Silver Halide — Free Bootstrap 6 Photography Website Template
Silver Halide is a free, premium Bootstrap 6 portfolio template for photographers. It is deliberately dark and chrome-free: a full-viewport hero, a centred wordmark floating over it with the navigation split either side, and a full-bleed mosaic gallery that never sits inside a container.
The lightbox is the native <dialog> element rather than a plugin — the browser supplies the backdrop, the focus trap and the Escape handling, so the whole feature costs about fifteen lines of JavaScript. The enquiry form adds Combobox, Datepicker and Chip input, none of which exist in Bootstrap 5.
Key features
- Dark-first design with a full-viewport hero and almost no page chrome
- Centred wordmark header with navigation split either side, floating over the hero
- Full-bleed mosaic gallery with asymmetric spans — no container, no .row grid
- Lightbox built on the native
- Horizontal scroll-snap series strip
- Rates tiers and an about section using .prose typography
- Booking enquiry with Combobox commission type, Datepicker and Chip input usage tags
- Retheme the whole site by changing a single –brand token
- Light mode included via data-bs-theme, remembered across visits
- Native form validation with data-bs-validate and :user-invalid
- ESM-only vanilla JavaScript — no jQuery, no bundler, no build step
Before you use it
Bootstrap 6 has not been released. npm i bootstrap@6 does not work yet and the framework is still changing, so treat this as a head start on learning v6 rather than a foundation for a production site you need to maintain today. The framework is vendored into the template at a pinned commit, so nothing here can drift. It targets evergreen browsers only — Safari 16.4+, Chrome 111+ and Firefox 113+ — because Bootstrap 6 is built on oklch() and color-mix().
