Which rooms get photographed?

Rooms and suites, lounge, bar and restaurant, spa and wellness — the same areas the gallery on this page sorts by. You set the number of rooms and the pictures wanted per room on the inquiry.

How do windows and bright areas look in the pictures?

The way the eye sees them. High dynamic range imaging does that: five frames become one picture, so windows and brightly lit areas do not burn out. HDR is selectable as an extra on the inquiry.

Do you photograph my team as well?

Yes. Pictures of staff at work take the uncertainty out of an arrival, because the guest already knows the face of the person they will be speaking to.

Is there moving footage of the rooms?

Yes, as a location trailer. It gives guests an impression of the rooms in advance — and if the house has a restaurant, the inquiry asks separately whether food pictures should come along.

What may I use the pictures for?

Website, booking portals, print, social media, or resale to third parties. The intended use is a required field on the hotel inquiry, so it is settled before the shoot.

What about the outside of the building?

That is on the exterior page: architecture by day and by night, panoramas, drone shots and — when the weather does not cooperate — replacing the sky in post.

Which properties and which region do you work in?

Most of the work happens in the Rhine-Main region — hotels and properties in Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Darmstadt, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe or Kronberg im Taunus. Beyond that, across Germany and internationally: hotel shoots have led to Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Zurich, Dublin, Santorini and Marbella.

Hotel & Interior Photography
in Frankfurt &
Surroundings

Rooms, suites, restaurants and public areas in Frankfurt and the surroundings need a visual language that carries the feel of a space, its materials and its light — as one consistent set for the website, the booking portals and the press.

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

Why

Why a hotel, a restaurant or a property needs professional interior photography.

A guest books a room they only know from pictures.

Your website, the booking portals, the press and social media show your property long before anyone walks in. Good pictures show there how big a room really is, what light it has and what the materials feel like.

A consistent set also strengthens the whole property: rooms, restaurant, spa and lobby look as if they belong together, because they do.

A hotel in Rüdesheim

A room, the way a guest discovers it

First the room

A room is booked before anyone has stood in it. The first picture has to show how much space and light it has.

Then the bed

Freshly made, warm light above the headboard: this is where a guest decides whether they can picture the evening in this room.

Finally, a detail

A cushion with a rose pattern. I photograph details like this on purpose, because guests remember them.

Work

A selection of the places I have photographed and filmed.

Featured hotels

Little light below, plenty above

A five-star house in a city center has little daylight on the lower floors and a great deal on the upper ones. That means a separate lighting decision for every room category. The set covers rooms, suites and the public areas.

The lobby lounge is the opposite case to a guest room: no daylight at all, but a dozen table lamps. Both have to end up looking like the same house — that is where the work is.

Park Hyatt - Zurich — interior photograph

Guests raising their glasses in a hotel bar

Favorite hotel galleries

My Behance profile

Old town of Lucerne along the river Reuss

Moving pictures convince

Hotel video and location trailer

A film lets guests walk through your rooms before they book. It shows what a photograph cannot: how the spaces connect, how the light changes, what it sounds like. The more of that guests can see in advance, the easier the decision to come.

Services

What can come with the interior pictures: staff portraits, exterior views and more.

HDR

Five exposures in one

A window is many times brighter than the room around it, more than a camera can hold in one exposure. So I take several, from dark to bright, and combine them: the view outside and the interior are both visible, the way the eye sees them when standing in the room.

Staff photography

Faces guests know before they arrive

Pictures of your team at work in your house help win the trust of future guests. Photographs that show a good working atmosphere, and people who are genuine and friendly, set a good expectation for the stay.

With team photos, guests feel connected to your staff sooner, because they already know the faces of the people who will look after them.

