A Shot Above The Rest Photography
A Shot Above The Rest is the Canberra studio of Melissa Flanagan, named ACT Wedding Photographer of the Year in 2024 and 2025 and drawing on more than twenty years…
Wedding Photographers · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · By appointment
A Canberra wedding photographer based in the city’s south, working across the ACT and the regions around it. The pitch is unusually plain-spoken: no stiff posing, no awkward set pieces, and a photographer who behaves like a third wheel rather than a director. Weddings sit alongside a substantial business and branding practice, and both halves are run with the same calm.
She describes mixing traditional and modern photography with a fresh, clean style, focusing on candid moments while still knowing how to pose couples who feel awkward in front of a camera. She works in both natural and artificial light and edits with what she calls a timeless touch, so the images should not date. The result is a mix of candid coverage and a few gently guided moments.
Camera-shy couples, and anyone who wants to be photographed rather than posed. The portfolio moves comfortably between a rain-soaked country road, a vineyard, a lakeside veil shot and a full Punjabi ceremony, so it suits couples planning something outside the standard template as readily as a classic Canberra wedding. She states plainly that she welcomes LGBTIQ+ weddings.
Wedding packages start at $3,850 for five hours, with smaller elopement packages available. Every package includes high-resolution edited images in an online gallery, with albums, prints and a second photographer offered as options. She suggests six hours as the usual sweet spot, and notes that most couples book twelve to eighteen months ahead, particularly for spring and autumn dates.
A genuinely two-sided practice. The same photographer who shoots weddings also runs a business headshot and branding studio, which is why the wedding work carries a directorial confidence that purely documentary shooters often avoid — she is used to making self-conscious people look at ease on demand, and says so as the core of her offer.
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