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Planning a corporate video production
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Restaurant photography: preparing the shoot
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Employee portraits: planning and preparation
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Stock Images or Your Own Company Photos?
Food photography
Restaurant photography: preparing the shoot
Shot list, timing with the kitchen and a checklist for the day: how a restaurant prepares its photographs.
26 Aug 2026·9 min readRead
Business photography
Employee portraits: planning and preparation
Style, clothing, backdrop and schedule: how a portrait series turns out consistent without making everybody look the same.
26 Aug 2026·9 min readRead
Business photography
Stock Images or Your Own Company Photos?
When stock photos are enough, and why your own company photographs read as more credible on a website, in recruiting and with clients.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
Business photography
Content Production for Companies in One Day
Business photography
Which Photos Does a Company Website Need?
Business photography
Photographing a Company Anniversary
Business photography
Photographing a Store Opening
Business photography
Content Production for Companies in One Day
How to plan one production day so it covers photos and video for the website, LinkedIn, the press and months of social media.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
Business photography
Which Photos Does a Company Website Need?
The picture types that matter for the home page, services, team, recruiting and contact – a checklist for a website relaunch.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
Business photography
Photographing a Company Anniversary
The photographs and film scenes a company anniversary needs – from the history and the guests to the communication that follows.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
Business photography
Photographing a Store Opening
The subjects a store opening needs – from architecture and products to guests, press pictures and social media.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
Business photography
Photographing an Award Ceremony
Business photography
Trade Fair Photography for Companies
Business photography
When Does an Event Need a Second Photographer?
Business photography
Same-Day Event Photos for Press and Social Media
Business photography
Photographing an Award Ceremony
What an organizer needs from an award ceremony – from the stage and the winners to sponsors, audience and press pictures.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
Business photography
Trade Fair Photography for Companies
Stand, team, conversations and products: how to build one set of pictures for press, sales, the website and the next fair.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
When Does an Event Need a Second Photographer?
Parallel sessions, a large venue or stills and film at once: when an extra camera position is worth it at an event.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Same-Day Event Photos for Press and Social Media
How an organizer gets a professional selection of pictures the same day – with clear priorities and a prepared workflow.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
How Many Photos Does a Company Need?
Business photography
Hotel photography: how to prepare your hotel for the shoot
Business photography
What Happens After a Photo Shoot?
Business photography
Photos for Web, Print and Social Media
Business photography
How Many Photos Does a Company Need?
A planning guide for website, team, press and social media – why the number of pictures depends on what they are for.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Hotel photography: how to prepare your hotel for the shoot
Rooms, restaurant, meeting spaces and exteriors: what has to be ready before the shoot for the pictures to hold up.
26 Aug 2026·9 min readRead
Business photography
What Happens After a Photo Shoot?
From the first review to the final file: how the editing and handover of a professional photo production works.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Photos for Web, Print and Social Media
Resolution, aspect ratio and cropping: the picture variants a company needs for its website, for print and for social networks.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Consistent Hotel Photography Across Locations
Business photography
Drone Photography for Hotels and Property
Business photography
Employer Branding Without Stock Photos
Business photography
Corporate Film With or Without an Interview?
Business photography
Consistent Hotel Photography Across Locations
How a hotel group builds one visual language for its website, the booking portals and its campaigns across very different houses.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Drone Photography for Hotels and Property
Which buildings and sites gain from an aerial view, and when classic exterior photography is the better choice.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Employer Branding Without Stock Photos
How real employees, real workplaces and real situations build a credible set of pictures for recruiting and employer communication.
26 Aug 2026·3 min readRead
Business photography
Corporate Film With or Without an Interview?
Interview, reportage or a purely visual trailer: which structure fits the audience, the message and where the film will be shown.
26 Aug 2026·4 min readRead
- Briefing a Photo or Film Production
- Photographing a Private View
- Photography for Annual Reports
- When Should a Company Update Its Photos?
