The week before
Cake Smash Photography
One cake, one baby, and no expectations.
Explore Cake Smash PhotographyParties around Viman Nagar, Kharadi and Kalyani Nagar — at home, at a hall, or at a restaurant on Nagar Road. We arrive before the decor is touched, stay through the cake, and photograph the evening without becoming part of it.
Why this one is a logistics question
A birthday is not a session you schedule for a convenient hour. It is an evening, at your venue, running to a plan that will not survive contact with the guests.
Which means the photographer's journey is part of your timeline rather than ours. The balloon wall, the cake table, the name board someone spent a fortnight arranging — all of it photographs best in the quiet stretch before the first guest arrives, and that only happens if arriving early is genuinely easy.
The same applies at the other end. The cake is rarely cut when the invitation says it will be, and a photographer who is not facing a long drive home has no reason to be watching the clock while your family is still together in one room.
That is the whole argument for booking someone from this side of the city. Not that the photographs are different — that the evening runs the way you planned it.
Recent work
Six different celebrations — decor, cake, family and the candids in between.
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The week before
One cake, one baby, and no expectations.
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While everyone is together
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How we shoot a birthday — candids, decor, cake smash, group photographs — is on the main birthday page. These are the questions about the evening itself.
Yes — birthday coverage is location work. We come to the party rather than the other way round, whether that is a hall, a restaurant, a society clubhouse or your own home. Tell us the venue when you enquire and we will plan the timings around it.
That is usually the plan. Decor looks its best in the twenty minutes before anyone arrives — after that there are cups on the table and a child pulling at the balloons. Being close by is what makes an early arrival practical rather than an ambition.
We build that in. The coverage window is agreed with you when you book rather than left vague, and a late start is normal enough that it is planned for. If the running order changes on the night, tell us and we work to the new one.
Viman Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Chandan Nagar, Kharadi, Kalyani Nagar, Lohegaon, Dhanori, Yerawada, Tingre Nagar and Vishrantwadi are the closest, and we cover parties across the rest of Pune too.
Both work and they give you different things. A party is documented as it happens, with the family and the noise in the frame. A studio session is calm, controlled and gives you the portraits — which is why plenty of families near us do a studio sitting in the week before and then have us cover the party itself.
Tell us where the party is and roughly when the cake is planned. We will come back with availability and what the coverage would look like.