A Clinical Eye for Detail

This waiting room looks like it’s ready for new clients, but you’d never guess that we had to simulate the illumination of the back wall’s wooden lighting fixtures!

Healthcare spaces bring many unique challenges to photograph. Access is often limited to a very small window of time: overlap between construction and room usage often means that we photograph unfinished spaces, and treatment rooms have to be empty to protect patients’ privacy.

We wouldn’t be able to photograph this room if a patient was using the bed.

Uninstalled lighting fixtures can be simulated to completion in post-production, and displays can always be mocked up—both to improve visual appearance and to protect sensitive patient information.

A happy giraffe plush and colorful wall art help brighten up this birthing suite.

How, then, do we show a space as it will ultimately be used? Benson Photo has plenty of tricks up our sleeve to achieve this goal from start to finish. Even if a particular space isn’t yet ready to receive patients, props and staging can make a treatment room appear warmer and more welcoming.

When photographing spaces that normally see a lot of foot traffic, like this hallway, I have to make the most of a brief window of inactivity.

As impressive as MRI machines are, we prefer to photograph them when their powerful magnets aren’t currently being used!