projects I've completed for Accor Hotels. Assisted by Kelly, we spent two full days capturing the property, including six guest rooms, the reception, library, conference facilities, gym, pool area and exterior imagery.

As with all of my hospitality projects, we incorporated lifestyle styling throughout the shoot to create imagery that felt warm, inviting and reflective of the guest experience. With a large shot list and multiple spaces to photograph, careful planning and teamwork were key to ensuring every area was captured at its best. Being trusted to travel interstate for projects like this is always a highlight of my work, and I loved creating a collection of imagery that showcases everything The Sebel Melbourne has to offer.

Tanika Blair 6/2/26 Tanika Blair 6/2/26

Gold Coast Interior Photography for The Good Tradie and Form + Fellow

It was a pleasure to photograph this beautifully renovated Gold Coast apartment for The Good Tradie and Form + Fellow. The project showcased a thoughtful balance of functionality, craftsmanship and timeless interior design, with every detail carefully considered throughout the renovation.

My focus during the shoot was to capture both the overall transformation and the finer design details that made the apartment feel warm, refined and highly liveable. Using natural light and a combination of wide interior images and editorial-style detail shots, I created a collection of photographs that highlighted the collaboration between builder and designer, while telling the story of the finished space as a whole.

Tanika Blair 6/2/26 Tanika Blair 6/2/26

Interior Photography for Gold Coast Renovation Company, 4D Renovations of their Del Mar project

4D Renovations are one of my oldest clients, and seeing this project was incredible to see how far they have come. From doing tiny little bathroom renovations, to these huge whole home renovations I'm so proud to be apart of their big beautiful business journey. This project we are excited to share will be getting published with on of Australia’s leading interior design magazines. We can’t wait to see it in print. (and yes this is something I offer, and always hope I can do for my clients, proud to say I made this one happen).

Tanika Blair 6/1/26 Tanika Blair 6/1/26

Why Professional Airbnb Photography Matters

When potential guests are browsing Airbnb, the very first thing they notice is your photography. Before they read your description, check your amenities, or compare prices, they're making a judgement based on your images.

In many cases, your photographs are the deciding factor between a guest clicking on your listing or scrolling past it.

Recognising the impact of imagery, Airbnb conducted extensive research into why some listings consistently outperformed others. What they discovered was simple: photography plays a huge role in booking decisions.

Properties with strong, professional imagery attracted significantly more attention and converted browsers into guests far more effectively than listings with poor-quality photos. In fact, Airbnb's early testing showed that bookings could increase by two to three times when professional photography was used.

Further internal studies found that listings featuring professional-level photography earned up to 40% more revenue than those without. The reason is straightforward—great photography helps your property stand out, creates a positive first impression, and builds trust with potential guests.

Professional photography also helps set accurate expectations. Keeping your listing images current and representative of the space ensures guests know exactly what to expect when they arrive, leading to better guest experiences, stronger reviews, and higher ratings.

In today's competitive short-term rental market, professional photography isn't simply an added extra—it's one of the most effective marketing tools available to Airbnb hosts.

The next time you're searching for accommodation online, ask yourself: what makes you choose one Airbnb over another? More often than not, it starts with the photos.

Tanika Blair 5/29/26 Tanika Blair 5/29/26

Brisbane Product Photography for The Modern Furniture

One of my favourite projects to work on is creating lifestyle product imagery for The Modern Furniture Store. For this Brisbane campaign, we hired a beautiful home through Pure Locations and spent the day transforming each space into a carefully curated setting that showcased the furniture in a natural, lived-in way.

One of my favourite projects to work on is creating lifestyle product imagery for The Modern Furniture Store. For this Winter campaign, we hired a beautiful home through Pure Locations and spent the day transforming each space into a carefully curated setting that showcased the furniture in a natural, lived-in way.

I was fortunate to have Mathilde on the shoot, assisting throughout the day while also capturing videography content alongside the photography. These larger campaigns are always a true team effort, and I love the creative process of building a room from scratch and bringing a concept to life.

It's always a pleasure working with Sophie, The Modern Furniture Store's Marketing Director, whose vision and collaboration make every shoot enjoyable and seamless. The homeowners were also incredibly welcoming, allowing us to make full use of their beautiful property, and I hope to work with them again on future projects. The result was a collection of warm, lifestyle-focused imagery designed to showcase the furniture in a way that feels authentic, aspirational and inspiring.

