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GUIDES & e-books – free books to download

Four books to download, free and without signing up.

Two for companies, hotels and restaurants planning a shoot or a film, and two for anyone who photographs landscapes themselves. I wrote them from practice, with my own pictures.

Every book is available in English, and three of them in German as well. Pick the edition on each card.

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Cover: Pictures That Get Booked

Pictures That Get Booked

Photo & video for hotels and restaurants

Who it is for: For hoteliers, restaurateurs and whoever does the marketing for a house.

Why guests decide by the pictures, how to plan a shoot and prepare the rooms, the kitchen, the bar and the team for it, and what moving images add: image film, reels, drone. Then how the pictures work on the website, on social media, on booking portals, on Google and in the press. With examples from the Park Hyatt Zurich, the Druckwasserwerk in Frankfurt, Kivotos on Santorini and Hotel Rose in Rüdesheim, and printable checklists.

  • 55 pages
  • PDF
  • 6.5 MB
  • In English
  • free
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Cover: The Corporate Shoot Guide

The Corporate Shoot Guide

Events, employee portraits and image film

Who it is for: For marketing and communications, HR and employer branding, event agencies and management.

From the briefing, with a template to adapt, through events, conferences, trade fairs and concerts to employee portraits and the image film. Then budget, schedule and delivery, usage rights, the right to one’s own image and the GDPR. With examples from productions for Hörbiger, Hella, Hilton, Juwelier VOGL and BBBank, and four printable checklists.

  • 53 pages
  • PDF
  • 5.6 MB
  • In English
  • free
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Cover: From RAW to Fine Art

From RAW to Fine Art

Editing landscape photographs in Lightroom and Photoshop

Who it is for: For keen amateur photographers who have already opened Lightroom.

The sequel to my first landscape book: from RAW and an orderly workflow through the basic development and masks in Lightroom to HDR, panoramas, focus stacking, luminosity masks, dodge & burn and the Orton effect in Photoshop. Then a look of your own with presets and LUTs, three of my pictures step by step, export, fine art printing and paper, and the most common mistakes.

  • 54 pages
  • PDF
  • 5.3 MB
  • In English
  • free
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Cover: Landscape photography tips for explorers

Landscape photography tips for explorers

My first book on landscape photography

Who it is for: For anyone who enjoys landscape photography and is not yet satisfied with their pictures.

Equipment, camera settings, finding and planning a subject, composition, natural light, sharpness and image editing, in eight chapters written from practice. Some fifty of my photographs, each with its settings and location, from the Cliffs of Moher to Dubrovnik.

  • 133 pages
  • PDF
  • 20.5 MB
  • In English
  • free
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If you would rather ask directly

The books answer the questions that come up before almost every production. Whatever is still open for yours is quickest to settle in a conversation.