Common questions

Short notice is often fine. Popular summer Saturdays for weddings go early, naturally — but checking a date costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Tell me briefly what it is about — for an event, the date, the place and roughly how the day runs. By form, email, phone or WhatsApp. You get a clear recommendation and an open price, quickly.

It depends on the size of the job. For larger ones — weddings, company films — a deposit holds the date firmly, the rest follows on delivery. Smaller studio sessions are paid after the shoot, by Twint or cash.

In the Basel region and the Laufental, travel is included. Further afield I charge fairly for the actual journey, and it is set out in the quotation beforehand. The calculators show travel as you go: Shooting calculator › · Wedding calculator ›

German, English and French. Shoots run comfortably in all three.

Yes — just tell me early. Illness or bad luck with the weather, we find another date. Appointments missed without word are charged in part or in full.

Yes. I am grateful if they get used before too long.

Open packages from CHF 565 (civil ceremony) to CHF 3,355 (ten hours) — all-in prices including the licence for private use, including VAT, nothing hidden. Details on the wedding page. Straight to the wedding calculator ›

In 10 to 14 working days, fully colour-corrected, not retouched. If it is urgent, faster where I can.

It depends on the hours booked, but it is always a lot. You get every picture that worked. I do not hold any back to sell them later.

No drama: the studio, a good indoor location, or somewhere covered outside. We agree the fallback while planning, not on the day.

Alone, deliberately. One photographer who stays close without being noticed gets the real moments. That is the reportage approach.

Yes — the wedding packages apply to private celebrations in the same way. Same work, same open all-in prices. To the celebration calculator ›

It is my job that you look good. Part of that is photographing with you rather than at you — you are a person, not an object. I talk while I work, and that is where the mood comes from. When people are comfortable, the pictures are good. And then I am comfortable too.

Application photos: around 30 minutes. Starportrait, couple and family sessions: normally 45 to 90 minutes — though we have gone far longer, depending on what you want covered.

Please do — it shows more sides of a person. Different clothes help, so does a different background and different light: each set has its own mood, a small shoot inside the shoot. And bringing a friend can take the edge off. They usually end up assisting.

Yes, that can be arranged. She is paid directly after her work, by Twint or cash.

Application photos in one to two working days, sessions usually in five. If there is a deadline, faster where I can — just say so.

Yes, at any age — from a baby to a horse. With children a parent is always present, and nothing is published without written consent. One thing you will not get from me: angel wings and the like. Sorry.

Clothes you feel good in — and bring more than you think you need. Rule of thumb: a quarter of an hour per set and outfit. So for a 45-minute session, bring at least three.

Application and team photos normally are. Session pictures: light retouching on request at no charge, heavier work on request for a fee.

Yes — you get the pictures digitally and retouched, free to use for applications and your professional profiles. Wider use, advertising or an election campaign for instance, would need a separate agreement.

The idea behind Starportrait is to show people from more than one side: to be properly yourself for once — or somebody else entirely. To get the hobby, the thing you care about, into a picture. Starportrait is not a beauty contest, it is an afternoon out, and that is exactly why the pictures come out well. People have told me a thousand times: you are hunting good photographs together. It is a lot of fun, and it shows.

Yes. Two hours, for example, with an hour each in turn. No surcharge. Only if the files have to be separated and delivered to different addresses is there a small extra charge.

By quotation — hourly, half-day or day rate, depending on the scope. Describe the project and you normally have the quotation within 24 hours. For more complex requests involving third parties, as soon as I can. Company reportage & events: to the calculator ›

All from one person: idea and concept, filming, editing, music and the right formats for the website, LinkedIn, Instagram or a trade fair — no agency in between.

Yes — at your premises or in the studio. One consistent look for the website, print and LinkedIn, organised efficiently even for larger teams.

Use is set out in the quotation — usually a licence for your own company communication (website, social media, print). Wider use, a poster campaign for example, we agree on fairly.

That is exactly when it is. Workshops, laboratories, building sites: that is where the honest, strong pictures come from, the ones that do not look like stock photography.

I am a photographer and a filmmaker, and that is the eye I bring to your website. First I look at it: where visitors drop out, what an applicant sees, what has aged. Out of that comes a concrete proposal — a refresh, not a rebuild. Then it is done selectively: existing pages brought up to date, processes made simpler, individual areas rebuilt. Photography, film and web from one person. Ask for a website check ›

Usually not. The substance is often sound — it is the design and the technology that have stood still, and the way a company presents itself today, an employer included, is not what it was. A refresh brings the site into this decade. What does that look like? You are looking at it: I refreshed this website myself.

As a rule no — the finished picture is the product. Where there is a good reason, we can talk about it.

Post yours: please do, and a credit is always welcome. The other way round, I only publish your pictures with your explicit written consent. On commercial work that is published anyway, I may show the results in my portfolio.

Several years — reorders are possible long afterwards. Recently a family recreated their own portrait from 2001, 24 years on, down to the background.

Copyright stays with the photographer — that is how the law works. You get a clear licence for your use: comprehensive for private use, as set out in the quotation for business use.

Araweg 6, 4222 Zwingen (In den Weiden industrial estate) — 150 m², modern. Parking right outside.

WhatsApp or a call: 079 964 63 65 / 061 761 21 61 — or the form. I come back quickly.

I do not advertise it. But if a good request comes along, we can look at it together.