- Frankfurt am Main through my camera
- An evening of photography at the Frankfurter Westhafen
- The Frankfurt skyline at blue hour
- Dining and architecture in Frankfurt’s new old town
- One day: the Zeil, the Westhafen and the Henninger Tower
- Photographing above the rooftops of Frankfurt
- Frankfurt at night – bars, events and urban spaces
- From the airport to the city center – productions in Frankfurt
- The Rheingau through my camera
- Rüdesheim between vineyards, hotels and restaurants
- Between jewelry and stage light – my productions in the luxury segment
- From an empty room to a finished picture
- Why I often photograph restaurants before they open
- The twenty minutes of the blue hour
- One subject, three formats: website, social media and campaign
- What sits behind an international event production
- Photography in difficult light
- When architecture becomes part of the brand story
- From the first frame to the finished event trailer
- Why a group photo has to be planned before the day
- Bucherer Fine Jewellery: Event, Product and Film
- Bentley: Airport, Race Track and Alps
- Honda: Contest, Award Show and Leadership Meeting
- ePowerFun: Product Frames and E-Scooter Campaign
- Juwelier VOGL: Store Opening and 100 Years
- La Biosthétique: Trainer Experience in Paris
- BBBank: Recruiting Films Rooted in a Place
- Hörbiger TOP100 Meeting in Frankfurt
- Meliá Frankfurt City: Opening Teaser
- Radisson Blu Stuttgart: Hotel Photography
- Hilton at IMEX Frankfurt
- Hella at Automechanika Frankfurt
- Capco: Corporate Challenge and Christmas Event
- Premier Inn: A Hotel Opening as Reportage
- Twelve Years as a Photographer and Filmmaker
- How My Visual Language Has Changed
- The Projects That Shaped My Work
- Why I Combine Photography and Film
- What Large Brand Productions Taught Me
- My Favorite Photographs from Frankfurt
- Photographs With Only a Few Minutes
- Places I Would Return to for a Production
- What My Portfolio Does Not Show
- A Year in Pictures
- Luxury in Motion: Bentley, Jewelry and Special Places
- The People Behind International Brands
- Corporate Events in Frankfurt in Pictures
- Hotels Just Before Opening Day
- Working Worlds: Conferences, Contests and Corporate Events
- Dining by the Water: Frankfurt to the Rheingau
- Rooms With a View: Hotels and Restaurants Above the City
- Brands in Public Space
- From the Product Shot to a Lifestyle Campaign
- Neon, Stage Lighting and Architecture at Night
- Franziska in the Henninger Turm: a bar above Frankfurt
- Kaffeehaus Goldene Waage: color, history and patisserie
- Druckwasserwerk Frankfurt: dining in an industrial hall
- Frankfurter Botschaft: a restaurant right on the water
- Chinaski Frankfurt: from daylight café to bar at night
- Weidenhof Frankfurt: restaurant and terrace on the Zeil
- Harvey’s Frankfurt: breakfast in a room with character
- Amoroso by the Alte Oper: a restaurant in evening light
- Zeil Kitchen Frankfurt: vegan food without the austerity look
- Soulmate Café Frankfurt: a portrait in three details
- Cucina Mediterraneo in Frankfurt: Italian cooking in pictures
- Drei Streifen in Frankfurt: food photography without a set
- Flamingo Restaurant: interiors in pink, palm and neon
- La Argentina Frankfurt: a steakhouse in evening light
- Mojo Bar Offenbach: neon, cocktails and a room of its own
- Das Rebenhaus in Rüdesheim: dining above the Rhine valley
- Marie Schlosscafé Philippsruhe: a café in a baroque hall
- A summer evening at the Lorsbacher Thal, on film
- Kräuterwirte in the Rheingau: regional cooking in one language
- Photo holidays with children – traveling without the stress
- Portrait photography basics every photographer should know
- Review – Kivotos Santorini
- 10 tips for photographing a business conference
- Property photography made easy
- How travel bloggers make money
- Better sound recordings on a smartphone
- The best places to travel alone
- Finding good, cheap flights
- The best places to travel in December
- The 10 best family destinations
- Traveling cheaply – but how?
- The commercial photo shoot from start to finish
- Food photography tips for beginners
- Seven ways to upload and share iPhone videos
- Corporate event shooting tips
- Photographing animals in the wild
- Traveling to London alone
- Staging interior spaces
- 10 tips for looking good in business portraits
- How to photograph your dog
- The 8 best things to do in Santorini
- Tips for shooting smartphone travel videos
- Affordable travel destinations
- Why wedding photography should be a priority
- 10 things to tell your wedding photographer