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Family portraits for Yerawada households, where getting everyone together is a phone call rather than a logistics exercise.
The reason this keeps not happening
Everyone lives within a few streets. That is exactly why it never gets booked.
Families who are scattered book portraits because they have to. Families who see each other every day assume there is no hurry.
And then somebody dies, and the only photograph of them with the great-grandchildren is a corner of a phone picture from a birthday. That is the single most common regret we hear, and it is almost entirely a consequence of everyone being close enough that nobody felt any urgency.
The practical answer is to attach it to something already happening. A festival, a ceremony, a visit from the one relative who does live elsewhere — a date when the whole family is already assembled and dressed is a far easier ask than inventing one.
Plan for the oldest people in the room first. Seated arrangements while everyone is fresh, the four-generation frame before the youngest child runs out of patience, and everything else afterwards. In that order it takes twenty minutes; in any other order it takes an hour and half the room has left.
Families who are scattered book portraits because they have to. Families who see each other every day assume there is no hurry — and that is exactly why so many households here have no proper photograph of the oldest generation with the youngest.
It is the most common regret we hear and it is almost entirely a consequence of everyone being close enough that nobody felt any urgency.
Twenty minutes, in the right order, on a day the family is already together, fixes it. In any other order it takes an hour and half the room has left.
Attaching the session to a date that already exists is the single most useful piece of advice here. Households that try to invent a date usually do not manage it; households that add twenty minutes to a festival do.
It is also worth doing more than once. A portrait every couple of years across a decade is worth far more than one perfect session, and in a settled family that is entirely achievable.
Photograph the ordinary version as well as the formal one. Everyone in their best clothes is a record; everyone around a table is the family.
Getting ready
Attaching it to a date that already exists
Do not invent a date. Attach the session to something already happening — a festival, a ceremony, a visit from the one relative who lives elsewhere — because a day when everyone is already assembled and dressed is a far easier ask.
Plan for the oldest people first. Seated arrangements while everyone is fresh, then the four-generation frame, then everything else.
Agree clothes loosely as a group rather than precisely. A shared palette reads better than a uniform and nothing should be bought specially.
Planning it
The questions that decide the session
How many people and how many generations, because both change the space, the time and the order.
Whether anyone cannot stand for long, which we want to know at booking rather than on the day.
And whether it is at home or the studio. For a large family with elderly members, home is usually the better answer.
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Family sessions in Yerawada
How the session itself works is covered in full on the main family photography page.
- 1st Floor, Behind G S Mahanagar Co-op Bank Ltd, Sai Nagari, Mathura Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Pune, Maharashtra 411014
- +91 79032 43332
How many people can be in one session?
Tell us the number and we will plan for it. Large groups need more space, more time and someone keeping the order moving — all of which is fine if we know in advance.
Some of the elders cannot stand for long.
Say so when you book rather than on the day. We photograph the seated arrangements first, while everyone is fresh, and work outward from there.
Can you come to the house?
Yes, and for a large family it is usually the better answer. We work with the rooms and the light you have rather than rearranging the place.
Which areas near Yerawada do you cover?
Yerawada, Kalyani Nagar, Koregaon Park, Wadgaon Sheri, Viman Nagar, Vishrantwadi, Tingre Nagar and Dhanori, and we photograph across Pune.
How many people can be in a session?
Tell us the number and we will plan for it. Large groups need space and someone keeping the order moving.
When is the best time to do this?
Whenever the family is already together — a festival or a ceremony. Inventing a new date is the hard way.
Do you photograph four generations together?
Yes, and it is the frame worth planning the whole session around.
How long does it take?
Twenty minutes for the essential frames if the order is planned. Considerably longer if it is not.
Can we include pets?
Yes, and tell us in advance so we can plan the pacing.
What should everyone wear?
A loose palette rather than a uniform. Nothing bought specially.
Can we do this outdoors?
Yes, late in the afternoon. Tell us numbers and we will suggest a time.
Can you photograph several family branches together?
Yes, and send the groupings you want beforehand.
Can we do this at a temple or family property?
Tell us where and we will say what is possible and what permissions may be needed.
Do you photograph anniversaries and reunions?
Yes, and they are among the better reasons to get everyone together.
Can the photographs be printed as an album?
Yes. Tell us that is the plan and we will shoot with it in mind.
We have never had all of us photographed together.
Then this is worth doing now rather than at the next occasion. Tell us the number and we will suggest indoors or out.
Some relatives live in the same street rather than the same house.
That makes assembling everybody far easier than most families manage. Pick a time and they can walk over.
Can we include relatives who have married in recently?
Yes, and it is worth naming them. New members are the ones most often missing from the first family photograph after they join.
When is everyone next together?
A festival, a ceremony, a visit. Attach it to a date that already exists and it actually happens.