The Scope is one of the leading CGI studios with clients across the globe. All images featured in this Spotlight demonstrate fully computer-generated environments and cars.

During the past few months, The Scope has produced images and animations for Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz and BMW utilizing the ScopeFlow® process. The team also did a selection of portfolios, providing vibrant settings for an Audi Q7 and Audi TT.

Projects in this Spotlight include images and animations for the BMW 1 Series, Audi Q7 Glass Reveal portfolio, Audi BeNow Lab portfolio, BMW i3, Mercedes EQ launch campaign as well as the Lincoln Navigator Black Label 2018.

PX Group specialises in CGI, creative retouching and pre-press services. An in-depth know-how of transportation, fashion, still life, advertising and people imaging makes the PX production house a reliable and versatile partner who works closely with agencies and photographers both in-house and on location. They offer HDRI sphere photography accompanied by CG Artists on location, which make car photo shoots much easier. One of their recent projects was the Audi Sport Brandbook, wherein PX gave support with CGI, retouching and pre-press for the whole book.

Additionally, the PX Group offers film and animation which covers concept development, shooting and post-production.

With offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt, the ongoing success of the PX network over the years is fundamentally due to its commitment to its full-time digital artists. Due to this focus, short term and large scale jobs can be handled efficiently and to the highest standard.

Celebrating its 10th year of operation, Prolightrent is one of the leading rental houses in town supplying photographers and film-makers with the finest equipment.

The company's top-notch gear is in superb shape and is constantly updated with the latest releases. All the big brands - Arri, Briese, Bron, Canon, Kinoflo, Leica, Manfrotto, Nikon, Profoto and Scrim Jim - are ready to rent.

Latest additions include the Nikon D850, Phase One IQ1 100 for Hasselblad H, Hasselblad H6d-100c, Carpet Light, Profoto A1 and Briese Zwielicht.

"Save the date for the big birthday party - 28/09/2017! Send an email if you'd like to join us!"

Prolightrent delivers equipment on location with a 24/7 pick-up and drop-off service, offering "ready to fly" packed equipment or the dropbox for pick-up and returns at any time.

Visit the website for more information.

elbmodels is celebrating it’s 10th birthday this year. The agency was one of the first agencies in Germany to specialise in representing mature models for the film and photography industries.

The company offers the perfect face for everyone, with an emphasis on changing the out-dated image of more mature people in advertising. elbmodels is based in Hamburg and Munich and is specialised in actors and models between the ages of 30 and 90.

Its roster of over 300 models works for national clients like AWM, Bosch, Zeiss and Nutella, magazines like Brigitte, MYWAY and Donna, and also for international clients including Procter & Gamble, Lufthansa, Sennheiser and Widex.

Featured in this Showcase are combined videos and pictures highlighting the sustainable projects for Kitechild and Loki Schmidt Foundation.

As a photographer and film designer, it is important for Christoph Siegert to offer an imagery from one source.

Kitechild, a NGO from Los Angeles, has developed projects within several orphanages in Kenya. Christoph Siegert’s visual language highlights the emotional aspects and the positive impact on the children in several photo motifs and a film. The film has won a Silver Finalist Award at the International Deauville Green Awards this year. Among 370 film entries the jury chose the film, 'Kitechild - Kenya', as one of the winners in the 'Social Responsibility' category.

For the Loki Schmidt Foundation Christoph created image motifs that, with an emotional approach and concentration on the people in nature, aroused the interest of the viewers for the foundation. This is followed by the image film of the foundation, which is committed to the preservation of rare plants and animals throughout Germany.

Welcome to Showcase Germany, brought to you by Production Paradise. This edition features some of the top photo and film production companies, photo agents, photographers, directors, illustrators, post production companies, location services, equipment rental companies, rental studios, model and casting agencies, and other creative talents and services based in Germany.

Companies such as Lufthansa, Nike, Siemens, Vogue, Mercedes-Benz, Glamour, Singapore Airlines, Nivea, Porsche, Schwarzkopf, Marc Cain and Philips among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Berlin (Photo / Film), Cologne (Photo / Film),  Dusseldorf (Photo / Film), Frankfurt (Photo / Film), Hamburg (Photo / Film), Munich (Photo / Film) and Stuttgart (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Perspective Playground - interactive art and photography exhibition, until 24th September at Kraftwerk Berlin. 
• Ellen von Unwerth: Heimat - provocative series of photographs from von Unwerth homeland, Bavaria. Until 11th November at IMAGIS, Munich. 
• Peter Bialobrzeski: Die zweite Heimat - photography exhibition exploring the concept of homeland, until 7th January at the House of Photography, Hamburg.

Our cover image was shot by Heidi Rondak.

The youngster from northern Germany not only has a passion for food, but also a knack for conceptual photography with a graphic edge.

Calle Hackenberg’s pictures are not just plain delicious-looking photographs but are rather interwoven in vivid, visual stories that gradually unfold in front of the beholder’s eye.

Two of his most recent projects are featured in this Showcase. The cover story for the current issue of Gruner+Jahr’s BEEF! Magazine and the anniversary series for the August issue of DBmobil, Deutsche Bahn’s customer magazine.

Hamburg-based photographer Nina Struve is curious. How do people furnish their flats? How do they feel cosy? How do they live? Due to this curiosity, Nina's focus is on interior, people, stills and food.

She proves her intentions, her taste and a touch for that right moment, for the natural mood of people, buildings and apartments and catches it in her pictures. Nice things are presented in a harmonic and well balanced way. Studio or on location, her images always have this daylight vibe.

Recent projects featured in this Showcase:

• Daylight and natural mood in images for 'Küche des Jahres', coverage of the five best kitchens in Germany 2017. Editorial images were shot for Zuhause Wohnen Magazin / MHK.
• Hygge - the Danish lifestyle, meaning cosy or comfy, is the theme for the refurbishment of the Hotel and Restaurant Landhaus Flottbek as well as the shoot. Images were used on the internet, PR and social media.
• Cosiness and wellbeing in images for Poster XXL for a campaign across all media.
• Images for 'Furnishing Elbphilharmonie' for Studio Besau Marguerre were used in several magazines, newspapers, social media and documentaries.

Photographer Tim Schober and food stylist Lukas Baseda created new kinds of ice cream and sorbet accompanied by Samova products. Intense colours are only one result of their teamwork.

Philipp Schneiders' summer fruit close ups open new views and details of this delicious superfood.

Photographer Markus Dominitzki and food stylist Anna Wiedey dedicated themselves to the king of vegetables - the asparagus.

Steven Haberland exposes characters, turns musical figures into images, and makes sounds visible. Born in Berlin, educated in Los Angeles, living in Hamburg, and published around the world, Steven has confronted many artists and celebrities with his camera over the past 20 years for various publications and many album-covers.

Some of his most remarkable portraits include the likes of Quincy Jones, Kent Nagano, John Neumeier, Al Jarreau, Vladimir Klitschko, Gregory Porter, Jane Goodall, Lang Lang and Jamie Cullum. He works out of Hamburg.

Steven has worked for clients including Universal Music, Sony Music, 20th Century Fox, Beiersdorf AG, Bollinger, Dedon, Essilor, Mont Blanc, Telekom, Lufthansa Magazine, Zeit, Stern and Welt.

Steven is represented in Germany by katrinnehlsen.com.