Entering into our 9th year.

In our early days like many wedding photographers in Chennai we decided to spend a part of the income on promoting our brand online, and since that was the beginning of the social media era. We had very little idea of what to do and what not to do. We still remember getting in touch with a marketing team and one of the services that were being offered was changing the Facebook cover of our business page once a week!

Luckily, we din’t spend a lot of money to promote ourselves, and instead, we focused on producing quality over the number of events we do. It was a risky option since no one would say “no” to a client who is looking for a wedding photographer but our strategy worked and our loyal clients have become our brand ambassadors and marketing agents, most of the events that we always referred by our clients which allows us to spend more money on the product we deliver and less on promoting ourselves.

Be it weddings or a first birthday shoot, as a policy we have decided to do only one event at a time, which means we do not commit oursleves to multiple events at same time and there is no question of sending our “B Team” to do an event on our behalf.

In 2022, we are entering our 9th year in wedding photography and we thank each and every couple who has chosen us on our big day, parents who wanted to document one of the most important moments in their kid’s life, and everyone who hired our service and who has booked us. Thank you.

It's okay even if you miss it.

The purpose of this blog to spread awareness of the unprecedented situation and this is our first-hand experience of shooting events after the pandemic started spreading across the country, last year around this time of the year.

If you are that introverted guy who does your best to avoid weddings and other social gatherings even when you are personally invited, then “You are a role model today!”

Plenty of weddings that were supposed to happen got postponed. as a result, the first three months of 2021 were pleasantly hectic for the entire wedding industry, not just wedding photographers.

So we had back to back weddings among other events like babyshower, birthdays, and baptism shoots going in full form. in fact, we had already shot more weddings than the total number of weddings we had shot in the previous year! Just when things we getting back to normal, at least that is how we all thought for a while, things took a U turn.

When WPJA awarded this picture in their Diamond awards category, we didn’t know that it was for predicting the future! Shot in a pandemic free Era!

Everyone one of us took things for granted. Warring a mask, (which was compulsory for our entire team) is not everything, you can wear a mask and still behave irresponsibly by shaking hands and pulling it down when talking to someone and we are paying a huge price for the unpardonable compliance.

Not just the virus even the public psyche is highly contiguous.

When we are entering a hall where most of them do not wear a mask, we tend to get carried away, we forget that we are living among the pandemic and suddenly we start to believe that covid is the thing of the past and some of us who would have heard a few things from the conspiracy theorist would be convinced by looking at such huge gathering. How can there be a virus when things look normal, we wondered!

We at incognito frames as a team of responsible wedding photographers and videographers have done our best while attending events, be it a small gathering in a house with just 3 members or a wedding in a hall, we have always made sure to wear masks, maintain distance as much as possible and avoid touching unnecessary things while shooting and many times we have avoided taking mobile phones from guests when we were asked to take pictures and on a couple of occasions we avoided events from other districts and states.

It is important to wear a mask, maintain social distance, and other things that you are supposed to do in a public place even if you its a small gathering

Avoid public gatherings as much as possible

Now, this may not be a popular statement to make from a wedding vendor but it is the Truth! Since the cases have hit an all-time high in our country, it is best advised to stay indoors and avoid public gatherings as much as possible. Most of the wedding photographers in Chennai and even smaller towns are offering live streaming of the entire event which you can enjoy watching on your mobile with your entire family. It's totally fine to miss that important wedding of your friend or your friend’s family which you have been waiting for for years.

You will get to see the pictures in a few days when shares them in all his social media handles, your friend will share that wedding montage on your WhatsApp but the most important thing at the moment is you and your family being hale and hearty.

if you are hell-bent to make it, then make sure you are following all the rules that you are supposed to follow when you are in a public gathering

These are some of the most common mistakes that we have seen among guests

• Never shake hands and hug someone even if it is your long lost friend whom you may meet during a wedding.

• Do not give your mobile phone to the photographer or anyone and ask them to click a picture when you are already standing for a group photo.

• Maintain social distance even if you are visiting the venue with your gang of friends which we would definitely not recommend.

• Never pull down your mask when you are talking to someone, even if you are not audible to others.

• Small gatherings in a small place are equally vulnerable since there won’t be much space to maintain distance from others.

• Wish the couple and make your best efforts to leave the hall as early as possible.

Stay safe, stay indoors, never travel unless it’s necessary, avoid public gathers as much as possible, take the vaccine if you are eligible.

Multicultural Weddings

Multicultural Wedding photographers in Chennai

Love is in the air and it doesn’t see cast, creed or religion! Once the hearts unite, the next bigger step is to unite the families. Marriages within the same communities have their own flavors and challenges. It’s no exception to multi-cultural weddings, right? Except that more feathers are added the hat.

These marriages include many varieties like the wedding happening twice at different timings, one after the other on the same day or even blending other the culture in a single wedding. Whatever the option could be, as far as there is love and a sense of celebration – that is all that matters.

One thing guaranteed is that the guests would feel very intrigued to see the versatile rituals and can’t take eyes off the ceremony which usually is not the case in regular weddings where they enjoy the music more than the wedding.;)

Not just to the guests, but it will be fun the intimate family members who are planning as well. After all, it helps to understand each other’s culture on a deeper level.  Not to miss, it’s time to taste different cuisine.

Just like any other wedding, this is one fabulous memory for the bride, groom, and the family. It all ends up in having fond memories of feeling love and inclusiveness – isn’t a marriage is all about this?

An Indo-German Wedding: Our first ever multicultural wedding, we were as excited as the bride and groom. The wedding was held in traditional Tamil wedding rituals and the effort and the sincerity the bride’s family showed was unbelievable. One of the images we shot during the couple portrait session won us our first-ever international award that was for couple portrait awards.

An Indo-Chinese Wedding; Though we were not the official photographers for this event, we ended up shooting some beautiful moments for the bride and groom, we were assigned by Andrea’s creations who was behind the beautiful decors in the Church followed by a reception in a star hotel to get the glimpse of the decor and the wedding were which was designed by them.

A beautiful Indo-Chinese wedding!

Tamil - British Couple This was not a wedding, this beautiful couple traveled all the way from UK to get a glimpse of the South Indian Architecture, this was a Pre-wedding couple portrait session, some of the shots we took here won us an award in the Diamond portraits category, this was our third international award!

Multicultural doesn’t always mean wedding from 2 different countries, in a country like India which is extremely diverse or the most diverse culture in the whole world were traveling every 100 kilometers, the wedding culture will be completely different even a wedding of people from 2 different states decides to get married.

In the end, we are all different colours to compliment a single frame!