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- martinadolfsson0
Thanks guys, much appreciated!
- JG_LB0
i like your photographies
- slappy0
Awesome photos dude!
- martinadolfsson0
I'm running Safari as well, it works fine here. But it pops up in full screen when you click the image right?
- well any part of the main areaJSK
- ok, thanks good to knowmartinadolfsson
- JSK0
Chrome
- martinadolfsson0
Fuck.
Which browser are you using?
- JSK0
But preferably it should be in HTML.
Its very hard to get each images, unless you have download for individual images. Also, its so tiny to look at unless you are in fullscreen.Seriously, this to RAF http://www.qbn.com/raf/
He is good and knows exactly what to do. He should be able to whip up something
- JSK0
This is perfect but on fullscreen it comes up blank.
- martinadolfsson0
Think I found a solution:
- martinadolfsson0
Just as a one shot, I have my regular website which I will update with the new work sometime next month.
- vaxorcist0
separate folios = great idea....
think of naming the folios according to keywords people will search for, nobody ever searches for "portfolio 1" or "book 2"
- martinadolfsson0
This is really good feedback, thanks
I think the question how to balance your work is something most of us can relate to. On one hand you want to make money (commercial style lighting) on the other hand you want to show work that you can be proud of (a underexposed pine tree) but don't necessarily land you any jobs.
My focus is portraits, travel and architecture work, I get a lot of work from European clients but I'm starting to approach American clients more and more (I'm NY based). Question is if I need to start showing separate bodies of work as some things seems to work better in Europe then US and vice versa?
- I'd do a website... categories like Portraits, Travel, Architecture, NYC, etc... CLIENT LIST = SEO gold,
vaxorcist
- I'd do a website... categories like Portraits, Travel, Architecture, NYC, etc... CLIENT LIST = SEO gold,
- vaxorcist0
okay... besides the PDF thingie... I'd go website of course... very simple and clean, it's about the images, not the interface....
NOTE: what's your intended audience? who do you want to hire you for a campaign? I'd edit the work just a bit or categorize based on a specific target ... as in "I'd LOVE to be hired to do a campaign about ____ by client ___ in location ____." write a few of those down, then surf your site as if you're an art director looking for a photographer for that exact campign...
DELETE any images that scream "something tangent"
I like most of the work, If I were an art director, I'd be concerned that you may not be showing work here that shows an ability to do commercial-style lighting, but if I were hiring somebody who does exotic location work, that may not matter.... I've overheard art directors choosing photographers say things like "but can he make amazing stuff happen when the light is crap and the location got rescheduled?"
- formed0
I really hate that "flippy page thing". For student work, fine, but for a professional photographer it looks cheesy. Not to mention that silly 'shadow' and 'highlight' that really distracts from the photos (that's all I noticed on the 2 page shots.
Simple slide show with a PDF download would be perfect.
- JSK0
You can make selective viewer and send them the link something like..
http://www.martinadolfsson.com/o…
http://www.martinadolfsson.com/d…
And have full browser view to flip through. And have two nav item to download PDF or main site.
All you need to make is a template for this promo card. Also, it would be idea if it wasnt a flash site. Most of the times now a days, people just grab the image off the site and paste it in to their moodboard etc.
- However I guess that requires some coding skills right?
martinadolfsson - Ask someone good. Like RAF from hereJSK
- However I guess that requires some coding skills right?
- dbloc0
SEND OUT YOUR WEBSITE......THAT USSUU THING LOOKS UNPROFESSIONAL. EVEN IF IT HAS THE COOL PAGE FLIPPY THING.
- actually there is no page flippy thing...SEE I didn't even look at it;dbloc
- :)martinadolfsson
- martinadolfsson0
To be honest I just wanted to try something different, I've been updating my website every third month for a few years now and wanted to try something new.
I think of this as a kind of digital promo card, even though this is online (and not a actual file) it feels more selective to receive a file then just a link to a website right?
Good point regarding name on images JSK.
- JSK0
One more thing is adding your name to each photo. There are so many times where I grab a pic and not know where it came from.