Ayyappa Digital Studio

If you are walking down Station Road in Tandur, you’ll find us at Ayyappa Digital Studio. We are inside the Shant Mahal Complex, shop number 3-6-100. It’s a busy part of the Ranga Reddy district and there are always people moving about outside. We spend our days taking photos of people. Sometimes it’s for an ID card or a wedding, and other times people just want a nice picture of their family. The studio isn't huge, but we have enough space for the camera and the backdrops. We’ve seen a lot of changes in Tandur over the years. We used to use different equipment, but now everything is digital. It’s faster, but you still have to know what you’re doing to make a photo look right. The shop gets a bit cramped when a big group comes in all at once. We just tell them to wait a minute while we get things ready. We don't have a big marketing plan or anything. We just put the sign out on the road and people come in when they need a photo taken. It’s a good way to meet the people who live around here. Most of our customers are just regular folks from the neighborhood or people getting off the train at the station. We just try to do a decent job so they come back next time. The lighting in the shop is something we are always messing with to get it just right for the pictures.