Photography, Film & Creative Website Design
For photographers, videographers, film studios, design studios, agencies and PR firms whose work already sells itself once someone can actually see it.
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Overview
The work is the product. The site decides whether anyone waits to see it.
Most people who land on a creative site have already seen the work somewhere else: a reel in their feed, a carousel a friend sent, a tagged frame, a credit at the end of a spot. They arrive with two questions, and neither of them is about your philosophy. Are you free, and roughly what does this cost. Most photography and production sites answer neither, and open instead with a full-bleed slider that takes four seconds to paint its first frame.
Image and video weight is the engineering problem underneath all of it. A gallery of sixty exports straight out of Lightroom, a hero reel autoplaying at 1080p, and a third-party player that loads its own scripts before your first frame are each defensible alone and fatal together. Our website design work for this vertical starts at the file itself: modern formats, per-breakpoint crops, a poster frame you would have chosen yourself, and lazy loading that never leaves a grey rectangle where a photograph should be.
Then the site has to work as a business tool and not just a lookbook. Enquiries routed into the CRM you already run your bookings from, usage and licensing explained before the call so nobody is surprised by a buyout, and a project structure search engines can actually index. It sits alongside the rest of our industry work, and it is the one where a single oversized JPEG can undo the entire build.
What makes this hard
What makes creative sites harder than they look
Nothing here is a design problem in isolation. Each one is a trade between how good the work looks and whether the page arrives in time to be judged, which is why technical SEO and art direction have to be decided in the same room.
Judged on the first frame
Nobody reads your about page before deciding whether they like the work. The strongest image you own has to be on screen at full quality before the rest of the page has finished loading, which means it cannot be the fourth slide in a carousel.
Portfolios that fight their own weight
A sixty-image gallery exported at 4000px ships more data than most online stores. Format, compression and loading order decide whether a client sees your set or a spinner.
Video that holds the page hostage
Self-hosted MP4s, embedded players and sound-on autoplay each carry a cost the rest of the page pays. Deferred players, muted playback and a chosen poster frame keep a reel on the homepage without stalling everything behind it.
The rate card nobody wants to publish
Naming a day rate feels like handing over your negotiating position, and naming nothing sends the enquiry to the studio that did. A starting figure with the variables that move it, usage, crew, days, deliverables, filters the tyre-kickers without capping what you can charge.
Enquiry forms that ask for everything
Date, location, deliverables, usage territory, budget, timeline and how they found you is a form that converts strangers into nobody. Take the date and the shape of the job, and get the rest on the call.
Work that gets credited to someone else
Frames get scraped, re-cropped and reposted with no link back, and the reposter often outranks the person who shot it. Descriptive filenames, real alt text, image and video structured data and a licensing page give search engines a reason to attribute the work to you.
How we work
How we build for studios, shooters and creative teams
We start from a weight budget, not a moodboard. Every template gets a ceiling: what the homepage may spend on its hero, what a project page may spend before the first scroll, what a full gallery may load up front versus on demand. Design decisions then get made against that number instead of discovered at launch, and the site stays fast on the hotel wifi where half of your enquiries are actually written.
The path from a frame someone likes to a message in your inbox is the part we treat as a system, not a footer. That is conversion work applied to a creative sell: a visible availability or date check, a pricing signal that pre-qualifies before anyone types, a short form that posts into HoneyBook, Dubsado, Táve or Studio Ninja, and a reply path that does not depend on you seeing an email between setups.
If your current site is a template you have outgrown, a Squarespace or Adobe Portfolio build that cannot carry a project page, or a custom site from an old collaborator that nobody can update, a redesign keeps the URLs your published credits and press links already point at. Old gallery and project addresses get redirected rather than dropped, because a dead link in a magazine credit is not something you get to fix later.
What's included
What we build for photography, film and creative studios
The list below is what actually gets specified on a creative build, from the export pipeline through to the enquiry that lands in your booking system.
The process
How the project runs
Five stages, and the first one is an edit of the work rather than a wireframe.
Edit the portfolio
We go through the work with you and decide which projects earn a page of their own, which frames carry them, and what has to come out so your strongest images stop competing with your merely good ones.
Set the load budget
Each template gets a weight ceiling before anything is designed. Hero, project page and full gallery are budgeted separately, so nobody has to argue about compression after the layout is signed off.
Design around your aspect ratios
Layouts are built for the shapes you actually shoot: portrait, panorama, 16:9 stills, vertical video. Nothing gets centre-cropped into a template grid it was never framed for.
Wire the enquiry path
Date check, pricing signal and a short form, connected to your CRM and tested on a phone on a weak connection. We confirm the auto-reply and the notification both arrive before launch.
Launch, redirect and hand over
Old gallery and project URLs are redirected, images and videos are checked for indexing, and you get a way to publish a new project yourself without waiting on a developer or breaking the page weight.
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FAQ
Questions photographers and studios ask us
Can a site full of high-resolution images ever be fast?
Should I put prices on the site, or does that lose me negotiating room?
My work lives on Instagram and Vimeo. Do I still need a website?
How do I stop my images being used without credit?
I shoot both weddings and commercial work. One site or two?
Most of my clients are brands and agencies. Does local search still matter?
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