For Brisbane wedding, family, portrait and commercial photographers: a portfolio that loads quickly on a phone, packages laid out so they can be compared, mini-session dates people can book, and an enquiry form that asks for the date, the suburb or venue and the kind of shoot. No deposit; you pay once you approve the draft.
People booking a photographer in Brisbane tend to have a picture in their head already: the river at Kangaroo Point, the lawns at New Farm Park, the lookout at Mount Coot-tha, or their own backyard. Your site's job is to show you've worked somewhere like that, say what's included, and make the first message useful.
Weddings, families and newborns, headshots, brand and commercial work, each as its own gallery with a short line on what the session involves. We take the high-resolution exports you send, resize them for phones and load them as the visitor scrolls, so a gallery of forty images doesn't stall on a train out of Roma Street.
In Brisbane the permit question usually turns on how you shoot rather than where: a couple and a camera in a council park is treated differently from a styled set-up with props or a roped-off area. One plain line per location, in your words, saying whether anything needs booking and who books it, answers the question before it's asked.
Seasonal minis, such as sessions under the jacarandas and poincianas that Council mentions at New Farm Park, sell on dates and times. A page listing each date, the location, session length and what's delivered lets families pick a slot. We can build booking and payment into the site, quoted per job, or link the scheduling tool you already use.
Ask for the date, the ceremony venue or suburb, the type of shoot, the number of people and a rough budget. A Moreton Bay family session, a Scenic Rim wedding and a Fortitude Valley product shoot need different replies, and the form can route each to the right package so your answer starts with a price.
Many Brisbane photographers also cover the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Ipswich and the Redlands. Say which areas sit inside your packages and how travel beyond them is charged. Each of those areas has its own council with its own park rules, so a separate note for each region keeps your Brisbane notes accurate.
If drone coverage is part of what you sell, say which CASA accreditation you hold and that flights in public places depend on approval. Brisbane City Council asks for a permit before drones are flown in public areas, so a couple shouldn't book you expecting an aerial over the Story Bridge unless you've planned for it.
If you've been shortlisted in a photography award or belong to a professional body, a short list with the year beside each entry tells people you're active. Old badges with no dates do the opposite, so we keep the list easy for you to update through the monthly hosting.
Brisbane City Council regulates commercial still photography on its land through its filming and photography approval (opens in a new tab). For weddings, Council says a permit applies when the shoot uses a Council facility or venue, is used to promote a photography business, or needs exclusive use of a park area or a bookable space, while wedding photography without props or exclusive use of any section of a park is listed as exempt. Low-impact shoots are to be applied for at least 5 working days ahead, applicants need at least $20 million of public liability cover, and anyone unsure can ring 133 BNE and ask for a Filming Liaison Officer. Because the answer turns on how you shoot, a single line per location on your site works better than a blanket statement.
Several of the places clients ask for aren't run by Council at all. Council's page names Roma Street Parkland, South Bank Parklands, Queensland Rail stations and Queen's Gardens as venues to contact directly. South Bank Corporation handles filming and photography applications (opens in a new tab) for the South Bank precinct through its own form. Council parks such as New Farm Park (opens in a new tab), which Council describes as one of Brisbane's most popular parks for weddings, and the lawns at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha (opens in a new tab) also have sites couples book for ceremonies, and a booked site is exactly the kind of bookable space Council's rules mention.
Mini-session days are where photographers most often need to check. Council's commercial activity in a park (opens in a new tab) application lists photography or filming among the activities that may count as commercial activity, which needs permission before it runs, again with $20 million of public liability cover. We don't give advice on whether your set-up needs it; Council's pages and its liaison officers are the place to confirm. What the website can do is state plainly that the location is arranged, so families booking a jacaranda slot aren't left wondering.
For aerials, Council's approval page asks drone operators for a site map showing launch and landing areas, a risk assessment, public liability cover and their CASA accreditation documents. CASA's own flight authorisation rules (opens in a new tab) set out when a flight needs CASA's approval on top of Council's permit, so check them before promising aerials anywhere near Brisbane Airport. Council's rules stop at the city boundary, so shoots in Moreton Bay, Logan, Redland or Ipswich follow those councils' policies.
Council also runs the Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards (opens in a new tab), open to anyone who lives, works or studies in Brisbane, with winning images exhibited at the Museum of Brisbane in City Hall; an entry or a win there belongs on your about page with the year. We're a web design team in Adelaide working with Brisbane businesses by phone and email, and we already look after a Bayside client. Send us your favourite exports and your package list, and the draft comes back as a link you can check between shoots.
We haven't built a site for a photographer yet. These two Queensland clients are the closest match: one is a Brisbane business whose site includes a filterable photo gallery, the other leads with a swipeable gallery of finished jobs.
A dance school at Thorneside on Brisbane's Bayside. Its 12-page site has a page for each program, a weekly timetable, an online enrolment form and a photo gallery visitors can filter by category. The same filter could sort a photographer's work into weddings, families and commercial shoots on one page.
Visit the Qld Performing Arts site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A Queensland plumber and gas fitter with a single-page site whose 13-photo project gallery swipes on a phone, followed by testimonials and a protected contact form. For a newborn or headshot specialist, that gallery-first, single-page layout is a tidy starting point at $399.
Visit the M.J. Debney site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“They were very helpful and envisioned exactly what I was wanting for my website. They created the site very promptly and cost efficient.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
A single page: a short portfolio, your packages, the regions you cover and an enquiry form. Enough for a headshot, newborn or pet photographer with one main service.
Where most Brisbane photographers start
$899
Home, a portfolio split by type of shoot, and a packages page that carries your location notes, travel charges by region and the enquiry form.
$1,499
Room for weddings, families, headshots and commercial work on their own pages, plus mini sessions, locations, about and contact.
It depends on how you shoot. Brisbane City Council lists wedding photography without props or exclusive use of part of a park as exempt, and says a permit applies when you use a Council venue, need exclusive use or a bookable space, or use the shoot to promote your business. Council's filming and photography page and its liaison officers on 133 BNE can confirm your situation. We just make sure your site describes your process accurately, in your words.
Yes. We build booking and payment into a site, quoted per job, so a family can choose a time slot and pay for it. If you already take bookings through a tool such as Calendly or your studio software, we can link that instead. Council lists photography among the activities that may count as commercial activity in a park, which needs permission, so it's worth confirming the location before the dates go live.
Neither is run by Brisbane City Council: South Bank Corporation takes photography applications for the South Bank precinct, and Council directs Roma Street Parkland enquiries to its own managers. We'd suggest a line on each saying whether you arrange access and how much notice you need, with a link to the manager's page rather than copying their terms, which can change.
With a short section per region: the venues or beaches you know, a gallery from there if you have one, and how travel is charged. On the 8-page site at $1,499 each region can have its own page; on the 3-page site at $899 they sit together on the packages page.
Everything runs by phone and email. We're a web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including a Brisbane Bayside business. You send your images, packages and words, we build the draft, and you pay only once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us a link to your current galleries or a folder of your best exports, your package list and the places around Brisbane you like to shoot. We'll quote it, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au