Portfolio sites built around the work.
Most photographer websites are template builds — Squarespace, Pixieset or Format — that look fine but don't perform, don't rank, and don't give you control. We build bespoke portfolio sites that load fast even with full-resolution work, integrate with the client tools you already use, and earn search traffic for the photography categories that actually pay your bills.
Photographer web design has a deceptively hard core constraint: every photographer wants to show full-resolution work, and the web doesn't reward that. The sites that perform make every-pixel-counts decisions — image format (AVIF/WebP), responsive sizing, lazy-loading, art-directed crops per breakpoint — without compromising the integrity of the work.
On top of that, the working business of being a photographer needs the website to handle real workflow: client galleries (or links to Pixieset / Pic-Time / ShootProof), pricing or pricing ranges, inquiry-form routing per shoot type, and ideally search-friendly content per category (weddings, brand, editorial, real estate) that earns traffic without compromising the portfolio's elegance.
We work with editorial, commercial, wedding and brand photographers across BC and Canada. The patterns shift per category — wedding photographers need warmer narratives; commercial shooters need cleaner case studies; brand photographers need a category-organized portfolio that reads like a thoughtful index. The site has to match the practice.
The work that actually
moves bookings.
AVIF/WebP serving, art-directed crops per breakpoint, lazy-loading, no decorative scripts that slow first paint. LCP under 2 seconds even on image-heavy portfolio pages.
Portfolio organized by real categories (weddings, brand, editorial, commercial, real estate) — each indexable, each ranking-friendly, each navigable in two clicks.
Pixieset, Pic-Time, ShootProof, CloudSpot — embedded or routed cleanly. No need to rebuild the client gallery in the site.
Wedding inquiries route differently from brand or editorial inquiries. We build the routing logic so you don't have to manually sort intake email.
Starting prices or price ranges where the practice supports it. Helps prospects self-qualify; reduces low-quality inquiries.
Photographer schema, category + location targeting, Google Business Profile with portfolio photos, image alt-text and EXIF preservation where it helps.
What you'll get.
- 01A portfolio that loads fast even on full-resolution image galleries
- 02Category pages that rank for real photography queries
- 03Inquiry flows that route correctly per shoot type
- 04Client gallery integration without rebuilding the gallery itself
- 05A site you own outright — no template subscription, no platform lock-in
From the
studio blog.
The 2026 Core Web Vitals thresholds, why field data matters more than Lighthouse scores, and the highest-leverage fixes for marketing sites.
Section by section: what a 2026 landing page hitting 8–15% conversion actually contains, and the micro-decisions that move the needle.
The 11-item local SEO checklist we run for BC service businesses — Map Pack signals, citations, schema, and what realistically moves the phone.
How this gets
built.
What photographers
actually ask.
Building for
photographers?
Thirty-minute call, no slide deck, no salespeople. Tell us what you're working on and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team.