Why proposal session in Frankfurt
Working as a proposal photographer in Frankfurt is mostly about choosing a place where two people can stop without it seeming odd, and where someone with a long lens thirty to fifty metres away goes unnoticed. The city has more of those than visitors expect. On the Deutschherrnufer everyone pauses in the evening to look at the skyline, and a person with a camera there is as ordinary as a jogger. The Eiserner Steg is almost empty early in the morning, though you will need a believable reason to be there before nine. The Main Tower offers the highest view, but it charges admission and has firm rules on photography. If you are visiting Frankfurt, the right spot depends less on the backdrop than on how naturally you can bring your partner to it.
The Deutschherrnufer is at its best in the hour before sunset, with blue hour following. In June that means meeting at about half past eight in the evening; in December, around half past three in the afternoon, which puts a winter proposal comfortably before dinner. The Eiserner Steg works before nine in the morning, and the Main Tower on a weekday. Book two to three weeks ahead so there is time to agree the place and the signal.
How the session runs
Beforehand we talk through the place, the time and the signal by phone, and you receive a photograph of the exact spot where you should stop. On the day we arrive twenty minutes early, keep our distance on the bank or the bridge and look like anyone else photographing the skyline. When the signal comes, we photograph the proposal from afar. Afterwards we walk over, congratulate you both and take 30 minutes of portraits along the Main. A first set of images reaches you the same evening, in time to call your families, and the full set is 35 edited photographs.
What’s included
- 35 edited photographs
- A briefing on the place, the time and the signal
- The proposal itself from a distance, unnoticed
- Thirty minutes of couple portraits afterwards
- A first set the same evening
