I photograph for companies, hotels, restaurants and private clients: events, portraits, food, products, interiors and architecture. The work happens in the studio or on location, depending on where the subject is. What you get is not a collection of single frames but a set that holds together — the look is agreed before the shoot and applies to every picture in it.
Trailers, image films, commercials and reportage, from the idea to the edit. A film says in thirty seconds what a page of text cannot. Here it comes from the same hand as the photographs and carries the same visual language — including when both are made on the same day. Sound, sound design and editing are part of it and are not bought in.
Technique, composition and editing, matched to your level and your goals.
When a project needs more than one discipline
Stills and film are rarely needed apart: at an event both are made on the same evening, and the trailer should look like the photographs lying next to it. Because it all comes from one hand, nothing is bought in and nothing has to be matched up afterwards — it is made together from the start. What you need is usually not settled at the outset, which is why a project begins with a conversation rather than with a choice from a list.
Good to know
The questions that come before an inquiry — what something costs, how an offer comes about, when I can be reached, and what applies when a job is outside the Rhine-Main region. Each answer has its own page:
Under the Nexentrium brand, the same company builds software products of its own: platforms for recruiting, agency operations and image production. It isn’t client work and it isn’t on the price list — but it’s part of Multi Media Design Patrick Schmetzer, so it’s listed here for anyone who asks.
Photography means art. It is like a painting whose colors, contours, patterns or faces invite us to look deeper. We make a “picture” of it, whether consciously or unconsciously.