A photographer website you actually own
Portfolio platforms rent you a site and keep the code. This one is built from source files that transfer to you, with the image pipeline that heavy galleries need.
- Usual tier
- TIER-01 — €1,500 fixed
- Pages
- Five, then €150 each to a ceiling of ten
- Images
- AVIF/WebP, sized per breakpoint at build time
- Monthly fee
- None. No platform subscription.
What a photography site actually needs
Galleries that stay fast
Twenty full-resolution images is where most portfolio sites collapse. Yours are converted to modern formats and sized per breakpoint before the page ever ships.
Your work at full quality
The work happens at build time, not by degrading what visitors see. The compression is chosen per image, not applied as a blanket setting.
No monthly rent for your own portfolio
Squarespace, Format and Pixieset charge every month, and their design cannot leave the platform. Here the source is yours on final payment.
A booking or enquiry route
A validated contact form on TIER-01. Calendly scheduling for shoot consultations is TIER-02.
Findable by style and location
Clean structure and structured data so "wedding photographer" plus your city has something to rank on, rather than a JavaScript-rendered gallery a crawler cannot read.
A real exit
Ask any platform for your repository. There is not one, because there is no code. That is the whole argument for building it this way.
This is usually TIER-01
Five pages covers home, portfolio, about, pricing and contact. Add pages at €150 each if you want a gallery per genre, or move to TIER-02 for booking, a map, or a second language.
SEE TIER-01 IN FULL →Before you book
How much does a photographer website cost?
This one is €1,500, fixed and agreed before any work begins, for five pages. Extra pages are €150 each up to ten. There is no monthly fee to me afterwards, only hosting if you want me to run it.
Why not Squarespace, Format or Pixieset?
They are good at what they do and cheap monthly. The trade is that the subscription never ends and the design cannot leave: there is no source code to export, so moving means rebuilding. Here the repository transfers to you on final payment.
Can I deliver client galleries through it?
Not on these tiers. Private galleries need user accounts, which are excluded. Most photographers run proofing on a dedicated service and link to it from the site, and that works well.
Can I sell prints?
No. E-commerce and payments are outside both tiers. If print sales are central to your business, this is not the right build.