01 / Overview
Overview
A premium photography studio website, rebuilt and expanded — immersive gallery experience, booking system, cinematic scroll animations, and now a production backend powering content management behind the scenes. Focused on performance and visual storytelling — proof that the web can feel like cinema.
02 / The Problem
The Problem
The first SkyLens site looked good and did nothing. Every new shoot meant a phone call to me. Version two had to hand the studio its own website back.
03 / My Contribution
My Contribution
Rebuild + Backend
The available record identifies the role above. Team structure, pre-existing work, and individual task ownership are not stored, so no further attribution is claimed.
05 / Key Decisions
Key Decisions
The prettiest site can still be broken
V1 shipped as static markup. Every gallery update went through a developer, so the site slowly fell out of date — the worst outcome for a studio whose whole pitch is recent work. That diagnosis drove version two.
A production backend, not a CMS bolt-on
Shoots, galleries, and categories became real content models with a management interface behind them. The studio uploads a session and it is live — no deploy, no developer, no waiting for my calendar.
Motion that serves the photograph
Cinematic scroll sequences are easy to overdo. Every transition here exists to hand attention to an image and then get out of the way — reveals timed to reading speed, nothing that fights the photography for the eye.
Heavy imagery on a strict budget
A photography site is the hardest performance case there is. Responsive sizes, modern formats, lazy loading below the fold, and one deliberately prioritized hero image keep the experience cinematic without a slow first paint.
Booking tied to what they actually shoot
The booking flow mirrors their real shoot types and turnaround, so an enquiry arrives with enough detail to quote. Fewer messages, faster answers, and a client who stopped losing leads in an inbox.
08 / Result