Birthday Photography in Hadapsar, Pune

Parents and child differ

Once a child is old enough to have opinions, they usually differ from their parents.

Parents want the decorations, the family photographs and a nice portrait. The child wants to be left alone to play.

Both are entirely reasonable and the conflict is real. A child pulled away from their own party for photographs is a child who resents the photographer.

The workable answer is to get anything requiring cooperation done in the first twenty minutes, before the party absorbs them.

After that they are left alone, and the rest of the coverage happens without asking them for anything.

It is worth telling the child what will happen rather than surprising them, particularly from about five years old.

A child who has been told there will be two minutes of photographs at the start is far more cooperative than one who is grabbed mid-game.

There is usually a disagreement between the parents about scale that shapes everything else.

One wants something small at home; the other wants a proper party. What gets booked is a compromise, and the coverage should suit whichever it actually ended up being.

A small home party photographed as though it were a large event looks thin, and the reverse looks chaotic.

It is also worth agreeing which of you the photographer should ask on the day.

At a party both parents are busy and being asked things constantly, and a photographer adding to that is not helping.

One name, decided beforehand, and everything else is handled without interrupting anybody.