For Sydney wedding, family, headshot and brand photographers: a site that shows the right gallery to the right client, says plainly where you shoot and who sorts the location permit, and sends enquiries with the date and place already filled in. You pay nothing until you approve the draft.
Sydney couples and families often arrive with a spot already in mind: the harbour, a garden, a beach, a park out west. Many of the best-known places are run by a state agency or trust that charges for professional shoots, so a good photography site answers two questions early. Will you shoot there, and who arranges the permission?
List the places you know well and add one plain line to each: whether a permit applies, whether you or the client books it, and whether the fee sits inside your package or on top. Couples comparing quotes notice when one photographer has quietly left a garden permit out and another has included it.
Date first, then the ceremony venue and where they'd like portraits taken, the type of shoot and a rough budget. With the location in the first message, you can check the time limit, hours and any booked-out areas before you reply, rather than finding out a week later that the spot they love is closed for an event.
A Sydney photographer might cover the inner city one weekend and a winery in the Hunter Valley, a lodge in the Blue Mountains or a homestead in the Southern Highlands the next. Name the areas included in your packages, then set out how travel and any overnight stay are charged beyond them, so a couple getting married two hours away knows before they ask.
Drone coverage is restricted across much of Sydney, from the harbour itself to the Greater Sydney Parklands sites out west. If aerials are part of your packages, the site should say which accreditation you hold and that flights depend on the location and approvals, so nobody books you expecting a drone shot over Circular Quay.
Corporate clients in the CBD, North Sydney or Parramatta want different things from a couple: on-site or studio, how many people per hour, turnaround for edited files and how the images can be used. A separate page with those answers, and a form asking for headcount and office address, keeps those enquiries apart from your wedding inbox.
If you'd like more elopements and fewer large weddings, or more brand work and fewer family sessions, the galleries can lead with that work. Each gallery uses images resized for phones and loaded as the visitor scrolls, from the high-resolution exports you send us.
The places Sydney clients ask for are managed by several different bodies, and each runs its own permit. The Botanic Gardens of Sydney sell a two-hour wedding and engagement photography permit (opens in a new tab) for the Royal Botanic Garden and The Domain, the Australian Botanic Garden at Mount Annan and the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mount Tomah, for shoots between 8am and 5pm. At the Royal Botanic Garden it doesn't cover indoor venues such as The Calyx, Palm House or Lion Gate Lodge, and a shoot running past closing moves across to The Domain. Centennial Parklands has its own two-hour permit (opens in a new tab), which isn't needed if the ceremony is booked with the Parklands. Out west, Greater Sydney Parklands says all wedding photography needs a permit (opens in a new tab) in Parramatta Park and Western Sydney Parklands, while Sydney Olympic Park issues a day permit (opens in a new tab) for celebrations and portraits photographed as a business, from sunrise to sunset, for groups of up to 12.
Around the harbour, Place Management NSW issues filming and photography permits (opens in a new tab) for The Rocks and the Circular Quay promenades, Darling Harbour, The Goods Line, Ballast Point Park and several Pyrmont foreshore parks, and asks applicants to hold at least $20 million of public liability cover. In national parks, including Sydney Harbour National Park, Royal National Park and Ku-ring-gai Chase, the National Parks and Wildlife Service requires approval for commercial photography (opens in a new tab); wedding photography generally fits its streamlined small-scale category, which allows one camera operator and one assistant and no drones.
None of this needs reciting on your website, and the rules and fees change, so we'd link to each agency's page rather than copy its terms. What helps is being clear about your own process: which locations you suggest, whether your package includes the permit, and how much notice you need to arrange one. That one line per location saves a round of emails with every couple who has their heart set on the Botanic Garden or Mrs Macquarie's Chair.
Aerial work needs the same care. CASA lists Sydney Harbour and surrounding areas (opens in a new tab) (restricted airspace R407 A/B), and flying within 5.5 km of a controlled aerodrome such as Sydney Airport, among the operations that need a flight authorisation. Greater Sydney Parklands bans recreational drones on its land and requires approval, an operator's certificate, a pilot licence and $20 million of cover for commercial flights (opens in a new tab), and says drone filming in Parramatta Park is generally not permitted. Place Management NSW generally doesn't allow drones in the areas it manages. If you offer aerials, the site should say where they're possible and on what basis.
For brand and commercial photographers who cast children, NSW has a separate rule: the Office of the Children's Guardian says anyone who employs children under 16 for still photography or modelling must hold an authority to employ children (opens in a new tab). We don't advise on it; the official page is the place to check. We're a web design team in Adelaide working with Sydney businesses by phone and email, which suits photographers who spend weekends on shoots: send us your galleries and packages, and the draft comes back as a link you can look through between edits.
We haven't built a photographer's site yet. Two NSW clients come closest: a creative portfolio built around samples of the work, and a Sydney practice whose priced packages each open an online booking.
A voiceover artist in NSW whose one-page site leads with playable demo reels, then her studio and an enquiry form that asks what the project is. Swap the reels for a wedding set, a family set and a headshot set and a single-specialty photographer has a ready outline.
Visit the Fiona Dixon site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A Sydney family law dispute resolution practice. Fixed-price packages each lead into a booking page, with service pages, FAQs and a multi-step intake form. A headshot photographer selling set sessions to Sydney offices could use the same packages-then-booking layout.
Visit the Resolve Forward site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“Salem created a sleek, professional website for www.resolveforward.com.au with an intuitive and easy-to-use bookings page.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
One scrolling page with a portfolio, your packages, the areas you cover and a date-first enquiry form. Suits a headshot, newborn or elopement specialist.
Our suggestion for most Sydney photographers
$899
A home page, a portfolio grouped by type of shoot, and a packages page with your Sydney locations, permit notes, travel charges and the enquiry form.
$1,499
Separate pages for weddings, families, headshots and brand work, a locations page, an about page, client information and enquiries.
We'd suggest yes. Places such as the Royal Botanic Garden, Centennial Park and Sydney Olympic Park each require a permit for professional photography, and the fees change, so rather than printing fees we usually add a line such as 'permit fees for paid locations are extra' or 'we book and include one location permit', in your words, with a link to the agency's own page. Updating that wording later is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
You can show any images you're entitled to use. The care is in the offer: Sydney Harbour is restricted airspace under CASA, and the parklands and harbour precincts have their own drone rules. If aerials are in your packages, say which accreditation you hold and that flights depend on the location and approvals. You supply that wording and we place it next to the packages it applies to.
With a short section on each region you travel to: the venues or areas you know, galleries from weddings there if you have them, and how travel and accommodation are 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.
Yes. We build booking and payment into a site, quoted per job, so an office manager can choose a date and pay for a set number of people. If you already schedule through a tool such as Calendly, or your studio software, we can link that instead.
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 Sydney businesses. You send a folder of exported images and your packages, we build the draft, and you pay only after you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us a link to your galleries or a folder of favourite images, your packages and the Sydney locations you like to work in. We'll quote it, build the draft, and you pay only once you approve it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au