Frequently Asked Questions
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No one, unless you decide otherwise.
By default, your photographs are for you alone. Nothing I shoot is ever published, posted, or shown to anyone — not on this site, not on Instagram, not in my portfolio — without your written permission, given for specific images and specific uses. There is no fine print that changes this, and no version of the session where it works differently.
Every photograph you see on this site is there because the man in it was asked, in writing, and said yes. If you ever give permission and later change your mind, tell me — the images come down immediately, no explanation needed.
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No. How far you go is always your decision.
Sessions range from fully clothed to nude and everything between. We agree on the direction beforehand, when we plan the session together — and you can change your mind on the day, in either direction, at any point, without explaining yourself. The plan exists to serve you, not to hold you to anything.
Plenty of strong boudoir work involves no nudity at all. What makes the photograph is presence, not skin.
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No — it's the normal starting point.
Most men I photograph have never stood in front of a professional camera in their lives, let alone like this. You are not expected to arrive knowing what to do, and you won't be left standing there wondering.
I direct every frame: where to stand, where to put your hands, where to look, when to breathe out. Between shots I show you the images on the camera, so you're never guessing how you look — you're seeing it, and we adjust together. Posing is my job. Showing up is yours.
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No. Book for the body you have, not the one you're planning.
Some of my clients book a session to mark a milestone — a transformation finished, a chapter closed, a decade turned. But a photograph is not a reward you have to earn first, and "after I lose a few kilos" has kept more men from doing this than anything else.
Light, angle, and direction are my responsibility, and they do far more than a gym month ever will. Your only job is deciding you're worth photographing as you are now. In my experience, that decision is the transformation.
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By the time you see your gallery, you'll have seen and shaped these photographs three times.
Before the session, you get a written concept and a mood card for every shot — nothing is planned without your input. During the session, I show you frames on the camera as we go, so you're never wondering how you look; you're watching it and steering it. And within 72 hours, you receive four fully edited preview images.
If that preview doesn't feel like you, we talk — and if something genuinely missed, we reshoot it, free, sized to whatever didn't work. In practice, we rarely get that far: the preview conversation is usually about which images you like most.
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I reply within 48 hours, and then it's a conversation — not a commitment.
You'll hear back from me at contact@sebastiancomsa.com. If you'd like to take it further, the next step is a short call or a coffee — free, around fifteen minutes, with no obligation attached. It exists so you can decide whether I'm someone you'd trust with this, before any planning or money enters the picture.
And if you go quiet after my reply, that's fine. No follow-up campaign, no pressure. An inquiry is just an inquiry.
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In and around Frankfurt — in a place we choose together.
An apartment, a studio, a hotel room, or outdoors: the location is part of the planning, chosen to fit the concept and your comfort. If you already have somewhere in mind — including your own home — say so, and we'll work with it.
For anywhere further afield, see Beyond Frankfurt.
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You'll know exactly, well before the day.
Wardrobe is planned together during the concept stage, and every shot's mood card lists what it needs. Nothing about the session is improvised at your expense — by the time we shoot, the only thing left for you to bring is yourself.
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Four finished images within 72 hours. The full gallery within five weeks.
Within three days of your session, you receive four fully edited preview images — so you're not waiting weeks to know how it went. The complete private gallery of 20 individually edited, high-resolution photographs follows within five weeks, and usually sooner.
The gallery is private and for your eyes only, delivered through a password-protected link that no one else can access.
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€200 secures your date. The rest is settled before the session — never during it.
The €200 booking amount is paid by bank transfer when we fix the date. The remaining €300 is paid before the session begins, by cash or transfer, whichever you prefer — invoiced or receipted to match. You are fully paid up before we start, because I don't want money in the room.
Full details of what the session includes can be found here.
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The images come down immediately. The money is a separate question.
Takedown is never conditional — if you ask, the images come down the day you ask, regardless of anything else.
The €100 works like this: the 120-day count starts the day I pay it to you, not the day you agree to the release. If you withdraw all of the released images within 120 days of that payment, I'll ask for the €100 back, since the discount was for a use that, in the end, didn't happen. After 120 days, the discount is yours to keep no matter what you decide later — and the images still come down the moment you ask, on the same terms, forever.
Withdrawing only some of the images doesn't trigger a refund. The clawback only applies if you withdraw everything inside the window.
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Yes — any couple.
Two men, a man and a woman, two women: the session works the same way. One concept, planned with both of you, direction throughout, and time for each of you alone as well as together.
Discretion works the same way too, with one addition: consent is individual. Each of you decides separately what happens with the images — and any photograph of you together is only ever shown if both of you have agreed in writing. Details and pricing are here.
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I work in English by design — a large part of my clientele is Frankfurt's international community, and English is the language I direct and plan in. You're welcome to write to me in German; I'll reply, and if we work together, the session itself runs in English.
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Occasionally, yes.
I sometimes photograph on location while travelling. If you're somewhere else — or will be — tell me where and when via Contact, and we'll see if it lines up. You can see that side of my work at Beyond Frankfurt.