“I'm getting married! How do I capture all those tender moments that would bubble up to portray my wedding as the beautiful, joyous event that it would be?”

CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE STORY OF YOUR WEDDING. If you are getting married in India and want to capture all the drama and joy of your wedding, without being asked to stage, to pose or to fake it all, and with total freedom to immerse yourself in your special day while being photographed candidly as things unfold, this page has what you've been looking for.

Various needs, beliefs and emotions power you on your big day.

Your wedding day would probably be the only one of your life where you receive total attention from family and friends unbidden all day long. Everybody would be dressed wonderfully for the occasion, to see you deposit the deepest threads of your being into the hands your chosen partner. It marks the completion of a major responsibility of your parents, who have long been rehearsing for this day. And, in the presence of your partner, a whole rainbow of emotions are going to wash over you - warmth, joy, cheer and delight with some poignant moments in-between.  With such a strong imprint, it would be one of the most remembered days of your lives.

One year, five years, ten years, twenty years from the event, the photographs of the day would be the only medium you will use to travel back in time, to experience that special day and all the thrill of it time after time. The knowing looks, the warm touches, the stolen smiles, the splendid dresses, the cherished vows, the charming colors, the cheerful people and all the drama that charged the whole event up.

Can you afford to leave the memory such an important occasion at the mercy of posed, flash-filled photographs that only capture plastic smiles and stiff re-enactments of every important piece?

Would you ever look over them with fondness? Would they cause that special feel of your big day to bubble up once again? Would you consider them the best photographs ever taken of your partner and you? Would you frame them up? Do they tell you the story of your wedding?

Of course not.

You would rather have someone stand back, watch the happenings, capture them, string the messages in those photographs together and a build up an empathetic, warm, beautiful story.

And, that is exactly what a photojournalistic approach to wedding photography enables.

It requires the photographer (me) to work unscripted at your wedding, to more around unnoticed, to observe the lighting and the congregations of people and to capture expressions of emotion so you could see them in ways you've never seen before.

You'll be fascinated when you see these moments, amazed at the tales they tell and the memories they freeze. You'd never seen your partner or yourself this way ever before.

No shepherding people into stiff poses. No bullying around. No staging.

The drama, the joy, the gravity. I work on the principle of being a photojournalist to capture them all - in rich color that is a big part of all Indian weddings and in black & white to emphasize the raw message in the picture, cutting out all distractions. The play of light and shadow, lines and shapes, color and monotone would breathe life into these captures. And will tell the story of your wedding faithfully. So you and your partner could cherish those memories forever.


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I have just completed a report called “CAPTURE ALL THE DRAMA AND JOY OF YOUR WEDDING”. This report contains all the information you need to treasure one of the most important events in your life with photographs that freeze the true character of your wedding, for you and your partner to enjoy over the years.
In the report:
  • you’ll discover the three qualities that the photojournalistic approach injects into every photograph that instantly separates it from traditional, posed ones
  • you’ll learn how such photographs would be taken at your wedding with no interference to you or anybody else, giving you all the freedom you want to immerse yourself in your special day
  • you’ll see about how these photographs are enhanced in software to extract the messages they contain
  • you’ll know how these photographs would be displayed online for you, your family and friends to view anytime
  • you’ll gather information about the options for your wedding albums and how your photographs  and captions would be laid out to string together the story of your wedding
  • you’ll discover how your photographs look when they are framed to match the décor of your home, how the components of the frame could be designed to match your needs and how they look under various lighting conditions
  • you’ll get to read the stories behind a few of my photographs and how they enhance the narrative
Download a free copy of the report below.

Gallery


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About me


Howdy! I’m Shashikiran.

About me personally, here goes:
  • I crave intellectual and emotional nourishment. I seem to have a ready and strong access to my emotions
  • I react the most to visual stimuli. Interpreting life through light interests me deeply
  • My greatest sense of fulfillment and meaning comes from putting people in states of Positive Flow
  • And, I like to figure things out. Conversations with me are like interrogations for the other guy; I barely do anything else apart from asking questions and processing the answers. I give into my curiosity easily
More formally:
  • I’m a trained computer software engineer, with graduate and post-graduate degrees in the field earned in India and in the U.S. As a result, I understand the technology that drives digital photography from the ground up
  • I’ve worked in big-ticket software companies and for a couple of smaller ones, for a while now. I've earned my stripes in computer networking
And, here’s why I’m into Indian wedding photography – my Mission Statement – if you want to call it that:

I do not consider myself to be in the business of wedding photography, but in the role of delivering empathy. I empathize with the suppressed, caring and compassionate sides of people, and attempt to capture them when they express this facet of their personalities without fear of reproach or censure. That is the reason I’m at weddings, camera in hand. To help them discover sides of themselves they haven’t paid attention too in a while.

Do get in touch with me if you have any comments or questions.