Before
Pre-Wedding Photography
A relaxed shoot before the wedding rush begins.
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Wedding coverage in Sangamwadi, shot for an album that should still read well in thirty years.
Thirty years is the test
A wedding album has the longest life of anything we photograph.
It gets looked at by people who were not born when it was made, which is a standard almost no other photography has to meet.
What survives that is the documentary part: the rituals, the faces, the parents, the moments nobody arranged.
What does not survive is the styling of the coverage itself — whatever editing look was current, whatever arranged shots were fashionable that season.
Old wedding albums are enjoyed for who is in them and quietly laughed at for how they were treated, and that pattern has held for as long as photographs have existed.
Which is a good argument for restraint. Light editing, honest colour, and coverage weighted towards what happened rather than what was arranged.
Where you want something more stylised, ask and we will do it. We will simply be straight about which parts of it are the parts that will date.
Weddings have one further consideration, which is that the album will be looked at by people making comparisons.
Children and grandchildren look at old wedding photographs to see what a family looked like, not to admire the photography.
That is worth remembering when deciding how much of the coverage should be arranged and how much documentary.
The documentary part is what answers their questions. The arranged part is what answers yours.
Both belong, and the usual mistake is weighting too heavily towards the second because it is what gets shown at the time.
A set that is mostly arranged photographs is a set that will be enjoyed for one year and skimmed for forty.
Getting ready
Weighting towards what lasts
Ask for coverage weighted towards the rituals and the people rather than towards arranged set pieces.
Send the group photograph list early, since those frames are the ones later generations look at.
Discuss treatment before the day rather than at delivery.
Planning it
What we discuss
How much treatment you want across the whole set.
Which functions you want covered.
And whether there is a hard finish.
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The engagement
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Ring ceremony and engagement coverage.
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Weddings in Sangamwadi
How the session itself works is covered in full on the main wedding photography page.
- 1st Floor, Behind G S Mahanagar Co-op Bank Ltd, Sai Nagari, Mathura Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Pune, Maharashtra 411014
- +91 79032 43332
What ages badly in a wedding album?
The treatment and the arranged set pieces. The rituals, the faces and the unarranged moments do not.
Can you edit in a particular style?
Yes, if you ask. We will be straight about which parts of it will date.
Which areas do you cover?
Sangamwadi, Yerawada, Koregaon Park, Kalyani Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Viman Nagar and Ghorpadi.
Do you travel outside Pune?
Yes, across Maharashtra and for destination weddings.
Can we book only some functions?
Yes. Tell us which.
Do you work with a second photographer?
For larger weddings often yes.
How much editing do you do?
Lightly by default. Tell us your preference.
Will you tell us if something is likely to date?
Yes, honestly, and then shoot whatever you have decided you want. That is more useful than agreeing with everything.
Is plainer always better?
Not always, and it would be a poor rule. It is worth having some plain frames in every set so there is something that works whenever anybody looks at it.
How do we book?
Send us the date and what you have in mind, and you get a clear quote for the coverage you actually need.
Who is in it, not how it was treated
That is what people enjoy about an old album, and it has always been true.