Websites for photographers.

For a photographer, the website's entire job is to get out of the way of the work. A gallery that loads slowly, crops images to fit someone else's grid, or surrounds photos with unrelated chrome is actively working against the one thing that sells the service: the images themselves, shown large and deliberately, in an order that tells a story rather than a random grid. The best photographer sites read closer to a magazine spread than a typical small-business homepage — generous negative space, full-bleed images, minimal text competing for attention.

Past the gallery, the second job is making the business side frictionless without cheapening the aesthetic — a clear way to send a brief or inquire about a booking, plain language about usage rights and licensing (a real point of confusion for clients hiring for the first time), and enough information about process that a client knows what a shoot day actually looks like before they commit. None of that needs to look like a typical contact form; it can carry the same editorial restraint as the rest of the site.