vieri
Leica Ambassador
Hello everybody, it has been a while since I posted images here - been very busy lately with many different projects; one of these was/is the refresh of my website, which is now split into different sections - one of these is dedicated to reportage(s) and personal projects, images of which have almost 100% been shot on Leica cameras & lenses. Here it is, for your consideration:
http://pj.madshutter.com/
Hope you'll enjoy, there is more to come but since it will be a while since I'll be able to update it significantly I thought I'd go ahead and open it.... otherwise, I am pretty sure it would have never seen the light of day
http://pj.madshutter.com/
Hope you'll enjoy, there is more to come but since it will be a while since I'll be able to update it significantly I thought I'd go ahead and open it.... otherwise, I am pretty sure it would have never seen the light of day
newsgrunt
Well-known
I understand why you do it but I found the watermarking, for me, very distracting as it's dead centre. Would also be nice to make the story teasers on the front page, live links. I couldn't understand why I wasn't going anywhere until I used the menu bar on the bottom of the page. ymmv
There´s some good work in it and I like the series.
If possible though, skip the flash stuff and build something easier to navigate through. Why not just have classic thumbnails to each series and then present the series images in blog style under another (and the user scrolls from top to bottom).
Keep it up!
If possible though, skip the flash stuff and build something easier to navigate through. Why not just have classic thumbnails to each series and then present the series images in blog style under another (and the user scrolls from top to bottom).
Keep it up!
NaChase
Well-known
Hey Vieri, I perused your website and found a lot of cool shots, albeit it did take a minute or two to figure out how to navigate the site. Other than that I thought it was very well done and I liked the aesthetic.
mathiasprinz
Established
Thanks for sharing! Maybe this thread would rather fit into the Members Only / Intros part, because it´s rather about showing Photos than discussing gear - which is a good thing. But what the heck, right?
I like most of your photos. Most are shots of a good photographer, some (more than just a few!) are great. What can i say? It´s a lot of photographs to be talking about. Maybe that is a thing: If you ask me, you could delete 5-10 photos from each of your reportages to round things up. There´s no »bad« photos in there, but ten great images next to each other are way more appealing than one great, followed by two okay, summing up to 40 or so. Just my train of thought.
Some words about the website: Flash is fancy, but I still don´t like it for several reasons. First is loading time (depending on your connection) and processor time (depending on your processor). It runs kinda okay with my 3 year old mac and not okay on my netbook. Most of peole have worse connections AND computers than I do, and they are just as impatient as I am. So what you do with flash is limiting your audience. Second is style, i´ve never seen a flash website that didn´t overstate. What´s with the getting darker to the left and right-background and what´s with the typo having the same effect vertically? That distracts from your photos. If it were a frame for a b+w print, would you paint it getting brighter in the middle? No you wouldn´t. You would pick one simple, understated color.
I know there a lot of effort in there (if you did it yourself, otherwise: money in there), but i think it´s overdone. A simple html/PHP-based two-color website would bring out your photos way better, would probably be easier to update and faster to load and use.
Keep on doing what you do!
Best,
Mathias
I like most of your photos. Most are shots of a good photographer, some (more than just a few!) are great. What can i say? It´s a lot of photographs to be talking about. Maybe that is a thing: If you ask me, you could delete 5-10 photos from each of your reportages to round things up. There´s no »bad« photos in there, but ten great images next to each other are way more appealing than one great, followed by two okay, summing up to 40 or so. Just my train of thought.
Some words about the website: Flash is fancy, but I still don´t like it for several reasons. First is loading time (depending on your connection) and processor time (depending on your processor). It runs kinda okay with my 3 year old mac and not okay on my netbook. Most of peole have worse connections AND computers than I do, and they are just as impatient as I am. So what you do with flash is limiting your audience. Second is style, i´ve never seen a flash website that didn´t overstate. What´s with the getting darker to the left and right-background and what´s with the typo having the same effect vertically? That distracts from your photos. If it were a frame for a b+w print, would you paint it getting brighter in the middle? No you wouldn´t. You would pick one simple, understated color.
I know there a lot of effort in there (if you did it yourself, otherwise: money in there), but i think it´s overdone. A simple html/PHP-based two-color website would bring out your photos way better, would probably be easier to update and faster to load and use.
Keep on doing what you do!
Best,
Mathias
JoeV
Thin Air, Bright Sun
Another reason for not using Flash is the increased popularity of viewing these websites in iPad tablets.
~Joe
~Joe
vieri
Leica Ambassador
Thank you everyone for taking the time to view and comment, and for the helpful and nice words on the site & the work in it.
I see some recurring thoughts coming up:
- WM: I am sorry about them, but had way too many image theft cases in the past and thus have been facing the choice of having bigger images (better viewing experience, but easy to steal) with a WM, or very small images without WM. I ended up with the former, thinking that the increase in image size, detail etc would make it up for the WM itself. WIll keep thinking about it though, thanks everyone for your opinions!
- the flash site; well, I generally like the way it works but I am not developing it myself, so there isn't much I can do to customize it (e.g. I cannot add links on the homepage images);for tablet & smartphones/iPhones, there is an HTML replica so that all devices can see it;
- design: the BG getting darker on the sides & same effect on the typo is just on the splash page, and was meant to give a "theatrical curtain" effect; inner pages are clean and based on different shads of grey; I tried a simpler splash, but felt this way it added some depth to the entrance. Will keep thinking with it though, thanks for the input!
- last but definitely not least, image selection. I know I could par them down a bit, but I feel I'd need a good editor to do so other than myself; we all know how difficult it is to evaluate one's own work, at least this is the way it is for me... I shall open application for an editor position!
Thanks again everybody, really much appreciated!