Rashmitha in a gold-worked bridal saree, photographed in natural window light
Wedding Photography & Cinematography

We Capture

light & feeling

Candid frames, cinematic films and portraits shot at 1/200 · f/1.8 · golden hour

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The Studio

Wedding Photographers & Filmmakers

Dhruva Captures is a wedding photography and cinematography studio based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. We shoot documentary-style — available light first, minimal direction, and a quiet presence that lets the day unfold exactly as it should.

Every frame is composed in camera and finished by hand: warm, filmic grading, true skin tones and blacks that hold their depth. Two lead shooters, prime lenses, and a second cinema unit on every wedding.

200+
Weddings shot
1/8000
Fastest frame
f/1.2
Widest prime
Rashmitha and Ullas beside a vintage car after their ceremony
Chirasmitha and Akhil during their muhurtham ritual, captured candidly in natural light
Our Approach

Shot candidly, lit honestly

We work the room the way a photojournalist would — long lenses from a distance, wide primes when the emotion is close, and off-camera light only when the room asks for it. No stiff line-ups, no repeated takes: the frames you keep are the ones that actually happened.

In the Edit

Colour grading with a filmic soul

Every select is culled, retouched and graded in-house against a calibrated reference. Warm highlights, gently rolled blacks and a subtle halation borrowed from 35mm stock — a look that stays beautiful decades after the day itself.

Colour grading suite with wedding footage on calibrated monitors
Marigold-draped mandap lit for an evening ceremony
Destination Shoots

We travel with the whole kit

Palace courtyards, beach mandaps, mountain elopements — our crews fly with full prime kits, cinema bodies, drones and low-light rigs, so nothing about the location limits the frame.

Recent Shoots

Straight off the card

Chirasmitha & Akhil — Muhurtham photographed by Dhruva Captures
Muhurtham

Chirasmitha & Akhil

Chirasmitha & Akhil — Reception photographed by Dhruva Captures
Reception

Chirasmitha & Akhil

Gagana & Akash — Pre-Wedding photographed by Dhruva Captures
Pre-Wedding

Gagana & Akash

Cinema camera on a tripod at a marigold-decorated venue

Cinema bodies, prime glass, and a second unit on every wedding.

What we shoot

Photography and film coverage, from the first look to the final album

Candid Photography

Unposed, in-the-moment frames — laughter, tears and glances shot as they happen.

Cinematic Films

Story-led wedding films cut to music, graded for a warm, filmic finish.

Pre-Wedding Shoots

Location-scouted portrait sessions that capture the two of you before the vows.

Portrait & Bridal

Studio and natural-light bridal portraiture with careful lighting and detail work.

Destination Coverage

Full travel-ready crews with drone and low-light coverage anywhere you celebrate.

Albums & Post

Hand-retouched selects, fine-art albums and colour grading delivered end to end.

Before you book

The things couples ask us first

Rashmitha and Ullas walking a misty hillside during their pre-wedding shoot

Let us photograph

your story