Freigut — Event photography
Party and event photography at the Freigut on the Main. Event photography: Freigut Frankfurt. Freigut in Frankfurt, a ship moored on the Main right beside the…
Freigut in Frankfurt, a ship moored on the Main right beside the Eiserner Steg. White furniture on the timber deck under the awning, blue-and-white towels reading “Frankfurt” over the backs of the chairs, a wooden coaster with an anchor on the table. The skyline stands in haze behind the bridge, and in the evening the whole vessel lies lit between the bank and the river.
A venue whose selling point is the view has to be photographed twice: from inside looking out, and from outside looking at the whole thing. The deck frame shows what a guest sees — tables, people, the bridge overhead. The frame from the bank at blue hour shows what the place is: a lit ship in front of the Eiserner Steg and the skyline. The second is the one an operator ends up using as a cover picture, and it only exists if you walk back ashore after the job and wait.
On a deck at sunset there is no good exposure, only a decision. The water behind the guests is two to three stops brighter than their faces. Expose for the river and everyone sits there as a silhouette; expose for the faces and the water goes bright. At an event the choice always falls on the faces — people are the subject, the river is the reason they are sitting there.
The rest is waiting. Nothing is posed at an afterwork: you stand at a table until the laugh arrives and keep the two frames in which it happens. None of the five before them are bad — they just show people who are being photographed.
The small things get collected anyway. The towel with the lettering, the anchor on the coaster, the awning struts against the sky: they say in one frame where you are, and they work later as the linking pictures in any set.
- Location
- Freigut Frankfurt
