Ich bin nicht fotogen. Funktioniert das trotzdem?

Ja. Fotogen zu sein ist keine Eigenschaft, sondern eine Frage von Licht und von den ersten zehn Minuten. In denen entsteht noch nichts, was zählt.

Warum stehen die Prices mit ab?

Weil eine Wedding viele Variablen hat: Stundenzahl, Anzahl der Locations, Wege dazwischen, Ende des Abends. Die genannten Zahlen sind Startpreise. Nach einem kurzen Gespräch folgt innerhalb von 24 hours ein verbindliches Angebot mit fester Summe, die unverändert auf der Invoice steht.

Was kostet ein Wedding photographer in Munich?

Bei MUNICHPIXART beginnt die Ceremony kompakt mit vier Stunden ab 990 euros, die Story über acht Stunden ab 1.890 euros und der ganze Tag ab 2.490 euros. Es sind Startpreise, weil eine Wedding viele Variablen hat: Stunden, Wege, zweite Location, Ende des Abends. Eine Zusatzstunde kostet 220 euros. Das verbindliche Angebot kommt innerhalb von 24 hours.

Wie sichert MUNICHPIXART die Frames ab?

MUNICHPIXART fotografiert mit zwei Kameragehäusen, von denen jedes jede Frame gleichzeitig auf zwei Speicherkarten schreibt. Ein Kartenfehler kostet kein Bild, ein Kameraausfall keine Minute. Die Daten liegen noch am selben Abend mehrfach gesichert.

Wedding photographer in MunichThe moment beside the moment.

Q: How long until the finished images?

Bei einer Wedding drei bis vier Wochen, bei Feiern und Portraits rund zwei Wochen. MUNICHPIXART bearbeitet jedes Bild, das technisch sauber und kein Duplikat ist, nicht nur eine Auswahl. Nach einer Wedding sind das schnell über tausend Bilder.

Q: How many images do I get?

All. MUNICHPIXART bearbeitet jedes Bild, das technisch sauber und kein Duplikat ist, statt nur eine Auswahl daraus. Aussortiert wird nur Unscharfes, Blinzler und mehrfach fast Identisches. Beispiel einer Wedding in Kitzbühel: around 2,000 Frames, davon 1,305 edited und geliefert, ohne Aufpreis je Bild.

Q: Are there hidden costs?

Nein. Was im Angebot steht, steht auf der Invoice. Zusätzlich kosten nur ausdrücklich bestellte Services: weitere Stunden, Abzüge oder ein Album. Einzelne Bilder kosten nie extra, weil ohnehin alle bearbeitet werden. Außerhalb Münchens werden 0,50 euros je Kilometer berechnet.

For 25 years I have been photographing weddings, parties and portraits in Munich and across Upper Bavaria. First on film, now digital. When a roll gave you 36 frames, you learned to wait rather than to press.

Enquire about a shoot See the work

Is your date still free?

It is the first thing almost everyone asks. Here you get the answer straight away, without an email and without waiting.

Your preferred date

24 hoursuntil you hear back from me

Every imageedited, not a selection from them

Fixed pricesin the quote and later on the invoice

25 yearsbehind the camera, from film to now

Twenty-five years

From the roll to the file.

frames on a roll of film

Every frame cost money and was final. Learn that way and you stop pressing the shutter — you wait until the moment arrives.

4000

frames on a wedding day

That is how many a digital day produces. You do not get all of them — you get the four hundred that tell you something.

thing has not changed

Look first, then press. The technology has changed completely twice. The attitude behind it has not.

Selected work

Look again at who else is in the frame.

Nearly all of these were taken while somebody else was posing. Click one to see it large.

A wedding in Kitzbühel, in June

One day start to finish.

Anyone can show a best-of. This is one single wedding day in the order it happened, from the empty church window at noon to well past midnight. Twenty-four images, the quiet ones included. Drag the strip sideways.

Twenty-four of 1,305 edited images. Around 2,000 frames were taken that day.

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Nowhere else in Munich

Your guests shoot too.

