Baby Milestone Photography in Hadapsar, Pune

A plan that has to hold

A series is the one booking where a decision made once has to hold for a year.

Which means it has to be a decision everybody involved actually agrees with, rather than one person's preference that the others tolerate.

Sets that drift are usually sets where the second sitting was arranged by somebody who had different ideas from whoever arranged the first.

A different spot, a different look, a different sense of what it is for, and the sequence stops reading as one thing.

The fix is to agree the approach at the first sitting with everybody who will be involved in the later ones.

That is a five-minute conversation and it is what makes the difference between a series and three separate photographs.

Where people genuinely disagree about the approach, pick one and keep it. Consistency matters more here than any particular choice.

A series is unusual in that the disagreement often only appears at the second sitting.

The first one is somebody's idea and nobody objects. By the second, other people have opinions about how it is going and whether it should continue.

Anticipating that at the first sitting — by agreeing the approach with everybody, not just whoever booked — is what keeps a set coherent.

It is also worth agreeing who is responsible for arranging the later ones.

Sets that fail usually fail because responsibility was assumed rather than assigned, and each person thought the other was doing it.

One name, agreed at the start, is the practical fix.