GRAIN — Photography Portfolio & Booking Shopify Theme

Description

Most photography themes are a black background, a thin serif, and a slider. GRAIN is built from the vocabulary of the craft: darkroom, warm black, photographic paper white, and darkroom lamp red, used only where something needs to be noticed. Syne titles, mono metadata, just like on the edge of a contact sheet. Dark mode is the default because that’s how images are judged.

The portfolio is not just any grid: it is a contact sheet with automatically numbered frames 01A, 02A, a film strip above, and a legend on hover. Clicking any frame opens the lightbox — arrows, Escape, counter, fully accessible via keyboard, written from scratch, without any gallery library.

The piece that sells the theme is the availability calendar. You enter occupied dates and held reservations as plain text, and the calendar marks them: occupied ones are crossed out and unselectable, held ones are in the accent color. The couple selects an available date, and it automatically fills into the quote request form, along with the location, number of guests, and the package they are viewing. Photographers pay monthly fees for exactly this.

Packages are Shopify products, where the product price is the deposit, not the total amount. The package page requests the date and location, and the order arrives in the admin as an event sheet. The rest is billed as it always is.

The hero occupies the entire screen and accepts a background photo or video, with an overlapping header that remains white until the first scroll.

What's included

• Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme, 14 templates, 26 configurable sections
• All customer account pages
• 8 linked HTML demo pages
• Documentation in Romanian and English, including a section on correct photo export
• Script that downloads photos locally for offline demo
• License

Features

Full-screen hero with image or video and slow Ken Burns motion · contact sheet-style portfolio with automatic numbering · native lightbox with keyboard navigation · availability calendar that writes the date into the form · quote request form based on native Shopify form · packages linked to products with deposit payment · complete stories as blog posts · dark and light mode with memory · frame reveal on scroll with animation-timeline: view() · View Transitions between pages · counters, testimonials, FAQ, scrolling banner · prefers-reduced-motion fully respected · one CSS and one JS file, no jQuery and no gallery library.

Software requirements

• Shopify, Online Store 2.0, any plan
• Installation: Online Store → Themes → Add theme → Upload zip file
• No mandatory apps, no page builder, no external dependencies
• Does not work on WordPress or Squarespace
• Demo pages are pure HTML, can be uploaded to any static hosting