Case Study · Client work
Photography Portfolio
A production-grade portfolio for a professional photographer — bilingual, CMS-driven, with a private pricing gate and automated enquiry emails.
Overview
A professional photographer based in Chișinău needed a portfolio site that could showcase their work beautifully, handle bilingual content (RO / EN), let them manage everything themselves without a developer, and gate the pricing page behind a password.
The result is a clean editorial site with a dark aesthetic, fast image loading via Sanity's image pipeline, a fully functional contact form via Resend, and a Supabase-backed pricing gate.
The brief
- Image fidelity — Lighthouse ≥ 90, no compression artefacts
- Fully bilingual RO/EN with route-level locale switching
- Self-serve headless CMS so the photographer can update content without code
- Private pricing gate — password required to view pricing
- Reliable enquiries — contact form with email confirmation
Approach
Editorial design
Dark, spacious layout that lets the photography breathe. Typography hierarchy using Inter + JetBrains Mono.
Headless CMS
Sanity Studio for all content — galleries, bio, packages, testimonials. No code needed for updates.
True bilingual
Field-level localization in Sanity, next-intl for routing and string management, hreflang for SEO.
Private pricing gate
Supabase-backed auth flow. Clients enter a shared password to unlock the pricing page.
Transactional email
Resend integration for contact-form confirmations to both client and photographer.
Branded social cards
Custom OG image route that renders gallery images with the brand overlay.
Engineering highlights
- Image fidelity system — Sanity image URLs with quality=90, format=webp, responsive sizes
- Custom OG image route — next/og with dynamic Sanity image injection
- Clean i18n routing — /ro and /en with automatic redirect from root
Outcome
- In production since 2024
- Client manages all content independently via Sanity Studio
- Private pricing gate preventing public price scraping
- Branded social previews on every gallery page
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