COVID-19 and Event Videography in Melbourne

With Melbourne is back and roaring again, many people and business are looking to book in corporate videography in Melbourne or party photographers in Melbourne given COVID-19 is now with 30 days of no new cases or deaths.

Per, City of Melbourne's guidelines, in order to Moment 2 Moment to provide your event, birthday or wedding with photography or videography, the following must be done in order to go ahead.

1. The event site must be designed to ensure there is 4 square metres of available floor space per person with a physical distance least 1.5 metres maintained from others.

2. Maintain the number of attendees permitted as per current Victorian Government restrictions in place at the time of the event

3. Face masks are mandatory for indoors and on public transport – and outdoors where you can’t physically distance within Melbourne itself. All attendees are required to have a face mask with them at all times.

4. Up to 50 people can gather outdoors from any number of households (excluding infants under 12 months).

5. Any businesses open & have staff on site, must have a COVIDSafe plan in place.

6. A maximum of 150 people per space subject to the density quotient, can be in indoor areas (seated and non-seated), including cinemas, small theatres and small galleries.

Full regulations and laws regarding events (which include birthdays, corporate events & weddings can be found here https://creative.vic.gov.au/news/2020/coronavirus-update)

Should you wish to book in videography for an upcoming event, event photography or birthday photo shoot in Melbourne, please contact us on 0410737457 or email info@moment2moment.com.au with your enquiry today.

Make it Snap! 3 Tips for Flawless Birthday Photography

Planning a birthday for yourself or a loved one involves a thousand small decisions, and remembering to hire the birthday photographer can sometimes be an afterthought.

Whilst birthday photography isn’t logistically challenging, there are a few factors that are outside the photographers control that can impact the quality of the photos they provide.

Here are three tips from Moment 2 Moment Event Photography, that can help boost the WOW factor of your birthday photo album.

1 - Many hands make light work at your birthday party

Aside from using a flash, the photographer will utilise ambient environmental lighting from sources like chandeliers, candles, disco lights, LED party lights, bonfires & the humble light bulb.

However, some venues & environments lack these lights which result in the photographer over utilising their flash - which can hurt the ability to showcase the venue in which the party is held in. Not a game breaker, but in 10 years time when you are looking at a memory reminder on Facebook, seeing what the venue looked like can help your memory come flooding back.

If you can arrange with the venue to switch on lights & provide your photographer with the permission to change them throughout the night, you’ll find that the photos you receive will be more varied & diverse, as well as having better quality background details. Furthermore, the images you’ll receive will be far better as the photographer doesn’t have to compensate with brighter flashes (blinding your patrons), higher ISO’ levels (grainier photos) or wider apertures (too much blur & difficult to focus)

2 - Tell your Birthday Photographer who your special guests are

Everyone’s welcome at a party, but the VIPs are the VIP’s for a reason - because you love them slightly more. We can take for granted who our family & close friends are, and so can your photographer.

Nothing is worse than receiving a photo album with more photos of a mate your cousin invited to the party, than of your Uncle who flew in from South Africa to celebrate your birthday plans.

Give your photographer a loose list of the people who are nearest & dearest to you (or point them out!), and you’ll see the birthday photo album that you really want to see.

3 - Itinerary of the Birthday Celebrations

Can you imagine viewing all the photos in your birthday photo album and seeing none of your mum shedding a tear as your dad gives a speech on how proud he is of you?

Birthday celebrations bring out the rare & uncommon emotions in your family and friends, which is why it’s important for the birthday party photographer to be ready to capture them at the exact moment they happen.

Given that no birthday is complete without speeches, gifts and cake - It’s super crucial to your birthday party photographer to have an itinerary (or run sheet) of the birthday celebrations to achieve this end.

Even a loose bullet point list of what is happening, at what time, can help open up the lines of communication so that your photographer of choice knows what is happening at the right times.