Photography and Cinematography for weddings events, engagements, anniversaries, parties, and more! We also do engagement photo shoots, families, and newborn/children photography.
To check availability please fill out our contact form here. Once we know about your event and how much coverage you are looking for, and if you would like photography, cinematography, or both, we can give you a custom quote based on your needs.
A signed agreement and retainer fee which goes towards the cost of the package is needed to reserve your date(s).
The number of photographers and cinematographers will be based upon the event and collection. For example, a pre-event for an Indian wedding may have fewer team members than a large wedding ceremony. Typically we like to shoot a majority of our weddings with two photographers and two cinematographers, and sometimes an assistant.
We are available for assignments around the world. We have done weddings in Southern California, Virginia, Texas, New Jersey, Mexico, and more! We are eager to do a wedding in India so if you are getting married in India let us know! We also love to travel to places like Bahamas, Jamaica, Hawaii, and other exotic locales
Within the San Francisco Bay Area, we do not charge for travel. We do charge for travel for weddings outside the Bay Area where we may have to drive a long way, fly, and/or possibly also secure hotel rooms either the night before or the night of the event. In some cases where there are multiple events over many days at a given location, it may be necessary for the client to have room(s) for us if one event ends late and then starts the next day very early. For example, there is an event the night before the wedding (Sangeet or Rehearsal dinner) and it ends at a hotel in San Francisco at 11pm but then our coverage the next day starts at 6am. Based upon that schedule, the client would get us room(s) for the event because one ends very late and then starts very early the next morning and everything is at the same venue.
It’s a great question that has no one-word answer. When we shoot a wedding we use a variety of techniques to capture the moment. Our style will be based on the couple, the mood, and the moment we are capturing. We love capturing images in a variety of styles because a wedding day encompasses many moods and allows us to use many techniques, including lighting, posing, and editing to create the style. We also work with each client individually to find out what images they are drawn to and what they like most about our work and then we focus on that. We like clean and beautiful images that are timeless the most!
We are best known for our cinematic highlight films that you can view here on our website and blog. We also edit long-form documentary films that capture pretty much the entire day and are edited with titles, transitions, and music. These films will range in length depending on the content of what we are shooting. For example, a five-minute speech would be five minutes in the documentary film. A twenty-minute speech would be a twenty-minute speech, so you get the picture.
All of the images released by our studio have been color corrected and adjusted to display properly on your computer and produce pleasing prints. We include these images with all of our packages and portrait sessions. Further “detailed editing, also known as retouching”, is done on enlargements ordered through us, as well as, for albums that are created by our studio. This would include reducing dark circles under eyes, removing distracting background elements, detailed skin retouching, body sculpting, etc.
Our turnaround time is 4-6 weeks for images and 3-4 months for films. We keep you updated as we are in the editing phases and usually beat our estimated delivery timeframes.
We primarily use professional cameras and lenses made by Canon and Sony. We are “very techie” so to speak, we are pretty much in the know when it comes to new gear and tech. We have the latest and greatest 4K cameras, drones, motorized gimbals, off camera flashes, and more!
We edit all of our images and give you high-resolution jpegs so the raw version is not needed. We do sell raw video footage on Mac formatted hard-drive.
We are cinematographers and also consider ourselves “wedding filmmakers”. There are lots of terms used for people who shoot weddings. Videographer, cinematographer, wedding filmmaker, etc. The main difference is a videographer mainly captures the day as it happened and then delivers a product that is just that. A wedding cinematographer or filmmaker will be looking for certain types of shots and angles that have a more cinematic look. For example, instead of shooting the groom put on his coat, we may show him picking it up, then putting it on, and then close up shots of his hands as he buttons it. For each shot, we are choosing different angles and lens focal lengths to make it more cinematic and what you would usually see in films, not in simple wedding videos. That means more detail, care, and planning are put into the composition, editing, and scenes to create a mood and look and it is not simply shooting what is there.
Yes, we offer custom designed lay flat flush mount wedding albums that are gorgeous! Pricing is based on size, the number of pages, and material choices. We keep it simple and offer three options to fit all budgets.
We create an online gallery for every event we photograph and send you the link to view and download the high-resolution images. This is a great method because you get your images instantly, they are backed up in the cloud for you, and you can view them anywhere in the world. It allows you to also share the images with your friends and family around the globe, as well as, give them the option to download the images if you have provided them the password.
Yes! You are given the opportunity to give suggestions of music you would like included in your documentary film. We also take suggestions for the cinematic highlights films, however, we want to ensure the song(s) chosen work well with the edit and we prefer to use music that we can license for these short pieces. We find that music that is not as recognizable makes for a better film as it becomes more timeless and more artistic. Choosing popular music from a certain time period will date the piece.
Yes, with all of our packages and portrait sessions you have the ability to make your own prints and albums. We recommend going through our studio for prints because we will make each image perfect prior to printing and use the best quality labs available but you are free to do what you wish with the images, except for selling them for a profit. Our studio does retain copyright to the images, we give the client “unlimited license to print the images for personal use”.
We shoot weddings of all types, sizes, and religions. We have become well known in the Indian community because of referrals and because we have an excellent reputation for delivering high-quality images, capturing important moments, and pleasing both the couple and their families. We know how to anticipate the moment, how to work effectively to be unobtrusive, yet be everywhere. Our personality and style of photography lends itself well to Indian weddings and that very physically and mentally demanding. We often shoot other types of weddings but because our main clientele and revenue comes from Indian weddings, we have decided to focus on that.
Yes, we carry a $1,000,000 liability insurance policy and can provide proof to your venue as needed. We always carry backup equipment.
We are well versed in all types of Indian and South Asian weddings. We have done hundreds of them including Gujarati weddings, Sikh Weddings, Punjabi and North Indian Hindu weddings, Muslim weddings, South Indian weddings including Kannada, Tamil, and Telegu weddings. We have also done Bengali, Nepalese, and a ton of fusion weddings. There is almost no combination we have not seen. With our great depth of understanding of these ceremonies, we are able to better position ourselves to capture all the various moments that are unique to each type of event. We have also covered many Mehndi nights, Poojas, Sataaks, Vidhis, Pithis, Haldis, and many more!
Yes, we love using our drone when possible to capture aerial shots of the venue and any other shots that add visual interest to our films and are safe to get. Please note, flying of our drone is dependent upon the rules of the venue, the weather and wind patterns, and if drones are allowed in the given airspace. We make no guaranteed usage of our drone due to these factors.
Our photography and cinematography collections when purchased together as a package are discounted compared to just getting one service or the other. Most of our clients hire us to do both.