01 / Exterior Portfolio

02 / Luxury hotel photographer

More architecture and hotel exteriors in my exterior design portfolio

Exterior design portfolio: architecture and hotel exteriors

Luxury hotel photographer

I photograph hotels: properties in the region and ones I travel to.I have covered everything that belongs to a property: rooms and suites, exteriors, restaurants and kitchens.I was born and raised in Alabama.As a teenager I moved to Frankfurt am Main and studied at the SAE Institute.I prefer to work with the light that is already in the building and add to it only where it falls short.What a hotel needs from its pictures depends on the channel. Website, booking portal and press crop differently, and that decides the framing.

Resorts worldwide

For a house I photograph architecture and exteriors, interiors, the staff at work, and the surroundings that come with the booking. Which of those is needed depends on the channel: a website, a booking portal and the press all crop differently. On larger productions I bring in freelance colleagues; smaller sets I shoot alone. The work happens where the house stands — in the Rhine-Main region as much as on the road.

Hotels that tell stories

I have photographed new houses and long-established ones. The older ones are the harder job: rooms that grew over decades rarely have a consistent lighting plan, but they have material and patina that a new build does not. The two want to be photographed differently.

The location is part of it

Where a house stands is easy to overlook and helps decide the booking. So a hotel set includes a frame that explains the geography — without it, the interiors are handsome rooms somewhere.

Reviews

What clients say, and who is behind the camera.

Cliffside hotels above the caldera at sunset

Hotel Reviews

Review – Kivotos Santorini

During our stay on Santorini, we spent 4 nights at Kivotos Santorini. It was our first time on the island and its dramatic volcanic luxury exceeded every expectation...

Case studies

Whole visual worlds for one brand

All case studies

Patrick Schmetzer

An interior doesn’t reveal itself. Here, creativity is the patience to wait for the hour when light falls through a room rather than against it — and knowing what stays in the frame and what goes. A room isn’t simply recorded; it’s shown.

Born in the US, based in Frankfurt. The camera has been part of my life since I was eighteen and my profession since 2014 — mostly for companies and hotel groups: rooms, suites, lounges, bars, spas and restaurants.

Questions & inquiry

The most common questions, and how your place becomes a shoot.

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Vertical video

Instagram stories for hotels

Short vertical trailers show atmosphere, rooms and the house in the feed — in the format prospective guests are already scrolling.

Hotel and interior photography questions

: Rooms and suites, lounge, bar and restaurant, spa and wellness — the same areas the gallery on this page sorts by. You set the number of rooms and the pictures wanted per room on the inquiry.
: The way the eye sees them. High dynamic range imaging does that: five frames become one picture, so windows and brightly lit areas do not burn out. HDR is selectable as an extra on the inquiry.
: Yes. Pictures of staff at work take the uncertainty out of an arrival, because the guest already knows the face of the person they will be speaking to.
: Yes, as a location trailer. It gives guests an impression of the rooms in advance — and if the house has a restaurant, the inquiry asks separately whether food pictures should come along.
: Website, booking portals, print, social media, or resale to third parties. The intended use is a required field on the hotel inquiry, so it is settled before the shoot.
: That is on the exterior page: architecture by day and by night, panoramas, drone shots and — when the weather does not cooperate — replacing the sky in post.
: Most of the work happens in the Rhine-Main region — hotels and properties in Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Darmstadt, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe or Kronberg im Taunus. Beyond that, across Germany and internationally: hotel shoots have led to Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Zurich, Dublin, Santorini and Marbella.

More questions answered on the FAQ page.

Do you have questions or are you looking for an interior photographer
in the greater Frankfurt am Main region?

Get in touch with me today!
I look forward to getting to know you and your project!

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Name the property and the areas it is about — rooms, lounge, bar, spa or restaurant. Open questions we settle by phone or email, and then you get an offer. How many rooms it covers and what that costs is fixed before I arrive. The inquiry commits you to nothing.

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Photo & video for hotels and restaurants

Planning the shoot, preparing rooms and team, and using the pictures so that they bring in bookings.

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Hotel & Interior Photography
in Frankfurt &
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A guest books a room they only know from pictures.