A photographer’s website, hung like a show
A photographer is judged by the edit. An art director, or a couple planning a wedding, looks at a handful of your pictures and makes up their mind. A portfolio of two hundred images asks them to do the editing for you.
Studio keeps you to between three and eight. Each one hangs in a long white gallery, portrait or landscape as you shot it, and visitors pass them one at a time, in the order you set, each with its moment and its caption.
After the pictures: what you shoot, who you are, who you’ve worked for, and a form for commissions. While you build it your photos never leave your browser; at the end you download plain files to host where you like.
What your site shows
Your name, large
Your name stretches along the bottom edge in heavy capitals and draws in as the visitor comes through the door. A single line sits above it: what you photograph and where you’re based.
The hang
Pictures alternate left and right down a long room lit from skylights. Each is framed in black with a white mount under glass, casts a soft shadow on the wall, and has a spot trained on it from the ceiling track.
One picture at a time
The walk stops in front of each print and leans in, then the caption follows: its number in the sequence, the title, who commissioned it, the kind of job, the year, and a line in your words.
Who you’ve shot for
Past the gallery, your specialities go by as enormous words that stretch when they reach mid-screen. A paragraph about you follows, anyone who assists you, then the magazines and brands you’ve worked for, set as type.
Commissions
Turned back towards the doorway, the form asks for a name, an email and one of your rate bands; the message is where a client puts the date, the place and what the pictures are for.
Have this ready
- Your edit: three to eight pictures as JPG or PNG, in the order they should be seen — they hang in the order you add them.
- For each: a title, who it was for, the kind of job, the year, a line of your own.
- The kinds of work you take on — between two and six — as single short words, each with a sentence.
- A paragraph about you, whoever works alongside you — assistant, retoucher — and the magazines or brands you can name.
- Your budget options: the ranges you actually quote, one per line.
- A free Web3Forms key for commission requests, plus a Cal.com page if you talk to clients before a shoot.
Worth knowing
Edit harder than feels comfortable
Eight frames is the ceiling and the walk gives each one time, so a weak picture shows. Hang the ones you’d defend to an art director, not the ones that took longest or did well on Instagram.
Sequence it like a book
The pictures hang in the order you add them, on alternating walls, so think in pairs and turns: a quiet frame after a loud one, a portrait after a landscape. Open with what you do; close with the one people remember.
Permissions travel with the picture
If someone can be recognised, make sure they’re happy to be in your portfolio; for commissioned work, check what you agreed with the client about showing it. If someone else styled or art-directed the shoot, credit them in the caption.
Say “book a shoot” if that’s what it is
The wizard lets you rewrite the page’s words, the top button included. It says “Start a project” in the demo; “Book a shoot” or “Check a date” may sound more like your clients. Treat the budget ranges and the thank-you message the same way.
Questions
- Will my photos lose quality?
- Pictures larger than 2,400 pixels on the long side are scaled down to that in your browser, and heavy files are saved lighter so the page loads quickly. Your originals aren’t touched; for a picture seen framed on a wall, that size holds up well.
- Can visitors open a picture full screen?
- No. Each picture is seen hanging in its frame as the walk passes it, with its caption; there’s no lightbox. A larger archive kept elsewhere can be linked from the footer, which takes up to six profiles.
- Can I sell prints from it?
- Not through the kit: Studio has no shop, no basket and no payments. It’s built around commissions — the form and the booking link. A print shop you run somewhere else can sit among your profile links.
- Can I try it with my own pictures before paying?
- Yes. The wizard hangs them as you add them, in a live preview on a desktop and a phone. Everything stays in your browser — your pictures are never uploaded to Promti — and you pay only when you want the files.
- I shoot video as well. Can a film hang in the gallery?
- Not as moving footage: every piece is a still picture. A frame from the film works — the kit was made for posters, photographs, screens and film stills — and your Vimeo or YouTube can go among the footer links.