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 · AustraliaCanberra, Australian Capital TerritoryBlue Mountains, New South WalesCentral Coast, New South WalesHunter Valley, New South WalesLithgow, New South WalesMurrumbateman / Canberra District, New South WalesSouth Coast / Jervis Bay, New South WalesSouthern Highlands / Bowral, New South WalesSydney, New South Wales
Paul Golbach has photographed weddings for almost ten years from a base in Sydney, and now shoots full-time across Australia and Europe. Before the camera he spent over a decade running his own businesses in the fitness industry, and he credits that with the calm under pressure and the patience he brings to a wedding day.
He describes his approach as sitting at the intersection of editorial artistry and authentic documentary storytelling, drawn to the tension between the composed elegance of a lit portrait and the raw emotion of a moment nobody else saw. He works with a calm, observational presence, guiding gently when it helps and stepping back when it does not. Thirty-five millimetre film is part of the offering, shot on Portra 400 and Ilford HP5 and scanned alongside the digital gallery.
Couples across Sydney and the surrounding regions — the Blue Mountains and out to Lithgow and Rydal, the Hunter Valley, the Southern Highlands, the South Coast, the Central Coast and Canberra — and couples marrying in Italy, where he takes a small number of European weddings each summer.
Collections start at $4,500 for Australian weddings and most couples invest around $6,000, with a minimum of six hours of coverage. Every collection includes all images edited and colour-corrected, a password-protected online gallery with web-size and high-resolution files, a preview gallery within 48 hours of the day, a customised slideshow set to music, a wedding guide and a pre-wedding meet and greet. Full galleries arrive in four to six weeks. A deposit and a signed agreement secure the date, and enquiries are by email — no phone number is published.
A preview gallery within 48 hours of the wedding, which is unusually fast, and the option of a one-week turnaround for the full gallery.
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