Web design for photographers and videographers
Astra Labs designs custom websites for wedding, family, portrait, headshot, event and drone photographers, and for wedding and brand videographers. It costs $499 one time for up to five pages, with $99 to start and the rest when you love it, before it goes live. Your own frames and films fill the screen, your sessions are shown with their real prices, and your client galleries, print lab and booking tool stay exactly where they are.
Couples, parents and businesses look at photographers' sites in two moods: first they fall for the work, then they get practical. The points below come from 38 photographers and videographers we designed for this autumn, from the sites they already had and the ways their clients actually book.
Photographers' homepages were among the heaviest of any trade we measured. Full-size exports from the camera look the same on a phone as a properly sized image, they just take far longer to arrive. Every photo should be resized and compressed for the screen it lands on, with the full file kept for the gallery.
Long uniform grids were the most common layout in our notes. A wedding told from getting ready to the last dance, or one family session start to finish, sells the experience in a way a wall of thumbnails cannot.
Many of the photographers we studied kept their prices only in a PDF, on a wedding directory or not online at all, while others published clear session menus and packages. A short list of what each session includes and where it starts helps the right clients write to you.
Client galleries on Pixieset, Showit, Zenfolio or SmugMug, and print orders through your lab, work well. The new site links to them; nothing your clients use after the shoot has to move.
Visitors already know which pictures made them stop scrolling. Letting them mark those frames and send them with the enquiry tells you the style they want before the first reply.
A few photographers in our group worked only from Instagram or a link page, and one had let a site expire. A portfolio on your own domain is the address that stays when platforms change.
We read the current site of every photographer and videographer we designed for between late September and October 2026: 38 businesses in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Nigeria. On 1 November 2026 we opened each homepage again as a phone. The group is small, so these are observations, not an industry average.
The work itself was consistently strong; in note after note our team wrote that the photographs were far better than the site around them. The sites were built on WordPress with page builders such as Elementor and Divi, on Squarespace, Pixieset, Showit, Zenfolio, Wix and several smaller builders, and a handful were hand-coded. The typical pattern was a dimmed slider at the top, a centred heading, then long grids of same-sized photos and a contact page at the end. 19 of 31 homepages had no tap-to-call link, which is fine for a wedding photographer who prefers email, as long as the enquiry is easy to find. The weight is the clearest gap: one in ten homepages downloaded more than 14.7 MB on a phone.
Method: our review notes describe each old site in writing. Phone checks opened each homepage once at 390 pixels wide, recorded the data downloaded and looked for forms, embedded booking tools and tap-to-call links. See the full method.
None of these photographers asked to be named, so we describe the kind of work and the region only. Every design was made from their own photographs, films, words and prices.
Every photography and video site we make includes these.
Every photo prepared in several sizes so phones download a fraction of the data and laptops still get the detail.
Visitors mark the frames they love and those frames arrive with their message, along with the session, date and place.
Weddings, families, minis, headshots or brand days, each with what is included and where it starts. You update it yourself.
Client galleries, the print store and your booking tool (Acuity, HoneyBook, Pixieset, StudioNinja and others) open from the site as they do now.
For videographers and hybrids, your best clip loops quietly at the top in a phone-friendly size, with full films a tap away.
One wedding or one session told in order, with your captions. Add new stories yourself in the dashboard.
The site is a single fixed price. You start with $99, we design it from your own work, you ask for whatever changes you need, and the remaining $400 is due when you love it and before it goes live.
One payment for the site. Hosting only if you choose it.
We refine it until you love it. If it still is not right, every dollar comes back.
With Astra Labs a complete photography or videography website is $499 one time for up to five pages: $99 to start and $400 when you love it, before it goes live. There is nothing monthly unless you want us to host it for $30 a month.
No. Client galleries and print stores stay on the platform you use, and the new site links to them. Your clients keep the same logins and downloads.
Yes. We prepare each photo in several sizes and modern formats, so a phone receives a version made for its screen while large screens still get the detail. You upload the photo once and the site handles the rest.
If you already use Acuity, HoneyBook, StudioNinja or a similar tool, your booking button goes on the site, included. If you have none, live booking with deposits paid into your own account is $149.
That is your choice. Some photographers show full packages, others a "sessions from" price. Either way the site shows what each session includes, and you can change it in your dashboard at any time.
Yes. We build from your Instagram and any files you send. If you have no domain yet we register one in your name, and the first year is on us.
Make the website worthy of it. $499 for the whole site, $99 to start.