Websites for wedding, family, portrait and commercial photographers that show your work at its best on a phone, set out your packages plainly, and deliver enquiries with the date, location and type of shoot already filled in.
People shortlist a photographer on the pictures, then decide whether to enquire on the practical details. A couple planning a wedding wants to know if you're free on their date and roughly what you cost. A marketing coordinator booking staff headshots wants a turnaround time and something they can get a quote approved with. The portfolio earns the shortlist; the rest of the site has to answer the questions that follow without a long email thread.
We export each photo at several widths in WebP, so a phone downloads a phone-sized file while a large monitor gets a crisp one, and images further down a gallery load only as the visitor scrolls to them. You send us high-resolution exports and we do the resizing. Putting full-size camera files straight onto a page is a common reason portfolio sites drag on mobile data.
Weddings, elopements, families, newborns, corporate headshots, products, food and real estate: a visitor should reach only the work they care about. For weddings, think about one complete day per gallery alongside a highlights set, so couples see how you handle a dim reception and the family group shots, not only golden hour. For commercial clients, a set per brief shows you can hold a consistent look across a whole series.
Hours of coverage, the number of edited images, how and when photos are delivered, albums or prints, a second shooter, and any travel charge beyond a set distance. Set out side by side with a starting price, packages let people rule themselves in before they write. If you'd rather quote every job, say what changes the price so the enquiry starts in the right range.
For weddings and events the date settles everything else, so the form asks for it first, then the venue or location, the type of shoot, approximate guest numbers or headcount, a budget range and how they found you. If you run your studio through a system such as Studio Ninja or Dubsado, the Enquire button can open its form instead, so contracts and deposit invoices stay where they are now.
For seasonal mini sessions or a set day of staff headshots, a time-slot booking that takes payment up front saves a lot of back-and-forth. We build booking and payment systems into the site, quoted per job, or link the scheduling tool you already use.
If you deliver through a gallery platform such as Pixieset, Pic-Time or ShootProof, a Client galleries link in the menu sends past clients straight there. If you sell prints or wall art yourself, an online store can list sizes and papers and take payment; ours start at $799 for up to 25 products with one payment gateway.
The Australian Institute of Professional Photography closed in November 2021, so an old AIPP badge is best taken down; name an association only if you're a current member. For aerial work, CASA requires drones flown for business to be registered, and the operator to hold either an operator accreditation (enough for drones of 2 kg or less flown under the standard conditions) or a remote pilot licence used under a business's operator's certificate, so say which you have. Public liability cover, and a Working with Children Check if you photograph school or kids' sessions, belong here too.
None of the 14 client sites in our portfolio belongs to a photographer. The nearest are two image-led sites: a voiceover artist's one-page portfolio built around her demo reels, and a dance school with a photo gallery visitors can filter. Below them is a Google review from Johannah Whilding on how her finished site turned out.
An Australian voiceover artist recording from a home studio in NSW. Her single-page site puts four playable demo reels first, then about and studio sections, and the contact form asks what kind of project the enquiry is for. A photographer with one main specialty could use the same shape, with galleries where the reels are.
Visit the Fiona Dixon site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A dance school on Brisbane's Bayside. Among its 12 pages is a photo gallery visitors can filter, here by program; on a photographer's site the filters would be weddings, families or commercial work. It also has a class timetable, FAQs and an online enrolment form.
Visit the Qld Performing Arts site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“My website is exactly how I wanted. I highly recommend Salem for any business wanting a professional website without the bull.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
For a specialist, such as a headshot or newborn photographer: a portfolio, packages, an about section, a date-first enquiry form and a client gallery link.
Our suggestion for most photographers
$899
A home page, a portfolio page with galleries grouped by type of shoot, and a packages page with the enquiry form and your FAQs.
$1,499
For photographers working across several genres: a page each for weddings, families, commercial work and mini sessions, plus about, packages, client information and enquiries.
Check your contract first. Under the Copyright Act, photos a client commissions and pays for a private or domestic purpose, such as a wedding or a family portrait, belong to the client unless a written agreement says otherwise, while copyright in commercial commissions generally stays with the photographer. The Arts Law Centre (opens in a new tab) recommends written agreements and model releases, so make sure yours covers showing the images on your website. We put up only the photos you send us, and taking one down later is a change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
It shouldn't be, as long as the images are prepared properly. We don't put your original files on the page: each photo is resized to the widths it's actually shown at, converted to WebP and loaded only when the visitor scrolls near it. Send the highest-quality JPEG exports you have and we'll handle the rest.
Yes. We can build booking and online payment into your site, quoted per job, and it suits mini sessions and fixed-price headshots well. For weddings, where a contract usually comes before the deposit, it often works better to send both from your studio software and have the site link to its enquiry form.
Disabling right-click stops very little, since anyone can take a screenshot, and it gets in the way of visitors who just want to open an image larger. What does limit misuse is showing web-sized files rather than print-resolution ones, which is how we prepare every image anyway. A small, discreet watermark is your call; a large one across the frame mostly distracts from the work.
A photographer with one specialty, such as headshots or newborns, can do well with the one-page site at $399. Most photographers suit the 3-page site at $899 because the portfolio and the packages each get a page. If you shoot weddings, families and commercial work and want each to have its own page, the 8-page site at $1,499 fits.
Yes. We're an Adelaide team working with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. We also have pages on photography websites in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
Send us a link to your current galleries or a folder of favourite images, plus your packages. We'll quote it and build the draft, and you only pay once you're happy with it.
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