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Why Unusual Light?
We make it easy to create, display, organize and share your photography portfolio on the web.
We host your site, maintain it, back it up and leave you to the photography.
Fantastic Features
We also offer excellent client download tools, password protected posts, PDF galleries and much more!
News & Blog
Whether you want to post updates about your exhibitions, or just want to jot down some notes about your latest projects.
Galleries
Create as many as you want, include text, videos and pictures, have a different layout template for each of the, the possibilities are almost endless!
Shop
Sell products, prints, books, downloads all from your own website and use google checkouts or paypal and take payments from around the world.
Events
Manage events, talks, exhibitions, private views and more… maybe run a gallery or a whole host of them, we’ve got the tools to help.
Tumblr
Embed your tumblr into your site to ensure your audience stays with your site and everything you do and the prints you sell.
Pages
Create static pages for your bio and contact information or whatever you want.
Great Customisable Themes!
Here’s a quick sampling of some of our recent design presets.
The Horizontal
A clean horizontal theme with a top menu.
Large Text
Top left menu with a large text list of projects on the homepage, background image changes on hover.
The Photoblogger
A simple theme for photobloggers, lists posts on homepage.
Commercial
Full screen random images on homescree, ideal for commercial photographers.
Scattered
A random positioning homepage list and left side menu.
Magazine Collective
Ideal for magazines or collectives, outputs latest post large with others smaller.
In addition to these presets choices, all of our themes can be completely via the theme builder or through CSS. We even have a to a Sandbox mode where you can enter your own custom HTML.
Plus we can install just about any other wordpress based themes for a small fee, or you can work with our designers (or your own) to develop a truly custom theme for your site.
Import, export, sync,
publish & share
As we’re built upon a wordpress system we have all the amazing syndication ability that comes with that software.
This means you can import your feeds automatically into facebook, twitter, google plus or whatever social platform comes around the corner next!
We work with our members
To make a better service
for everone
Photographers development fund
and our referrals program
So when any new site that is added to our system we either give a referral to the lovely people who introduced our new members or put funds aside for an upcoming photographers development fund.
We also give free sites to non profits and independents in the photography industry. More information coming soon.
The team
Because of this we feel we have a better understanding about what our users want, and as we’re small it means we aren’t faceless and are accountable for what we do… which is great because we’re extremely proud of it!