Wedding Photography

Some photographers fall into wedding photography. They think its easy… just buy a top end camera, turn up and click away. This is far from the case.  Wedding photos need to be done often in difficult circumstances.  Location shoots are a big rush, lighting is often poor in reception halls…. there are moments that need capturing that can’t be repeated so in some ways your wedding photographer needs to be part action photographer, part fashion photographer.

That’s me! I love what I do, and work hard to ensure I capture a wedding literally “in the best possible light”. Wedding photography was not a fall back option for me, it was my desired genre as a wedding photographer and I put everything into it.

Look, you could save a few dollars by getting a friend with an SLR to do a cheap wedding shoot for you… but i highly recommend you reconsider this.  Wedding photography takes experience, practice and dedication to get it right – choose Nova and know its going to work out.

Location Scouting for your Melbourne Wedding Day Shoot

Finding an awesome place for your wedding day photoshoot is important.  Look, we are good enough to make almost any place LOOK magical but by taking you to a magical place for your wedding day photo shoot… you will FEEL magical whilst the camera is working and this will show in the photos.  There are lots of great places to do wedding photo shoots in Melbourne… the problem is Melbourne is a big place and we need to find one close to where your reception or ceremony is being held.  Why?

Look, your wedding day is your big day.  You are the most important.  But you are inviting your friends and family to share it and you want them to remember it fondly.  You don’t want them to be saying down the track.  ”Oh their wedding was OK… it would even have been GREAT but they took 3 hours to get from the service to the reception – something about a photo shoot being done in the hills…. Uncle Barry got really drunk at the bar and we all starving by the time they bride and groom arrived.”

For your guests to enjoy your wedding, we need to keep them waiting for as little time as possible.  You don’t want to rush through your photo shoot – we will need time to ensure we get all the shots you might want… but its not a great plan traveling to far flung locations unless there is no alternative.”  That’s where we come in.  At Nova Photography, we spend a lot of time scouting the best area of Melbourne for photo shoots, and no matter where your reception is to be held, we likely know of a good place.  If we don’t?  As soon as you book us in, we’ll go hunting for one.  Of course if you have a location in mind tell us your ideas too!

Either way, we’ll make sure your wedding day photo shoot is shot in a magical location and Uncle Barry will still be in good shape when you arrive for the reception.

Pre Wedding Shoots

Your wedding day is the big day but capturing only your wedding day photographically and in video is some ways like just capturing the moment a marathon runner crosses the finish line.  Oh its the most exciting and important part… but there is so much that happens before the wedding. We can capture all sorts of pre wedding events, the bride getting ready, hens and buck nights(or not if you think such events need to be kept private!) If you want more than just the final product captured, we can help make that happen too.

Wedding Videos

A picture may paint a thousand words, but a video sings ten thousand. No Wedding would be complete without a video capture of the events. We can shoot, edit and produce a high quality wedding video, add music as required, even record the pre wedding preparations, the jitters, the joy, the last minute rush – all the pleasure and panic that goes into the big day for you to look back on and relive. Check out our wedding video page for more information.

So don’t just think photography when you think Nova, think Melbourne Wedding Videography as welll