Hundreds of photographs are taken on your day that you will never see. From the second row, from the far end of the table, at half past one in the morning. Every guest gets a card with a link. Open it, pick the photos, done.

No app, no sign-upThe link opens on a phone and uploads. No account, no download, no excuse.
Everything in one placeYour guests' photos land in the same gallery as mine. You sort through it once, instead of digging through four group chats.
You decide what staysYou see every photo before anyone else does. Whatever you do not like disappears.

The card that sits on every table

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You get your day twice. Once as I saw it. And once as everyone you invited saw it. The table cards with the link come printed, from me.

36 frames per roll. That marks the way you look at things for good.

Chris, MUNICHPIXART, Munich

My name is Chris and I have been photographing for over 25 years. I started on film, with a light meter and one roll for a whole afternoon.

These days a wedding day runs to over four thousand frames. What stayed is the restraint from back then: look first, then press. That is why my series so often hold the guest at the edge, the child in the second row, the embrace nobody planned.

Almost everyone opens with the same sentence: that they cannot stand themselves in photographs. That is rarely down to them. It is usually down to a photographer who gives instructions instead of waiting. Husband, father of a boy, and cursed with a streak of perfectionism.

Christian Heil, photographer at MUNICHPIXART — Christian Heil, behind the camera since 2001

The same day

Briefing

A short conversation about purpose, place and effect. Then a firm quote, not a price range.

The first minutes

Warming up

The first frames do not count. We talk, I set the light, you get used to the camera.

Once everything is edited

Your gallery

Every image in a private online gallery. You mark favourites for the album and for prints — not so that I edit them first.

Wedding: 3 to 4 weeks
Parties and portraits: around 2 weeks

Delivery

Images at web and print resolution, with the usage rights in writing.

What I photograph

Three occasions where a photograph outlasts the day.

I photograph weddings, parties and portraits — in Munich, across Upper Bavaria and wherever you are celebrating. Three occasions, one way of looking, the same way of working: moving with the day rather than arranging it, and delivering every frame edited at the end.

Wedding photography in Munich: the couple during the ceremony

Weddings in Munich and Upper Bavaria

The day belongs to you, not to the camera. I agree the running order beforehand with the planner, the witnesses and whoever is keeping time, so that I am in the right place at the right moment.

ab 990 euros

Event photography in Munich: guests at a party

Events and parties in Munich

Christenings, milestone birthdays, company parties, incentives. From the morning until after the last dance if you want it. We go through the running order beforehand so that nothing is missed.

ab 240 euros per hour

Portrait and city tour in Munich

A city walk of a different kind. Two hours through Munich, past the well-known corners and the quieter ones, photographing at every stop.

ab 390 euros

Before you ask

What happens if something goes wrong?

Your day happens once. So these are the questions you ought to be asking me — and here are the answers, before you have to.

Why it takes three to four weeks

An example from Kitzbühel: around 2,000 frames in one day, of which 1,305 were edited and delivered. I go through every image on its own instead of pushing a stack through a preset. That takes time, and it is the reason the quiet photographs make it into the set as well.

Two cameras, four cards

I shoot with two bodies, and each one writes every frame to two memory cards at the same time. A card failure costs you not a single image, a camera failure not a single minute.

Backed up three times

The same evening your files sit on two separate drives and on a server here as well. Only then does a card get wiped.

Rain is already planned for

Every outdoor location has a dry alternative that we agree on in advance. No searching on the day itself.

Everything in writing

Scope, hours, number of images, delivery time and usage rights are in the contract. Whatever is not in there does not cost anything either.

No back and forth

Prices that hold before we have even spoken.

A wedding photographer in Munich costs from 990 euros at MUNICHPIXART for four hours, from 1,890 euros for eight hours and from 2,490 euros for the whole day. A portrait or a city tour starts at 390 euros, a party at 240 euros an hour. Every price includes all the edited photographs.