Tanika Blair 5/26/26 Tanika Blair 5/26/26

Brisbane Interior Photography for McCormack of their Fortitude Valley office space

I recently photographed the Brisbane office of McCormack Builders, creating a collection of imagery designed to showcase both the workplace environment and the company's professional brand. The project focused on capturing the thoughtful design of the office space, from the overall layout and architectural features through to the details that contribute to the day-to-day experience of the team.

Using a combination of natural light and carefully considered compositions, I photographed the space in a way that felt welcoming, professional and authentic to the McCormack Builders brand. Workplace photography like this is an important tool for businesses looking to strengthen their online presence, attract future employees and showcase the culture and environment they've worked hard to create.

Tanika Blair 5/13/26 Tanika Blair 5/13/26

Brisbane Store Photography for Status Anxiety

Photographing the Status Anxiety store in Brisbane was a fantastic opportunity to capture a retail space that perfectly reflects the brand's clean, considered and minimalist aesthetic. My focus was on showcasing the beautiful store design, visual merchandising and customer experience, while highlighting the premium materials and thoughtful details that make the space feel uniquely Status Anxiety.

The result was a gallery that not only documented the store fit-out, but also captured the atmosphere and personality of the brand itself.

$Byron Bay Architectural Photography for Weather Tex$

Tanika Blair 5/9/26 Tanika Blair 5/9/26

Byron Bay Architectural Photography for Weather Tex

This Byron Bay project for Weathertex focused on showcasing the exterior architecture and cladding details of a beautifully designed home. With the home's striking facade and thoughtful material selections taking centre stage, my goal was to create a collection of imagery that highlighted both the Weathertex products and the overall architectural design.

Carefully planned around the natural light, the shoot captured the texture, colour and craftsmanship of the exterior finishes from a range of perspectives. Projects like this are always rewarding, as they combine architecture, building materials and design, resulting in imagery that can be used across marketing campaigns, websites, publications and product promotions.

Tanika Blair 5/5/26 Tanika Blair 5/5/26

Brisbane Hotel Photography for Mercure Spring Hill

Mercure Spring Hill was a wonderful project to photograph, with a focus on creating warm, welcoming imagery that reflected the guest experience and showcased the hotel's recent updates. Together with my assistant, Kelly, we styled each space with a lifestyle aesthetic and carefully planned the shoot around the beautiful morning light, which helped bring warmth and depth to the interiors.

One of the guest rooms didn't receive enough natural light to achieve the look we were after, so we introduced professional lighting to complement the existing light and maintain consistency throughout the image collection. The result was a gallery of bright, inviting photographs that captured both the design and atmosphere of the hotel while remaining true to the Mercure brand.

Tanika Blair 5/4/26 Tanika Blair 5/4/26

6 Reasons Why Interior Designers Should Invest in Professional Photography

As an interior designer, you've invested countless hours developing concepts, sourcing products, coordinating trades, managing budgets, and refining every detail of a project. Once the project is complete, professional photography is what preserves that work and allows it to continue generating value long after you've handed the keys back to your client.

Here are six reasons why professional interiors photography is one of the smartest investments you can make for your business.

Design Scout Interiors - A Coolangatta Project

Here are six reasons why professional interiors photography is one of the smartest investments you can make for your business.

1. Professional Photography Encourages Supplier Sharing

One of the biggest benefits of professional project photography is that it creates valuable content for everyone involved in the project.

Furniture suppliers, lighting companies, builders, joiners, stylists, artists, and product manufacturers are always looking for high-quality imagery to share across their websites and social media platforms. When your project is professionally photographed, suppliers are far more likely to repost and share the images, exposing your work to a wider audience and generating free brand awareness.

Every time your project is shared, your business reaches potential new clients and industry connections.

2. It Gives You a Competitive Edge

In a highly visual industry, first impressions matter.

Professional photography instantly elevates the perceived quality of your work and helps position your business as a premium service provider. Beautiful imagery communicates attention to detail, professionalism, and expertise before a potential client has even spoken to you.

When prospective clients are comparing designers online, strong photography can often be the difference between making an enquiry and moving on to the next website.

3. Consistent Photography Helps Build a Recognisable Brand

Choosing a photographer whose style aligns with your work and continuing that relationship over time creates consistency across your portfolio.

When all of your projects are photographed with a similar approach to composition, lighting, editing, and storytelling, your body of work becomes instantly recognisable. This consistency strengthens your brand identity and creates a polished, professional presence across your website, social media, awards submissions, and marketing materials.

