{"id":26397,"date":"2018-01-19T20:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/?p=26397"},"modified":"2018-01-19T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:56:55","slug":"stories-behind-some-of-our-serendipitous-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/stories-behind-some-of-our-serendipitous-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favourite Serendipitous Shots: The Story Behind Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
As candid and documentary wedding photographers, we know that weddings are crazy and chaotic affairs. They’re almost like those mystery novels where you never know what might happen next. We can be a hundred percent sure that things will never go according to plan at a wedding – events start late, that perfect location you scoped out is off-limits,\u00a0there is no time for couple portraits and so on. Beyond a point, despite a lot of pre-production and planning, things go out of your control. Pre-weddings are a little bit different in that aspect, but even then you cannot control everything. So, over the years we have learnt to go deal with whatever curve ball comes our way.<\/p>\n
We can plan and plan but occasionally things just happen and we get that perfect shot we didn\u2019t originally plan for! Here are the stories behind some of our serendipitous shots. We hope you enjoy their stories as much as we did making them.<\/p>\n
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This has to be one of our favourite portraits from the past year! When we shot Nandini’s engagement way back in the summer – things were inevitably delayed, and we only had 30 seconds for her portraits. We both swore that when the wedding came around, she would put her foot down and make the time! And boy, did she! However, as fate would have it – the heavens opened up during her winter Delhi wedding, and it was grey, cold and smoggy outside. All the brilliant ideas we had for her portraits in the lovely farmhouse she was getting married in went down the drain and we had all the time in the world to kill stuck in her hotel room. We knew we had to pull off something special for her, so we dug into our bag of tricks – and this is what we came up with!<\/p>\n
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Prateek and Sandy<\/a> wanted a short session with things that were typical of Delhi and we were only too happy to plan a photo shoot! We chose the iconic India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhawan to create historic memories for the lovely couple.\u00a0We were trying to frame an establishing shot of the location with the night lights of Rashtrapati Bhawan in the background and just when we got our composition and lighting right, a Delhi SWAT police van whirred by! Oh, how glad are we that we pressed that shutter-release button at the right time! We love it when things just fall into place to give us that extra layer in the our photos, that too without any planning.\u00a0This shot remains one of our most favourites till date!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n#3 The one where we embraced the chaos<\/h3>\n