Zamarud Studio
Cinematic photo and film coverage. My studio — the brand, the site, and the frames.
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Zamarud Studio is my creative practice — cinematic photo and video coverage, delivered with a calm process and a polished finish. Portrait, automotive, and selected commercial work all run through it.
It is also the studio that supplies imagery to everything else I build. When a client project needs real photography instead of stock, this is where it comes from.
A photography studio site has one job that most of them get wrong: get out of the way of the work. Heavy interface, small images, and a booking form buried three clicks deep are all ways of hiding the only thing a client came to judge.
The second problem is credibility of a different kind. Anyone can present a gallery. Presenting a process — how a shoot is run, what the finish looks like — is what converts an enquiry into a booking.
A dark, full-bleed editorial site where a single frame carries the page, the type is quiet, and booking is one tap from anywhere. The site is deliberately restrained so the photography is the loudest thing on it.
- Brand identity, wordmark, and art direction
- Full-bleed editorial site with cinematic hero
- Gallery structured by category and by shoot
- Booking and enquiry flow, one tap from any page
- Client area for delivery and selects
Brand, interface, and the photographs themselves.
The unusual part: the same person shot the imagery, built the site, and runs the studio.
Name, wordmark, palette, and the editorial serif register. Built to sit under photography without competing with it.
The visual grammar of the studio — low light, restraint, grain, black and white where it earns its place.
Every frame on the site is mine. Portrait and automotive work, plus film coverage.
Editorial layout, full-bleed imagery, minimal metadata, booking reachable from everywhere.
Built for large imagery — responsive art direction, lazy loading, and a gallery that stays fast.
Founded and operated. Pricing, packages, client communication, delivery, and the calendar.
The brand is the work.
A photography studio cannot borrow someone else’s imagery. Everything on the site — the identity, the site, the frames — came out of the same practice.
For the technical reader.
- FRONTEND
- Next.js · React · responsive art direction
- MEDIA
- S3 · CDN delivery · AVIF and WebP with JPEG fallback
- BACKEND
- Node · Postgres · booking and enquiry records
- INTEGRATIONS
- Resend · calendar booking · client delivery area
- INFRASTRUCTURE
- Vercel · Cloudflare
Only the parts worth showing.
Marked slots below — drop in real screens, admin captures, or diagrams and this section carries the case study on its own.
The studio books through the site, and the imagery it produces feeds every other project on this page.
Published performance figures are being measured properly before they go on this page. When there are numbers worth defending they will appear here — sourced and dated.
- Deployment
- Live
- Booking
- Direct through site
- Imagery
- Entirely in-house
- Published metrics
- Being measured
Need photography, or a brand that can carry it?
Portrait, automotive, and selected commercial work — and the identity and site to present it properly.
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