Bavarian company Friedrich Klotz booked Michael Zargarinejad to shoot the image campaign for its brand new label Fritz der Bayer - a Bavarian Attitude.

Fritz der Bayer is 100% designed and made in Germany with high grade quality textiles and processing. It is made for men with a sure taste for style, progressive and edgy.

Featured exclusively in this Showcase are some of the upcoming visuals.

ADRET - Advertising Retouching is a Hamburg-based high-end digital retouching studio focused on still life, luxury, jewellery, beauty and fashion.

Unique images demand perfection and control. With special photography techniques and retouching experience, the highly skilled retouchers at ADRET pursue creative solutions with patience and concentration. With a full menu of services and efficient time management, the ADRET team is prepared to accomplish all imaging needs by deploying a range of skills to achieve outstanding results.

The experienced team takes the raw materials and polishes them to form a perfect diamond, setting the mood and correcting lighting and colours along the way. ADRET creates outstanding visual effects and generates images of the highest quality.

ADRET's goal is to support clients with their projects. Visit the website for more information.

This Showcase features recent work for ARD, Baldessarini and Lufthansa.

Emphasising the company's close cooperation with all the hidden stars behind the camera and on set, with a wink of an eye FGV Schmidle claims "We are 'Making of!'"

FGV is deeply rooted in the international film industry, and with vast experience and an impressive inventory has been providing leading production services for decades. Consistent cooperation and communication is a vital part of the company’s knowledge base. As a result clients are able to do their jobs better, be it with the latest high-tech equipment, through the team's technically demanding solutions, or even its own developments.

Established in 1972 and with home bases in Munich and Berlin, FGV Rental provides services including camera systems (digital, film, and photo), lighting (daylight, tungsten, LED, tube, photo), grip (from cranes to dollies, tripods, stands and more), and vehicles, all with a 24/7 rental pick-up and return.

A 700 m² / 7,500 sq.ft. studio located on the Munich premises benefits from great transportation connections. Features include a ceiling height of 12m/40ft, motorised green- and bluescreens, three motorised rigs for loads of up to two tons each, a 7x14m (24x46ft) ceiling reflector, Cyclorama covering two walls (24x29x11m / 79x95x36ft), production offices, an industry standard kitchen and parking lot.

A spacious ground floor studio featuring an extra large infinity cove (width 12m, height 4.90m, depth 10m), Highnoon White provides enough space for large sets or productions relying on more than one set at a time.

The complete studio area amounts to 346m² (17.5m by 19.8m, with no coloumns) while access to the studio is via a roll up door large enough to allow a standard 7.5t truck to fit in. There are nine parking spaces for cars and trucks assigned to the studio.

Equipment includes in-house photo rental through Knackscharf München GmbH & Co KG. Clients receive a 10% discount on all the Knackscharf equipment while working in the studio.

Studio facilities include one 63A and two 32A heavy current connectors, WiFi, rolling partition walls for separating sets, polyboards and lots more. Two spacious hair and make-up workstations and a styling room with large mirrors, clothes and shoe racks complete the offer. External-facing windows can be covered.

”We treat our clients fairly, therefore we don’t hide any costs. Studio fees include cleaning, electricity (with the exception of hmi and other continuous light sources) and heating. Price on request. Just give us a call and tell us your need."

Nicole Smolin is a Hamburg-based fashion and still life stylist. She holds a diploma in Fashion Design from ESMOD International Berlin and works for film and photo productions, creating new styles for international clients.

She recently worked with radio station Antenne MV, WeightWatchers and Vegan Magazin.

Nicole develops campaigns across different fields such as industrial, commercial and catalogue. She also realises fashion, beauty and still life editorials for magazines.

Visit her website to see more of her work, get in touch directly via email, or call +49 176 103 686 44.

3Dportfolio is a Dusseldorf-based agency. Since 2008, its staff along with founder, Christoph Pieper, have been masters in CGI product shots and visualizations.

Transforming clients' products into the digital imagery world for campaigns and packaging, 3Dportfolio's competence and creativity has consistently grown, with the company able to generate high-end, professional renderings that fullfill even the highest expectations.

The company has worked for clients including Procter & Gamble, Coty, ifolor, Siemens and Délonghi Group and brands such as Braun, Oral-B, Wella, Londa, Clairol and Kadus. The company has also provided renderings to global agencies including BBDO, Grey, Select, Landor, K2V and Publicis.

"3Dportfolio is the perfect answer to every question regarding renderings, 3D illustrations, product hero-shots, animations, augmented and virtual reality models, and last but not least, client satisfaction."

Email or call +49 (0)2102 148 222 2.

Cologne-based laif core brings brands and values to life with the power of authentic photography.

"We assist companies in visually communicating their brands and messages, show the values of NGOs, government organisations or foundations, and document their work.

Our most recent project covers the vital issue of climate change. Images and projects from our photographers around the world show the visible effects of an all embracing climatic change. Reports on the causes, effects and possible solutions have been compiled in a book, while photos for an exhibition have also been prepared."

Studio G3 is a multifunctional, daylight-flooded loft rental studio for photo, film productions and corporate events located in a quiet inner courtyard in the centre of Munich. The studio has one big and three smaller rooms.

The open plan 380m² ground floor studio features a large cyclorama, a large studio window, a bar, a make-up mirror and movable room elements (lounge, tables, screens, etc.) 

The space is ideal for photo, film productions, castings, workshops, seminars, events, presentations, as a showroom and for other events.

The team provides a network of creative and competent partners, from set-building to catering, to support every kind of creative need. "On site, we will fulfill your every wish within the scope of our service offer. Do not hesitate to contact us!"

Recent events for Diesel, Mavi, 'Salon Merano' and many others took place in the studio.

Beata Isabella Nitzke is a Polish-born, Stuttgart-based freelance fashion stylist, fashion editor and creative director. Her fashion portfolio includes work for magazines such as AFI, Jute, AM21, Solstice and many more.

Beata also works for fashion, advertising, catalogue and commercial clients including Siemens, Bosch and Sparda Bank.

Beata loves to work in both men’s and women’s fashion. Her impeccable sense of style has influenced countless projects. In her work she creates moments in which absolute perfection and impeccable taste are preserved for eternity in one photograph.

Beata's taste influences labels big and small, and her unique style can always be distinguished - characterised as it is by the strong will to obtain the perfect photograph. She puts her entire passion into her work and her good humour is always present. She speaks German, Polish and English.

For Beata, "good styling is like a gentle, radiant smile. It is never too imposing and yet can be seen by everyone; it never says too much and yet you know the whole story."

Berlin-based Claas Cropp Creative Productions is a full service production company with experience across all areas of still photo production, location scouting, casting and moving images.

Recent productions include:

• Bette catalogue production shot by Christoph Sagel in Germany (Stan Hema).
• Telekom Festnetz campaign production shot by Jan Kopetzky in Berlin (DDB).
• Alberto Man & Woman summer 2017 campaign production shot by Thomas Hoeffgen in Germany (in-house).
• Deka Investment campaign production shot by Manu Agah in Berlin (Scholz & Friends).
• Otto catalogue production shot by Florian Grill in Berlin (inhouse).
• Goldwell Elumen & Dual Senses video production directed by Markus Jans. DoP: Fridolin Schöpper, in Berlin (in-house).

Other clients include brands such as Louis Vuitton, Brioni, Lacoste, Nike, Adidas, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Siemens, BMW, Audi, VW, Mercedes-Benz and Lufthansa.

Photographers include Annie Leibovitz, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Ellen von Unwerth, Nadav Kander, Martin Schoeller, Uwe Düttmann, Phil Poynter, and many more.