new photography website/portfolio
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- j_lawson
Hey everyone,
Just finished my new website, and would be interested to know what you think of it, and the work on it
http://www.jacklawsonphotography…
Thanks!
- JamesBoynton0
Makes me really want to go to Tanzania!
I like your photos a lot, great work. To me, the site is a little clumpy, the drop-downs in the menu are a little glitchy and it feels like a chore to get to an actual image. Especially when the right hand menu keeps popping in every time I go near the edge when trying to click a thumbnail.
And the logo is huge, looks way better when you scale your browser down and it shrinks it.
But then again I am in a bad mood today.
- maikel0
Make the logo bigger!
Jokes aside, you might want to get a designer to have a look at it, as it stinks of template clichés. Nothing wrong with templates, if good ones and correctly customised, but this isn't the case and certainly distract from the pictures.
- JamesBoynton0
Looking again. Amazing travel snaps!
- webazoot0
Like the work but yes found the navigation a bit all over and hard work. Prefer something simpler to use that was less showy I think myself. Should be all about the images.
- sine0
pretty much agree with what everyone has said already...
great photos, but the site and functionality detracts from that.
i would've looked at all your photos if i didn't get annoyed by how hard it was to browse. even something as simple as http://www.indexhibit.org/ works great for photography portfolios.
- scruffics0
chunky
- pango0
get someone to do your logo... it's terrible...
some really great photos tho.
I find UI and Navigation a bit buggy and messy...
- vaxorcist0
interesting work, usable but slightly odd navigation... I think its a template, which makes sense to a photographer, but....
random idea... check out folio sites of successful commercial photographers in the genre you're interested in working.... not too many of them are full-screen.... many of them have things like client lists, client testimonials, and a more precisely targeted body of work. If you have tear sheets, you might put them in.... Art buyers look for little clues to separate "commercial photogs with a book" from "wannabes with a portfolio" and these clues are often quite small.... note that some people judge you from your least-amazing image, not your most amazing image, so I'd cull a few images, especially from the live music section, as a few musicians look bored, which is an occupational risk of photographing musicians, I know... theyre playing the instrument, not posing for you or being an actor(!)
theres some interesting portrait work... the trick here is to have some variety of demographic, and/or light really well and have a certain attitude, all so it doesn't look like you just spent a few weekends photographing your photogenic friends, but that you're able to pull off an editorial portrait of somebody you don't know for a publication...
theres some cool stuff here.... and yes, Id make the logo smaller....
- Raniator0
Not sure the nav works properly?
If you go from Projects to Blog, you miss it because it scrolls back up. Not the end of the world, but something to be revisited?
The photos are awesome though. And yeah, that logo could be reduced down a bit too.
- mg330
Nav is annoying, would be better if it worked on-click and then displayed the sub-pages.
- j_lawson0
Thanks for all the comments (and for taking the time to look). I'd probably agree about the UI so will see what I can do. Glad you like the photos though.
Thanks
- JamesBoynton0
Photos are great! Just need a site which shows then off.
- utopian0
Image = great
logo = horrible
website = okay
- albums0
rock that logo so hard, fuck what 12 people say.