Sean Armenta wrote:
whoah whoah... hold on LOL

i edited my original reply to include a screen capture of eric's website so everyone could see that it was eric's image.  if i'm not mistaken, eric shot this at least a year ago, maybe two.


if you go to http://michaelromeostudio.com you will see that this guy actually photoshopped out eric's copyright notice.


so cut flesh&color a break LOL  you guys came in a bit late

thank you

flesh and color wrote:
like i said - i never saw the image on the guys site, just what was posted here.
Im not saying the image wasnt stolen.

I was defending my use of the word interesting instead of going off and calling him all sorts of names.


Because all that was posted here was an image with a copyright on it that doesnt proove anything.

it has now been edited to be a screenshot of the website of the owner now.

When you wrote that comment there was the post by Sean about the guy taking eric's pic.. Now.. how do you freaking prove anything online.. technically you can't.. BUT.. i know eric and i know sean and i know sean knows eric so sean would not say that this guy stole erics pic just cuz he didnt know what else to type on a friday!! To me the fact that sean wrote it.. is enough proof!

daxinho wrote:

When you wrote that comment there was the post by Sean about the guy taking eric's pic.. Now.. how do you freaking prove anything online.. technically you can't.. BUT.. i know eric and i know sean and i know sean knows eric so sean would not say that this guy stole erics pic just cuz he didnt know what else to type on a friday!! To me the fact that sean wrote it.. is enough proof!

DAX you're killing me man LOL which reminds me... we all gotta get together sometime, along with andres, christian, chung, chad, chip and maybe roberto if he can fly over

byReno wrote:

Ditto here.  I like it simple but maybe would like to add some simple flash.  Sill under construction.  I think it is loading too slow.  Comments welcome.

Sorry I forgot the link. 

http://home.comcast.net/~byreno/

Eric S. wrote:
I agree its good to get facts straight before making accusations.... this one was pretty obvious though

Once in Miami, I was standing with Dax, and some promoter girl handed Dax a promo card for Mynt, an obnoxious club in South Beach, and he looks at me and was like, "Isn't this your photo?"

It sure was. Stolen off the web and used to promote the club.

Whoa...that's one of the wierdest coincidences I've ever heard. I can't even imagine how much that would freaked me out (and pissed me off) lol

Sean Armenta wrote:
we all gotta get together sometime, along with andres, christian, chung, chad, chip and maybe roberto if he can fly over

That's a list of some great photographers.

But on the stealing note, it's a great thing that the fashion industry is still land-based, where physical portfolios do most of the talking. But as the internet world goes, eventually you will have to step up and produce the same quality of images that you're showing on your web page, whether you're working for a client, testing with an agency or simply doing TFCD with an MM model. Those that are doing the hiring are not stupid. It's the consistency of your work, the signature.

Christopher Bush wrote:
my site is very ghetto - www.christopherbush.com.  i wouldn't mind paying someone to do it right.  if anyone here has any *pro* recommendations, i'm all ears...

No, way.  Yours is one of the best ones.  You have photos, no music, no pop-ups, and the NEXT button doesn't move around.  That's all I want out of a photographer's website.

Christopher Bush wrote:
my site is very ghetto - www.christopherbush.com.  i wouldn't mind paying someone to do it right.  if anyone here has any *pro* recommendations, i'm all ears...

you know what, chris -- i've always liked your site.  cause it's not about the site, but it's about the work.  clean, minimalist, no nonsense.  images are big.  doesn't take 3 hours to figure out how it works.

now you just need to add more work on there

Christopher Bush wrote:
my site is very ghetto - www.christopherbush.com.  i wouldn't mind paying someone to do it right.  if anyone here has any *pro* recommendations, i'm all ears...

I told you before, you have one of the best sites there is...there's no need to go mucking up what is an already perfect site...other than changing photos around or adding more.

Legacys 7 wrote:

Whoa,

hold up, instead reading way too deep into my posting, perhaps you should ask if I'm taking any defense. But I'll answer that question for you, I didn't take any defense at all. Sometimes I think that some of you need to step back from the computer for a week or two. But now back on the subject, I went in made the changes by adding a preloader to the longer pages. Big difference.

Way, way better.....

Kaitlin Lara wrote:

Eric Striffler is the guy who actually took the picture...the guy who stole the picture was retarded enough to leave the name of the photographer right there on the picture.

No, his website shows the picture w/o Eric's name.

Experimental Photoworks wrote:
flowers, boudoir, portraits, product, and so on .....
any opinoions?

That would work. I'm finally building a site of my own. I'm planning on making it pretty simple. And quick to browse.

ChrisHughes wrote:
Im an amateur photographer (hobbiest), I often find myself looking at other photographers websites both amateur and pro and seldom find a decent looking website.

How can a photographer with a great eye for photos be so poor in designing a site to showcase their great work?

I wont state any examples, but does anyone notice this trend?

I built my site and others happen to think its very well do and differnt..
www.shadows-shapes.com
Woody

Brian Diaz wrote:

No, way.  Yours is one of the best ones.  You have photos, no music, no pop-ups, and the NEXT button doesn't move around.  That's all I want out of a photographer's website.

and here i was going to add some house music and a string of blinking lights that follows the cursor around....

thanks.