The strongest design brands are often built on consistency, and photography plays a significant role in achieving that.

4. It's a Long-Term Investment in Your Business

Professional photography is not simply a cost—it's a long-term marketing asset.

If photographing every project isn't possible within your budget, focus on capturing your strongest and most portfolio-worthy projects. A small collection of exceptional projects photographed professionally will often do more for your business than a large collection of average images.

The right photographs can be used for years across websites, social media, publications, award submissions, advertising campaigns, and printed marketing materials.

5. Expert Post-Production Makes All the Difference

Capturing the photograph is only one part of the process.

Professional interiors photographers spend significant time in post-production carefully blending exposures, correcting colour, balancing lighting, refining details, and ensuring every image accurately represents the design. Interior spaces often contain challenging lighting conditions that require multiple exposures to be merged together to achieve a natural and polished final result.

Professional editing ensures your projects look their absolute best while still remaining true to the space you created.

6. You Get What You Pay For

Just as clients invest in an interior designer for their expertise, experience, and creative vision, the same principle applies when choosing a photographer.

A photographer who specialises in interiors understands composition, architectural lines, lighting, styling, and the nuances that make a space photograph beautifully. While it may be tempting to choose a cheaper option, investing in a specialist often delivers significantly better results and a stronger return over time.

Professional photography helps build trust, enhances your online presence, strengthens your brand, and creates a lasting impression on future clients.

Your portfolio is often the first thing potential clients see. Make sure it represents your work at the level it deserves.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Brisbane Hotel Interior Photography for Mercure Hotels - Spring Hill

Our second shoot for the Brisbane, Spring Hill - Mercure Hotel. This time photographing their newly refurbished rooms, capturing 2 of these incredibly renovated hotel rooms. We were pleased to be able to also lifestyle style these spaces for the shoot. Always an added bit of fun to get to ‘tell the story’ for the shoot.

Our first shoot for this hotel was of their reception/foyer, exterior, pool and conference rooms, you can see this here.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Brisbane Interior Photography for Gray Puksand of Auto + General

Always a joy to shoot for commercial interior design firm, Gray Puskand. This time in Brisbane for their Auto + General project.

Always a joy to shoot for Gray Puskand, this time in Brisbane for their Auto + General project.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Sydney Store Photography for The Modern furniture store

I’ve been flown around Australia to photograph all 5 of The Modern furniture stores, and such a pleasure to do this for this beautiful company.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Gold Coast Interior Photography for Mint Designer Kitchens

This beautiful home in Tallai on the Gold Coast was a joy to photograph, with such stunning finishes.

This beautiful home in Tallai on the Gold Coast was a joy to capture, with such stunning finishes.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Byron Bay Store Photography for Trust Projects of Butterboy

What a delicious brick and mortar to be asked to photograph in Byron Bay. I may have walked away with a tin of cookie, because how is one suppose to choose.

I usually wouldn’t shoot an exterior so late in the morning, but for this one, it really worked well for a 10.30am start. Sometimes that closer to mid day direct sunlight, really works in your favour. (sometimes … honestly very rarely, but it did work this time)

What a delicious brick and mortar to be asked to photograph in Byron Bay. I may have walked away with a tin of cookie, because how is one suppose to choose.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Gold Coast Lifestyle Photography for Kirra Point Holiday Apartments

A pleasure to be asked to stay at Kirra Point Holiday Apartments, and capture my young family enjoying these beautiful apartments, and facilities. My favourite place in the world is Kirra Beach, my local, where I’ve grown up, all my best memories at this beach.

The kids did so great with their modelling once again. The combo of directing your own kids, rather then children you don’t know, I find works really well, or my kids are just quite experienced with this? either way I’ll take on more of these shoots any day.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Melbourne Store Photography for The Modern furniture store

A trip in January 2026, had me flying to Melbourne and Sydney for The Modern furniture store. A first worked for The Modern to photograph their Brisbane stores, and since then I have now photographed every store they have around Australia, proud to say they preferred my photography style and have me go photograph every store, instead of organising different photographers for every store location. Melbourne we were of course meet with a morning of cloud cover, but I’m really happy with the end results of these photos despite the challenges.

