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Welcome to my photography Blog!

Hi there! My name is Bharat and I am a wedding and portrait photographer from Auckland, New Zealand, who specializes in capturing relaxed portraits, amazing details and real moments for the coolest brides and grooms and families in New Zealand, Australia and Africa.

This blog follows my professional life, and features business and educational information for current and potential clients, some personal blurb, and images from a) the weddings and portraits I shoot, b) wedding album and portrait album layouts I design and c) digitally painted images I create through my art and photography knowledge on latest technology.

It's basically like my own personal photo album combined with an information source for the visitors. This site is a little informal and I just want to give everyone a sense of who I am, and what I am all about.

When I am not shooting wedding and portraits, I work with images to enhance and restore including making some dramatic changes, under the umbrella of PhotoDoctor. (www.photodoctor.co.nz). More recently I have moved onto digital painting of portraits - a unique product line in NZ. Stay tuned to see some examples.

Thanks for visiting.

before the ceremony: Jenny and Neil

March 5, 2009 Posted in Wedding

When it comes to photographing a wedding, I don’t believe in making a list and following it. The exception to that is a list of (1) some glamour type shots of bride and groom individually before the wedding, (2) bride and groom as couple after the ceremony and (3 ) family and friends photos with the couple, after the wedding, if it is supplied by the couple or their family.

For the rest of the wedding I find that if I just respond to the unfolding of the day as naturally as I possibly can, I will succeed best with that approach. From the experience I have in the field, I pretty much know what to hone in on, following my instincts when discovering the key moments on the day.

For glamour shots prior to wedding, it is necessary to have a private session with bride, at her place and groom at his place.

In Jenny and Neil’s case, we skipped the glamour shots, in favours of some lively images with great lighting and simple poses. They naturally looked soooo lovely, that their charisma jumped out of their images. I enjoyed the sessions so much that it made everyone enjoy the photo shoots during the day. Jenny, specially had a ball being photographed, and loved being captured with fun approach.

When you’re photographing a wedding, there is a pressure there to make sure you shoot pretty much everything. At the same time, bride and groom rely on you as a photographer to make them feel at ease and make the day fun. On both counts, Jenny and Neil’s wedding, I am happy to say is a great success.

So, without any further ado… lets’ look at some of their highlight images…

Aren’t they gorgeous looking couple !!

gorgeous, gorgeous, glowing, beaming "beautiful" bride.....

Check out this traditional outfit on Neil. Don't they make an awesome couple !!

Neil with his parents. Look at those happy faces and do you notice the incredibly "cool" and tasteful outfits!!

Dad's dahling no-more-lil-gurrrl - ready and off to fly the nest.....

The Whanau.... bride with everyone at home.. one for posterity.

Neil with some of his Whanau... aunties, uncle, cousin....

the moment every bride waits for with sooo much anticipation...

ready to walk down the aisle... for that BIG moment...

Don’t know about you, but even while putting these together, I feel so much a part of the event. Hope on seeing these images some of such feelings are rubbing off on you….