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.