Wedding stories in Munich

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euros, eight hours, the most-booked scope

From getting ready to the first dance
Every image of the day, edited
No surcharge per image
Four hours from 990, a whole day from 2,490

Portrait and city tour

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euros, two hours in Munich

Several places in one afternoon
Every image edited, not a set of ten
Extended to three hours from 490
Each additional person 45

Parties and events

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euros per hour, from three hours

Christenings, milestone birthdays, company parties
Half a day, five hours, from 1,090
Every image edited, in around two weeks
Travel outside Munich 0.50 per kilometre

Starting prices. A wedding has a lot of variables: hours, distances, a second location, how late the evening runs. That is why everything here says „from“. Whatever the firm quote says is what the invoice says later, unchanged. There is no surcharge per image, because I edit everything that is technically sound and not a duplicate anyway. Multi-day productions I cost after the briefing.

A voucher for a shoot

An afternoon, not an object.

A gift voucher does not need a date in the diary. You choose the amount, add two lines of your own, and the confirmation with the bank details arrives by email straight away. Once the payment is in, the finished voucher comes as a PDF — usually the same day. It is valid against any service, including as part payment towards something larger. Redeemed whenever it suits. Valid for three years.

Who is the voucher for?

From whom?

Your two lines

Your email for delivery

See what the sheet looks like

Munichpixart Valid against anything

€390

for someone who deserves it

Valid against any service, including as part payment towards something larger.

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Before you book

Let us talk briefly first.

Fifteen minutes on the phone or on video. Free, no obligation, and afterwards you know whether the two of us fit. For a wedding that matters more than any package.

We go through your running order and I tell you where it gets tight
You hear how I talk before I spend ten hours next to you
Afterwards you get a quote that fits your day

Time chosen

Your name

Phone or email

Frequently asked

Ten questions, answered honestly.

How long until the finished images?

Three to four weeks for a wedding, around two weeks for parties and portraits. The reason is the volume: I edit every image that is technically sound and not a duplicate, not a small selection from them. After a wedding that is easily over a thousand images, and every one of them goes through my hands on its own.

How many images do I get?

All of them. I work differently from most: I edit every image that is technically sound and not a duplicate, rather than selling you a selection from them. What goes is what is out of focus, where somebody blinked, or where nearly the same frame appears three times. A real example: a wedding in Kitzbühel produced around 2,000 frames and I delivered 1,305 edited images. Without a selection package and without a surcharge per image.

I am not photogenic at all. Does this still work?

Yes, and I hear that sentence at nearly every shoot. Being photogenic is not a trait, it is a question of light and of the first ten minutes. Nothing that counts happens in those. After them, most people forget the camera is there.

What may I do with the images?

Anything private, with no time limit: print them, give them away, post them, make an album. For company work all your own channels are included. The rights are set out in the contract.

Why does every price say „from“?

Because a wedding has more variables than any other job: how many hours, whether there is one location or three, how far apart they are, whether the evening ends at ten or at two. A single fixed price for all of that would be either too high for a small ceremony or too tight for a whole day. So the figures here are starting prices. After a short conversation you get a firm quote within 24 hours with a fixed sum, and that sum appears unchanged on the invoice later.

Are there hidden costs?

No. What the quote says is what the invoice says. The only additions are things you order explicitly: extra hours, prints or an album. You never pay extra for individual images, because everything gets edited anyway. Outside Munich I charge 0.50 euros per kilometre.

How does payment work?

For weddings, a deposit of 30 per cent on booking and the rest after delivery. For portraits and city tours you pay once the images are with you. Invoice with VAT shown, made out to a company if you need that.

Do you know our venue?

In Munich and the surrounding area, very probably. If not, I drive out beforehand and look at the light at the hour of your ceremony. That costs nothing extra.

Will you help with the timings?

Yes, and it is one of the most useful parts of my work. Twenty-five years tell you how long congratulations really take and when the light is at its best. We go through the running order together before the day.

What about data protection at company events?

I collect your guests' consent digitally and document it so it can be traced. That lets you use the images afterwards on a sound legal footing, without having to keep lists yourself.

The first step

Put your shoot together.

The price adds up as you go. You can see what we will be talking about before you send anything.