For Perth wedding, portrait, family and commercial photographers: a site that leads with the work you want more of, tells couples how a Kings Park, Rottnest or South West wedding works with you, and sends each enquiry in with the date and venue filled in. You see the draft before you pay anything.
A lot of Perth photography happens somewhere other than the metro area: on the island, in the hills, down south in wine country. Clients want to know early whether you'll go where they're going, what that adds to the price, and whether the spot they have in mind needs anyone's approval. The site can settle those three things before the first email.
Kings Park is the location many Perth couples name first, and the rules depend on how the day is booked. A ceremony booked with the park includes the photography permit; portraits there without a park ceremony need one applied for. One line on your site saying who applies and whether it's inside the package stops it turning into a surprise invoice.
Rottnest weddings mean a ferry crossing, gear carried across, and often a long day with no quick way home. If you shoot there, a short Rottnest section that sets out how you charge for the crossing, the extra hours and an overnight stay helps couples compare you fairly with photographers who leave it out.
Name what your packages cover from Joondalup to Mandurah and out to the Perth Hills, then list the trips you do often beyond that: Swan Valley wineries, York or New Norcia, and the Margaret River region. A couple marrying in Yallingup can then see the travel and accommodation cost on the page instead of waiting for a custom quote.
Family, newborn and pet sessions make popular gifts, especially around Mother's Day and Christmas. A voucher request form, or a small online store selling fixed sessions and prints from $799 for up to 25 products with one payment gateway, gives buyers something to do on the site other than send a message.
Date first, then the ceremony and reception venues, where they'd like portraits, the type of shoot and a rough budget. Knowing it's a Rottnest chapel or a Swan Valley winery in the first message lets you price travel and check approvals in one reply.
Perth offices, mining and resources firms, builders and hospitality venues book headshots, site photography and menu shoots. Give that work its own gallery and page: on-site or studio, how many people per hour, how the files can be used, and the turnaround for edited images. A form asking for headcount and the site address keeps those enquiries out of your wedding inbox.
In Kings Park and Botanic Garden, the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority says a ceremony booked at one of its venues includes the photography permit (opens in a new tab), while photographs only, with no ceremony in the park, need a separate wedding photography permit. Its filming and photography page (opens in a new tab) charges commercial shoots at a higher hourly rate than weddings, adds a non-refundable booking fee, and asks for proof of the approved booking to be carried on the day. Wedding photography isn't allowed on the Lotterywest Federation Walkway, the glass bridge, and the State War Memorial precinct needs written permission from RSLWA. Bold Park, run by the same authority, has its own commercial filming and photography application pack.
Beyond Kings Park, approval depends on who manages the land. On national parks and other land under the CALM Act, the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions requires a licence or lawful authority for stills or filming taken for commercial purposes (opens in a new tab), applied for through its online licensing system at least four weeks ahead, with at least $10 million of public liability cover. Its page doesn't single out weddings, so photographers who shoot in places such as Yanchep or the Margaret River area's national park land should check with the department. In Fremantle, the City says permission isn't needed for still photography unless it's for commercial purposes (opens in a new tab), and points port-area requests to Fremantle Ports.
In the city centre, DevelopmentWA manages Elizabeth Quay and Yagan Square. Its media capture application (opens in a new tab) applies to shoots that set up equipment or affect public access; hand-held shoots with fewer than five people, no tripods or lighting rigs, no drone and nothing blocking pedestrian or road access are exempt, while any drone use needs an application with the operator's licence and a safety analysis. For Rottnest, the ferry operators point couples to the Rottnest Island Authority for venue approvals (opens in a new tab), so link to the Authority rather than repeating its terms.
Drones need the same care here. Kings Park allows them only with a licensed operator, in approved spots, with approval sought at the time of booking; recreational flying isn't allowed. CASA also lists flying within 5.5 km of a controlled aerodrome among the operations that need a flight authorisation (opens in a new tab). If aerials are in your packages, say which accreditation you hold and that each flight depends on the location. Rather than copying fees or conditions that change, we'd link each agency's page from your locations section and keep your own wording to what you do: which spots you suggest, who books the permit and whether it's included.
We're a web design team in Adelaide, working with Perth businesses by phone and email; none of our current clients are in WA. Perth is 1.5 hours behind Adelaide, or 2.5 hours while South Australia is on daylight saving, so we keep calls to times that suit you and send drafts as a link you can check between shoots.
We haven't built a site for a photographer, and none of our clients are in Perth. Two image-heavy sites show the parts that carry over: a Brisbane dance school's filterable photo gallery, and a South Australian charter business that takes booking and gift voucher requests on one page.
A dance school on Brisbane's Bayside with 12 pages. Its photo gallery filters by program; for a photographer the filters would be weddings, families, newborns and commercial work, so each visitor sees only the sets they came for.
Visit the Qld Performing Arts site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis in SA. One page holds a catch photo gallery, a booking request form, gift voucher requests, an FAQ, customer reviews and a map. Swap the charters for sessions and it's close to a single-page site for a family or pet photographer selling gift vouchers.
Visit the Cape Fishing Charters site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
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$399
One page with your galleries, packages, the areas you travel to, a voucher request and a date-first enquiry form. Suits a newborn, pet or headshot specialist.
Our suggestion for most Perth photographers
$899
Home, a portfolio grouped by type of shoot, and a packages page covering Kings Park, Rottnest and South West travel, with the enquiry form.
$1,499
Pages for weddings, families, commercial work and destination shoots, plus locations, about, client information and enquiries.
We'd suggest it does. The park includes the permit when the ceremony is booked there and requires an application when it isn't, so a line such as 'we apply for the Kings Park permit and the fee is passed on at cost', in your own words, with a link to the park's page, answers the question before a couple asks. Changing that line later is a text edit covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
As its own section or page: the venues you know down south, a gallery from a South West wedding if you have one, and how travel and accommodation are charged. On the 8-page site at $1,499 the South West can have a full page; on the 3-page site at $899 it sits on the packages page next to Rottnest.
Yes. A voucher request form works on any of our sites. To take payment online, an online store starts at $799 for up to 25 products, which suits fixed sessions, vouchers and print sizes. For mini sessions with set time slots, we build booking and payment into a site, quoted per job, or link a scheduling tool you already use.
That's a question for your permit conditions and your client agreement, not for us. What we can do is show only the images you send us and link the relevant agency pages from your locations section. If you need to take a photo down later, that's a change covered by hosting.
By phone and email. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send a folder of high-resolution exports and your packages, we build the draft and share it as a link, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours, and we'll fit calls around the time difference.
Send us a link to your galleries or a folder of favourite images, your packages, and the places you travel to, from Kings Park to the South West. We'll quote it, build the draft, and you pay only once you approve it.
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