Tanika Blair 4/11/26 Tanika Blair 4/11/26

Gold Coast Interior Photography for BSPN of CSi Southport

What a fun shoot! … the client was trying to organise models for this shoot with in their team, and it wasn’t going to work out, so I offered to bring my own children for the shoot, and they did incredible! … it ended up being a 5 hour shoot, and they were still taking direction, and getting each shot right until the very end, I was extremely proud.

And what a fantastic space to work on! This is my second shoot for BSPN and I was thrilled to be apart of it.

Tanika Blair 4/8/26 Tanika Blair 4/8/26

Branding Photography for Gold Coast Airport Motel

I recently photographed Gold Coast Motel, creating a collection of lifestyle-focused imagery designed to showcase the property's relaxed atmosphere and guest experience. Working alongside my assistant during the four-hour shoot, we carefully styled each space and utilised the beautiful natural light throughout the day to create warm, inviting photographs.

The team at Gold Coast Motel were fantastic to work with—clear in their vision and priorities, while also trusting me to creatively direct the shoot after an initial walkthrough of the property. One interesting challenge was that the new motel signage had not yet been installed, so I incorporated it into the final images during post-production to ensure the finished gallery accurately reflected the completed project.

Tanika Blair 4/6/26 Tanika Blair 4/6/26

8 tips for prepping a property for a professional photo shoot.

A great photoshoot starts long before the photographer arrives.

While an experienced photographer can work wonders on the day, the best results are always achieved when the property is properly prepared beforehand. The more time spent styling, cleaning, and preparing ahead of the shoot, the more time we can spend focusing on creating beautiful imagery.

Here are our top tips for preparing your property before photography day.

Want to Know the Secret to a Smooth and Successful Photoshoot?

A great photoshoot starts long before the photographer arrives.

Here are our top tips for preparing your property before photography day.

Give the Property a Thorough Clean

Think of the preparation as similar to a bond clean.

Pay special attention to windows, mirrors, shower screens, pool fences, and any other glass surfaces. These areas can quickly show fingerprints, dust, water spots, and streaks, all of which become very noticeable in high-resolution photography.

A spotless property instantly elevates the final images.

2. Make Sure the Garden is Looking Its Best

First impressions matter, and exterior photographs are often some of the most important images from a shoot.

Mow the lawn, trim hedges, tidy garden beds, remove weeds, and make sure outdoor furniture is clean and ready to be photographed. A well-maintained garden helps frame the home beautifully and creates a welcoming feel.

3. Clear Leaves and Debris

Take the time to sweep paths, decks, patios, driveways, balconies, and pool surrounds.

Small details such as leaves, sticks, or garden debris can become surprisingly noticeable in photographs and often require additional editing later.

4. Prepare Any Special Features

If you'd like features such as a fireplace, outdoor fire pit, candles, or feature lighting included in the photography, make sure everything is ready to go before the shoot begins.

Having firewood, matches, lighters, candles, batteries, or remote controls easily accessible allows us to quickly incorporate these elements when the timing and lighting are right.

5. Style the Bedrooms in Advance

Freshly laundered and ironed bedding can make a huge difference to the finished photographs.

Before the shoot, think about the overall look you'd like to achieve. Do you prefer a perfectly styled and polished bed, or something that feels softer and more lived-in? Having these decisions made ahead of time helps the day run much more efficiently.

6. Be Flexible with the Weather

Natural light plays a significant role in architecture and interiors photography.

We closely monitor weather conditions in the lead-up to every shoot and will always advise if conditions aren't ideal. Sometimes postponing by a day or two can make a dramatic difference to the final images.

Flexibility with scheduling often results in significantly better photography.

7. Communicate Your Must-Have Shots

Before every shoot, I create a detailed shot list and plan the day around the property's layout, lighting conditions, and key features.

However, if there are specific spaces, design details, products, or compositions you'd particularly like captured, it's important to communicate this before the shoot day.

Whether it's a written list, a Pinterest board, screenshots, or a folder of iPhone photos, sharing your vision helps ensure we're all working towards the same outcome.

8. Preparation Creates Better Results

Of course, my assistant and I are more than happy to help with many of these tasks during the shoot. However, cleaning windows, sweeping leaves, ironing bedding, gathering styling items, and preparing spaces can be surprisingly time-consuming.

When these tasks are completed before we arrive, it allows us to dedicate our time and energy to what we do best—creating beautiful photographs that showcase your property at its absolute best.

The more prepared the property is, the more images we can capture, and the better the final gallery will be.