Rashmita and Kunal
Flavor of UPA UP wedding in Bareilly, India, for which the booking happened in the US. I had shot Shiva’s wedding in Boston and as his brother’s big day in India came up, he called me. I flew down from the US and my team in India joined.
There is an honesty and personality in small town weddings and we love capturing these. We loved shooting the Rajahmundry wedding, in Andhra Pradesh and the character of a UP wedding is very different from South Indian ones. The comfort of shooting for someone you know well and it’s more a personal relationship than a professional one really helps in melting with the marriage party and getting more intimate pictures capturing the mood of the event. At that point it is not about equipment and how many people are covering the ceremony but more about being at the right place at the right time. Of course, experience of shooting hundreds of weddings helps.
This event was shot primarily with a Lumix S1, S1R, a Leica Q2 and Profoto B10 lights. The film was shot on Sony A7IIIs.
Here are the films from this amazing event with a full UP flavor