More Professional Feedback

This week I spoke to Renee Sproull on the phone about what she felt about my website.  Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, you didn't see anything that needed to be changed about it.  She talked about how she like the photographic background and she thought it was even more impressive that I took the photo myself.  She felt that I had a nice selection of photographs in all of my "portfolios" and also really liked how I included my personal series on my website as well.  Renee felt that it added to me as a photographer because my personal series are very different than my portraiture and/or product work.  Overall Renee was very impressed with my website and felt that if I market myself well I would gain a lot of work with it.

Professional Feedback 3

This week I went and talk to the director of photography, Ric Peterson.  Ric really didn't have too many things that needed to be changed on my website.  So here they are.....
1. The home page slideshow needed to be more focused on the area of photography I want to work in.  For example since I want to focus on food and product photography that is what should be in the slide show.
2. Ric wanted me to post a way to contact me on every page so the viewer wouldn't have to go to my contact page to email or call me.
3. Ric also felt that just an email wasn't a good enough to be the only means of contacting me.  I needed to add my phone number to my site as well.

With all of that said Ric really liked my website and felt that I had some strong images on it.  He also suggested that I take a look and photo shelter's "What Clients expect from a Webpage" article because it is very helpful when building your website.

Professional Feedback 2

This week I showed and got feedback from Ben Kerns.  Here is what Ben had to say......

Cons

1. Ben wasn't a fan of having the webmaster log in at the bottom of the page.  He felt as though the person looking at my site would click on it and become confused.

2. Also Ben pointed out making the canvas on my photographs all the same size so when they enlarged they would all be the same size.

3.  The one major thing that was lacking on my page was an "About" page.  Ben feels as though an about page would replace the resume page, especially if I wanted to work as a freelance photographer.

Pros

1. Ben doesn't normally like photo backgrounds but since mine is at a lower opacity and has a clean white background anyway, he feels as though the photo enhances my web page rather than take away from it.

2. Ben really liked the overall set up and color palette of my page. 

Professional Feedback

This week I talk to Raymond Gendreau about how to make my website better.  I found it interesting because being someone who has worked in the industry and not has fond of the digital age Raymond had a different point of view than my own.  My website seemed a little difficult to navigate. The advice that he gave was this:
1. There were some of my images that didn't stand up to par with the rest so they needed to go
2. I have a large enough and strong enough food portfolio and product portfolio that they needed to be separated
3. On the drop down menu for my portfolio they should be listed as strongest to weakest
4. Some of my portraits should go into my "personal projects" because they are a series and all of my personal projects should be listed with my artist statement for each series.

More Awesome Photography Websites

Jeremy Cowart
http://jeremycowart.com/
I found this website and was pleasantly surprised.  Jeremy was a painter before entering the photography realm and his strong design and compositional skills show in his website because of it.  The first thing I noticed about the website is that he has his hands in many pots. The home page is labeled photographer, humanitarian, teacher, artist, and app creator with corresponding images to go with.  The each page is set up with the same layout, which is a salon style design of different sized and orientated images put together in a seeming random fashion but it is pleasing to the eye and works very well.  The part that I enjoyed most about Jeremy Cowart's website is that the "About" page is really about the photographer.  It delves into all areas Jeremy Cowart's life and interspersed are photos that relate back to what is being said.  Though this style of website is not one I would use myself I have found that it works well for Jeremy Cowart.

British Journal of Photography
http://www.bjp-online.com/
What I love most about this website is the style.  The British Journal of Photography set up their website to look almost like a newspaper.  It is very interesting to look at.  On the main page there is a box of several smaller images.  When you roll your mouse over each image it shows the smaller image larger.  It is a little disconcerting at first but as soon as a realized what was going on it grew on me.  Each image was from a photographer that had been deemed as "one to watch".  If you clicked on the image it takes you to an article about said photographer.  Now this isn't a website that can be used as a portfolio website for professional photographers but as far as a periodical publication goes it works very well.

Chase Jarvis
http://www.chasejarvis.com/#at=0&mi=1&pt=0&pi=1&s=0&p=-1&a=-1
When first arriving to Chase Jarvis' website it is a large slide show of images and videos by and about Chase Jarvis.  The main reason I chose Chase Jarvis' website is because he is one of the few local photographers that has a good website.  Chase Jarvis is very big into using different types of media to show viewers who he is.  He has a video series called Chase Jarvis Live which are interviews that are done with people in the art world to give tips to other photographers.  I found the website kind of crammed but somehow I wanted to see the next page and the next and the next.  I am not sure what the extra quality that this website has but it definitely draws in its viewer.

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