Your studio, beautifully online.
A bespoke website and one branded home for galleries, proofing, bookings and payments, designed, built and moved across for you. A real person in the North West, working with photographers UK-wide.
- Done for you
- Priced in pounds
- No commission on sales
How your free preview works
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Send your site and a few photos
Pop your current website or Instagram in the form, then send a few favourite photos you’re happy for me to use in the mock-up.
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Your mock-up in about 48 hours
I build a mock-up of your new homepage around your own photos, usually within about 48 hours of receiving them.
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A walk-through call, no obligation
We look through it together on a short video or phone call. No obligation and no hard sell: if it’s not for you, that’s fine.
Great photography, held back by the tools around it.
An outdated website
A template that looked fine in 2018, slow on mobile and nothing like the work you now deliver. Enquiries go to whoever looks the part.
A patchwork of tools
One subscription for the site, another for galleries, another for contracts and bookings. Your clients meet three logos and three logins before they see their photos.
Billed in dollars
Most of the popular platforms charge in USD, so your costs drift with the exchange rate and your card adds foreign-exchange fees.
Set up it yourself
Evenings and weekends spent wiring it all together, instead of shooting, editing or switching off. And nobody to call when it breaks.
Upgrade your clients’ experience
Custom website + client galleries, built for you.
is ready
Hartley & Rowe is a fictional demo studio; the photography is illustrative.
One brand. One login. One person to call.
Everything lives on your own domain, under your own name, with no “powered by” badges.
Bespoke website
Designed around your photography and your clients, not squeezed into a template.
Client galleries
Private, branded galleries with downloads, on your domain.
Proofing
Clients favourite and comment on images, so selections and album choices arrive in one place.
Bookings
Enquiry, booking and questionnaires in one smooth flow that matches your site.
Payments
Deposits and invoices via Stripe straight to your bank, in pounds, with no commission from me.
Prints & products
Offer prints and products to clients from their gallery. Fulfilment is arranged with the lab you already trust.
Creative touches, built in.
A template gives you the same site as everyone else. Yours can have a few small surprises: an album that opens like the real thing, a voucher that tears, a photograph you can lean into. These are live, and they’re examples of what I can build into your own website.
The album, opened
Turn the pages of a 3D album. Tap a page, or use the arrows.
A voucher with a little drama
It smooths out of a crumpled sheet. Tear off the stub to redeem it.
Gift voucher
The gift of beautiful photographs
Your studio name · your town · yourstudio.co.uk
Look a little closer
Glide over the photograph to inspect the detail, or drag on a phone.
Sample pieces with illustrative photography, shown here as examples. Each one is designed around your own work and brand.
Five steps, and I do the heavy lifting.
Free preview
A free mock-up of your new homepage, built around your own photos in about 48 hours, and a walk-through call about what you’d like to change.
Design
A bespoke design built around your photography, signed off before anything is built.
Migration, done for you
Galleries, clients, contracts and links moved across without you lifting a finger.
Launch
We go live together, with redirects in place and a walkthrough of your new client experience.
Ongoing care
Hosting, backups, updates and friendly support, so it just keeps working.
Clear pricing, in pounds.
All prices are ex VAT. No commission on your sales.
£2,250 setup
+ £89 per month
- Fully bespoke design
- Migration of existing galleries done for you
- Client galleries, proofing, bookings and payments
- Contracts and questionnaires
- 1TB storage
- Quarterly design tweaks and ongoing support
£899 setup
+ £49 per month
Usually £2,250 + £89/mo
Everything in Signature, in exchange for a case study and a testimonial once you’re live. Limited to the first 5 clients.
Book your free website previewCompared with doing it yourself
| The usual DIY stack (estimate) | Per month |
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| Gallery & client suite | ~£38 |
| Website builder | ~£26 |
| Booking & CRM tool | ~£20 |
| Total, plus your own time to build and connect it | ~£83 |
Estimate based on mid-tier monthly plans of popular tools, often billed in USD. Your monthly fee here is £89, with the design, set-up and migration done for you.
Questions photographers ask.
Can you move my existing galleries and clients across?
Yes, that’s part of the Signature build. I migrate your current galleries, client lists and contract templates, and set up redirects so your old links and search rankings aren’t lost. You keep working as normal until we switch over.
Who owns the website and my photos?
You do. The domain is registered in your name and your original files and client data are yours. If you ever leave, I’ll hand over a full export of your galleries and client data. There’s no lock-in contract beyond the monthly plan.
Will I be billed in pounds?
Yes. Everything with me is priced in GBP, ex VAT, with UK invoices. No dollar conversion or card foreign-exchange fees, and no surprise rises when the exchange rate moves.
How is this different from Pixieset or ShootProof?
Those are self-serve tools: you design, set up and connect everything yourself, and most bill in dollars. Here a person designs a bespoke site for you, moves your work over and looks after it, with one branded client experience and no commission on your sales. To be straight with you: they have polished apps, free tiers and built-in print-lab networks that I don’t, so if you sell a lot of albums through a lab integration, tell me when we talk and we’ll work out what fits.
How long does it take?
Typically four to six weeks from your free preview to launch, depending on how much needs migrating and how quickly we agree on the design.
What support do I get?
You deal directly with me, a real person in the North West, by email, WhatsApp or a call. The monthly fee covers hosting, security, backups, updates, support and small design tweaks, with a design refresh each quarter on Signature.
Can I keep my domain and email?
Yes. Your existing domain stays where it is or can be transferred, and any email you already use keeps working. I handle the DNS changes so nothing breaks on launch day.
How do payments and fees work?
Clients pay deposits and invoices through Stripe, with payouts going straight to your bank. I take no commission on your sales. You pay Stripe’s standard UK card fees, which at the time of writing start from 1.5% + 20p per UK card payment.
Book your free website preview
See your new website before you commit. Tell me a little about you and I’ll reply within one working day to collect a few favourite photos. Your mock-up follows in about 48 hours, built around your own work.