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06/19/2006 05:28:00 PM · #1 |
I've never done this before, but I've seen others do it. I've put together a web site with some of my better pictures. I wanted to get some opinions on my photography...good, bad, needs some work, etc. I've entered quite a few challenges, but I've got lots of other pictures that I've never entered. Thanks in advance for any feedback that you might have. I appreciate it.
Here is the URL: //www.russelltannerphotography.com
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06/19/2006 05:38:29 PM · #2 |
| The pictures don't seem to quite fit on my screen but there's no scroll button. I either can't see the bottom of the photo or I can only see the top part of the row of thumbnails. I'm on a relatively small resolution (1024x768) but thought I'd point this out in case it's something you can fix. |
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06/19/2006 05:45:43 PM · #3 |
There are "slideshow" controls on the bottom right corner. It's a Photoshop generated Flash slideshow. I have a 17" screen and everything works fine (1280 x 1024). Well, if you get a chance to look at them, somehow, I'd still appreciate feedback :-)
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06/19/2006 05:45:45 PM · #4 |
| the shots that have a samll amount or person in focus are so cool. and the way youve captured the shooting gun is fantastic. i dont like the photo of the couple with the plants in front with the pinks and greens. its very distracting. i dont believe it adds anything. I like the one with the reflection in the glasses(man, half face) but i think I'd like it much better without the "reflection". The beach shots are all wonderful. the baby in the air is scary and so cute at the same time.i'm not fond of the surfer shot thats all white around him. its soo bright its hard to look at. the black and white picture of the mans profile would be better without the top of the kids head in the lower right hand corner. I like the idea of the pants with the belt buckle picture but for some reason dont like how it was done. and it seems possibly noisy on the shirt but maybe thats the texture of the shirt. and id like the last picture(face with palm fronds? in front of it) better if she were all in shadow the lit parts lost detail. overall very nice work. Hopefully i'm making sense. its hard to comment on so many pictures all at once. It gets confusing. |
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06/19/2006 05:53:35 PM · #5 |
Well on my 1600x1200 screen the photos fit just fine with plenty of room to spare. Ok, I just said that to poke fun at mk's tiny monitor screen. :P
As for the photos they are all very nice. What I might suggest is maybe changing the order a bit. That baby flying in the air and the surfer pic to name two could make great opening images in your slide show presentation. Not that the one you have currently isn't any good because it is. I just think some of the other ones may do a better job of holding the visitors attention longer, which is all you want from an opening page/image.
Message edited by author 2006-06-19 17:54:54. |
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06/19/2006 05:55:51 PM · #6 |
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06/19/2006 06:11:45 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Well on my 1600x1200 screen the photos fit just fine with plenty of room to spare. Ok, I just said that to poke fun at mk's tiny monitor screen. :P
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My poor little laptop. But on the porch with a small monitor beats a bigger monitor in a stuffy office any day. ;)
chafter, I'll get back to you with feedback later this evening. The bit I saw looked quite nice, though. |
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06/19/2006 06:15:11 PM · #8 |
My poor little laptop. But on the porch with a small monitor beats a bigger monitor in a stuffy office any day. ;) [/quote]
Where you live perhaps but down here in Texor it's hot and stuffy outside. My office space works just fine and it's got a nice view without the humidity! |
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06/19/2006 06:25:55 PM · #9 |
I should have added a disclaimer..."Please critique work on large monitor" :-)
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06/19/2006 06:31:12 PM · #10 |
My monitor is big enough and my internet is fast enough, but these photos are loading sooooooooo slowly.
I'm sorry, but I'm not patient enough to wait for them. |
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06/19/2006 06:34:37 PM · #11 |
Each picture is around 200-300k in size. It usually takes around 2-3 seconds for them to load on my computer.
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06/19/2006 06:36:17 PM · #12 |
Dont fit on my screen and load too slowly.. Im not patient either... but the few I did see were nice ;-)
PS... I have a fast connection and a fine size monitor... a scroll bar would be handy...
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06/19/2006 06:36:18 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
My monitor is big enough and my internet is fast enough, but these photos are loading sooooooooo slowly.
I'm sorry, but I'm not patient enough to wait for them. |
You're on cable/dsl? When I first looked at them they loaded fairly quick. At most it took about 3-4 seconds on my end. I like the way it loads since it acts as part of the transition. |
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06/19/2006 07:34:11 PM · #14 |
I think some people's DSL is not much better than dial-up...
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06/19/2006 07:47:33 PM · #15 |
I have a bit of a web-site in the middle of by viewscreen :-/ I get this a lot because I run a higher resolution then some but to have a scroll bar when I have plenty of space is a waste. Depends on your audience as to whether this is an issue but keep track of the stats from your logs.
I find the resizing off-putting; I would stick to a larger size so the thumb list does not have to move around at all (or at least so much).
You have enough different classes of photos that maybe some seperate galleries / classifications would be good.
The scroll bar needs to react to clicks on either side of the slider.
Get rid of the hotmail email address and make it match the website - even if you have to force-redirect to the hotmail.
Nice images! |
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06/19/2006 08:34:38 PM · #16 |
I really like the fade-in/fade-out portion of the transition. The part that messes things up is the slow loading of the images. These really don't look like they are all that big (pixel wise) so you could probably post at a higher compression ratio without much loss in quality and speed the loading that way.
Alternatively, it would be good if the flash player could background-load the next image while you're looking at one. That would hide the long load times and give the fade-in/fade-out effect the "timing" that it deserves.
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06/19/2006 09:11:58 PM · #17 |
You do have some nice looking photos but I would like to see them load faster too, do you use PS "save for web" - it removes alot of the unnecessary stuff like EXIF info. The images are roughly the same size as DPC's so 150Kb should be plenty, maybe even 100Kb for images with blurred backgrounds.
I also use a smaller monitor - 104x768. Ideally a website should work well on all sizes of monitors. If the thumbnails were to one side of the image that would help - at the moment they often don't fit on my screen at all. The lack of scrollbars makes this a big issue... |
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06/19/2006 09:28:37 PM · #18 |
| I guess I wasn't very clear about what I was asking. Most people seem to be critiquing the web site itself...and not the pictures. The web site is just a Photoshop generated site...anyone with CS2 can create it. I was wanting critiques on the photos themselves! lol Oh well... |
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06/19/2006 09:35:13 PM · #19 |
Agreed. 1024x768 is still the most common screen resolution by a LOT.
To make your site difficult to view or unviewable to the majority of the general public will not be good for your purposes.
Taking nice pictures is one thing. Doing business however is all about attention to detail. If you don't cover your bases, you won't make the sale...
Compare that issue to prints... do you think someone would be interested in your work if they believed that you would print all your pictures in the size you wanted, then just cut the edges off to make it fit in the album?
As to ADSL, I also use ADSL, but some sites suffer from slow routers in between them and viewers... for me, I often see speeds from 20KB/s to 60KB/s, even though I'm on a supposed '8 megabit' line... |
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