Pre-Wedding Photography in Keshav Nagar, Pune

Neither of you has done this

Being photographed as a couple is unfamiliar and most people find the first twenty minutes awkward.

That is universal and worth saying, because couples assume the awkwardness means it is going badly.

It passes. The first stretch of every couple shoot is stiff, and then people forget the camera is there and the session begins properly.

You are directed continuously. Nobody is asked to invent a pose or produce an expression on demand.

What you genuinely need: two outfits each, comfortable shoes, and a couple of hours at the right end of the day.

What you can skip: four outfit changes, several locations, elaborate props, and any attempt to plan poses in advance. All four cost time and none improve the result.

It is also fine to say what you are not comfortable doing. Every couple has something and saying it early is easier than declining in the moment.

It is worth asking what happens if you do not like being photographed, because a good number of people do not.

The session is run differently: fewer instructions, more walking about, and far less standing still being looked at.

It produces a different set rather than a worse one, and it is a common enough request that nobody will think it unusual.

It is also worth knowing that you can see how it is going as it goes.

Asking to look at the back of the camera partway through is entirely normal and it usually settles most of the anxiety.

Couples who do it stop worrying, and the second half of the shoot is better for it.