Daan Bachmann

Wedding — 2025

Wedding at Schloss Neuhaus, Sinsheim: Svenja & Jannik

I was with Svenja and Jannik for their wedding at Schloss Neuhaus near Sinsheim, from getting ready to the group photo on the lawn. Almost always with the telephoto and from a distance, so that nobody pays any attention to the camera, not even during the ceremony in the chapel.

Wedding at Schloss Neuhaus near Sinsheim

Schloss Neuhaus stands on a hill spur near Ehrstädt, a district of Sinsheim in the Kraichgau. Christoph von Degenfeld had the present castle built in 1596, it has belonged to the von Gemmingen family since 1926, and today it’s above all a place for weddings. Below the castle there’s a centuries-old chapel, and that’s exactly where Svenja and Jannik got married in July 2025.

Good to know if you’re planning one: since September 2025 you can also have a civil ceremony at Schloss Neuhaus, in a dedicated ceremony room.

Close up, but not in the way

For most of the day I shot with a zoom that goes up to 150mm, usually right at the long end. That keeps me close to the faces without standing in between, and people soon forget about the camera. In the chapel this matters most of all: during the ceremony nobody should be looking at the photographer, only at the couple. I only needed the flash a handful of times that day.

For the getting-ready shots I worked with the light coming in through the window. From behind or from the side it puts a bright rim around hair and shoulders and softens everything, just right for that quiet moment before the hustle and bustle.

Frames, layers and a touch of black and white

I like pictures with frames and layers: an archway the couple steps through as they come out of the chapel, or guests blurring into patches of colour behind the guitarist. That adds depth and shows, in passing, who else is there.

I used black and white for the moments with the couple’s friends. Those are about energy and gestures, not colours. For the group photo and the castle a 20mm wide-angle went on the camera, and at the end the castle stood backlit by the evening sun.

Wedding photographer in Heidelberg: packages, how it works and questions

Location
Schloss Neuhaus, Sinsheim
Year
2025
Genre
Wedding
Group photo with all the guests on the lawn in front of Schloss Neuhaus, a child being lifted up

Photographer in Heidelberg

I photograph weddings, couples, families, babies, medical practices, property and theatre, in Heidelberg and the Rhine-Neckar region. Warm, close and observational rather than posed: with me, people can simply be themselves. Most of the time I work with the light that’s there and with a telephoto lens from a bit of a distance, so people soon forget the camera. And the little things at the edges have their place too.

As a wedding photographer, I follow you through the day reportage-style, from getting ready through the ceremony to the celebration. So far that’s taken me to Heidelberg Town Hall after a stroll through the old town, to the Chapel in Südstadt, to Schloss Neuhaus near Sinsheim and to a barbecue hut in the Taunus, for my best friend’s wedding.

I like photographing families best outdoors in Heidelberg, or at your home if that suits better, while you play rather than sit still. And couples on a walk through the old town, along the Neckar or in the woods. Babies I visit at home, from newborn to first birthday.

For medical practices, I take photos for their website that show what it actually looks like there, as I did for the Born & Winter paediatric cardiology practice in Heidelberg. With property, I’m all about bright rooms and straight lines, for example in a detached house in Pfaffengrund. And for the Wildfang theatre company in Eppelheim, I photographed scenes and group shots two days before opening night, using only the stage lighting.

Then there are my personal series, shot with the small camera in film-like colours, sometimes in black and white too: a trip up the Neckar with the Weiße Flotte and a few August days by the North Sea in Cadzand.

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