A contact form for photographers that books shoots

What a photography form should actually ask

Photography enquiries fail on missing basics: the reply thread spends two days establishing the date and the kind of shoot. Ask up front:

Every field you add costs completions, so this list is deliberately short; everything else is a question for the reply. The snippet below is the whole form; build a styled variant in the free form generator or start from a template.

<form action="https://formgong.com/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="fk_your_access_key">
  <label>Name <input type="text" name="name" required></label>
  <label>Email <input type="email" name="email" required></label>
  <label>Kind of shoot
    <select name="shoot">
      <option>Wedding</option><option>Portrait</option><option>Event</option>
      <option>Product</option><option>Other</option>
    </select>
  </label>
  <label>Date or timeframe <input type="text" name="date"></label>
  <label>Location <input type="text" name="location"></label>
  <label>Message <textarea name="message" required></textarea></label>
  <div style="position:absolute;left:-9999px" aria-hidden="true">
    <input type="text" name="botcheck" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
  </div>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Three places the form can live

Portfolio on your own domain, portfolio on a builder, or no website at all beyond Instagram: the same form covers all three.

• On your website: paste the form where the enquiry should happen. It is your HTML, so it inherits your design; the HTML docs list the hidden fields (redirect, subject, language).
• Without a website: every form also exists as a hosted page at formgong.com/f/<key>, built from the same saved design, plain HTML. That link goes in an Instagram bio, a Google Business Profile booking link, or a message, and submissions arrive exactly like the embedded form's.
• From a preset: describe the form in the generator and it proposes the fields, which you edit before anything is saved.

Where the enquiry lands, and how fast you see it

Each submission is delivered to email and, on every plan including Free, to Telegram, with Reply and Mark handled buttons in the chat. You are rarely at a desk: Telegram on your phone means the enquiry from Saturday's wedding fair gets answered between sets, not on Monday when the couple has booked someone else. Every submission also sits in the dashboard inbox with CSV export, so a filtered email is never the only copy, and the free plan takes 1,000 submissions a month, which covers most small businesses with room to spare.

Spam is filtered server-side before it reaches you: a honeypot field, content checks, and optional Cloudflare Turnstile you switch on per form without touching the code. Flagged submissions land in a Spam folder you can review, so a real enquiry misjudged by the filter is one click away, not lost.

Image galleries and bookings: what this form is not

Two things photographers sometimes want that a contact form should not pretend to be. It is not a client gallery: delivering photos needs a gallery service, and attaching previews to enquiries just slows the form (file uploads are supported when you genuinely need them, for example a "what should we recreate" reference, up to the per-file cap). And it is not a calendar: if your business runs on slot booking, a booking tool with payments is the right category, and the form's role is the enquiries that do not fit slots. Most photographers' work, weddings above all, starts as a conversation, which is exactly what a form is for.

What did we miss for your business?

If your photography form asks something this page does not cover, or a field here earns nothing in your experience, write to support@formgong.com. These pages get better from working owners' corrections.