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in Frankfurt &
Surroundings

Food photography in Frankfurt and the surroundings encompasses the artful depiction of individual dishes and drinks, through complete menu spreads and dynamic culinary preparation.

A session starts at 250 euro plus VAT. How pricing works

The chef plates the dish the way a guest gets it. For a photograph it has to be cooked differently.

This is where almost every picture a restaurant takes itself falls down. A dish that is perfect on the table is not yet perfect in front of a camera: it has to be cooked differently, cut differently and built differently to hold up as an image. Then there is the lighting and the angle — two things you see immediately in the finished picture and that nobody plans for in a kitchen.

I do the food styling myself. It is not the part somebody else takes over; it is the part that happens before the first frame. Set design and composition are bookable in the inquiry.

Why your own pictures do not work

Culinary highlights and details

Vegetable pizza with mushrooms, peppers and basil on a wooden board, from above
Food photography, culinary

I was born in Mobile, Alabama, and later moved to Frankfurt am Main. My understanding of food comes from home: my mother knew a great deal about cooking and cooked with seasonal ingredients every day, simply and with a lot of flavor. I still use what I learned from her when I prepare the dishes I photograph.

Patrick Schmetzer Portrait
Patrick Schmetzer
With food, creativity means seeing the shot before the dish lands. A plate only looks the way the kitchen intended for a moment, and if you’re still deciding on the picture by then, you’ve missed it. So the look is set before anything is plated.
Born in the US, based in Frankfurt. I picked up a camera at eighteen and have worked professionally since 2014 — shooting dishes, drinks and products in the studio and just as often on location.

Looking for a professional culinary food photographer in Frankfurt am Main and beyond?

Get in touch with me today!
I look forward to bringing your culinary vision and menu to life!

Food photography questions

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Planning something like this?

Tell me which dishes or drinks are to be photographed, and where — in the studio or at your place. Open points we settle by phone or email, and then you get an offer. Scope and price are fixed before the first plate is dressed. The inquiry commits you to nothing.

A session starts at 250 euro plus VAT. What lies above that is decided by the scope. How pricing works

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