Sean Armenta wrote:

you know what, chris -- i've always liked your site.  cause it's not about the site, but it's about the work.  clean, minimalist, no nonsense.  images are big.  doesn't take 3 hours to figure out how it works.

now you just need to add more work on there

thanks bro!  i'm a horrible self-editor.  every time i think i have one good shot, i have to delete three others.  raising the bar and all that crap.

James Jackson wrote:

I told you before, you have one of the best sites there is...there's no need to go mucking up what is an already perfect site...other than changing photos around or adding more.

thank you sir.

James Jackson wrote:

Legacys 7 wrote:
Like I said, it's a first for me that I got this feedback like this.

It's always good to have feedback.  Perhaps a load movie with low rez previews of the great work they'll see inside would be helpful?


Strange...I tested in Firefox as well.  Were there any other sites open at the time?  Did it give you any error?  Are you tabbed browsing or windowed browsing?  Did it crash when you went to the home page or when you clicked to enter the site or on one of the gallery pages or on the contact or bio page?

Are there any other Firefox users who crash when going to http://www.raveneyes.com and using the site?



I am using firefox and no problem here..

I too do some webdesign as well as video editing and graphic design.

My photography portfolio is but one part of my website.

www.trueimageconcepts.com

There is some flash on the main page which anyone can skip right past.

The photos are navigated quite easily as well as the rest of the site.

the layout is actually modeled after the Playstation game Gran tourismo, the part of the game where you change te car settings. I really liked it and used some concepts.

Navigation and ease of use are always a concern. I dont design fr dial up users as most of my clients are corporate and they rarely are dial up.

for the clients I have designed for, they request I dont build in flash, though that trend is changing as computers get faster and broadband is expanding.

For strictly photgraphy you can get away with the basics, however I suggest not going that rout because the competition is getting fierce. Hire a pro and spend a few bucks, many people have no idea how important their site is when it comes to promotion.

Invest in yourself, it really does pay of. those $40 flash templates look like $40 flash templates and really do nothing to showcase your work and more importantly, tey do not give you an identity.

However, if budget is a mjor concern, buy a template then hire someone to customize it for you. Many of these template companies will customize a template for you and a pretty good rate.

Ive seen a lot of the SAME sites online..That always looks bad..


IMEO

V


Thanks for the feedback!

ChrisHughes wrote:
Im an amateur photographer (hobbiest), I often find myself looking at other photographers websites both amateur and pro and seldom find a decent looking website.

How can a photographer with a great eye for photos be so poor in designing a site to showcase their great work?

I wont state any examples, but does anyone notice this trend?

Guilty as charged... I'm an AWFUL web designer!  I can't even keep my site properly up to date!  Thanks God for sites such as this on and omp, etc, where I can send people to view my work without having to see how bad and old my site looks!  : D

I can't speak for anyone else, but here's the thing, at least as it applies to me.  I have very little creative sense.  A lot of my friends tell me otherwise, since I seem to be able to take nice photos, but to me, I don't really see that skill as CREATivity... I think of it more as having interpretive talents.  This is why I am a photographer, and not a painter, illustrator, writer, etc.  This is also why virtualy everything I shoot is outdoors in the environment, and not in a bare studio (my avatar notwithstanding!).  A lot of times, models ask me ahead of time what sorts of shots I think we're going to get, and I tell them I have no idea... and in most cases it's the truth.  I don't see anything until I'm out there, with the model, see what the light looks like, and the setting, and the clothes, etc., and it's more like "Here, put this on and go lay down over there!"  lol  I see it while I'm doing it, not ahead of time.

So back to the web design thing.... I can look at someone's site, and tell whether it's good or bad, or what I would change, but if I try to design something from scratch, I'll stare at a blank screen forever.  When I was in school, this was one of the bigest problems I had.  I would have a paper due, and NO idea how to even start.  I can proofread the HECK out of someone else's paper... my former roommate was severaly dyslexic and could barely write or spell... and I helped him graduate college with honors!  He'd get the ideas down (sort of), and I'd try to make them make sense!  Wasn't easy...  lol

I think it comes down to knowing what your own strengths and weaknesses are, and having a 'Good Eye' for photography in no means guarantees success at designing websites, or composing symphonies, for that matter.  To me, it's different skill sets entirely.

-T-

James Jackson wrote:

Looks nice, I'd like to offer a word of advice, if you wouldn't like any, please don't read below:



I only learned this lesson a couple of years ago myself. Web browsers can only make up to 8 connections to your web server at a time so the more efficient way to do a site is to have larger images with image maps unless you need to do all the cutting for rollovers or the like.  It's also faster for a browser to render a more simplistic layout than all those tables you have to make up your navigation scheme.  To make it faster and load more seamlessly, consolidate the graphics and use image maps for your navigation.

Yeah, I know.. but there are some browsers that image maps are incapable of reading.

Christopher Bush wrote:
my site is very ghetto - www.christopherbush.com.  i wouldn't mind paying someone to do it right.  if anyone here has any *pro* recommendations, i'm all ears...

email my girlfriend Brenda at [email protected] and she'll contact you. Be sure to tell her I referred you in the subject heading.

her website is www.Mireku.com

and for the record 'you have a website', not a 'ghetto' website, gosh, sorry that word irks me and is totally overused

take care...

Nedjetti

James Jackson wrote:

Legacys 7 wrote:
Like I said, it's a first for me that I got this feedback like this.

It's always good to have feedback.  Perhaps a load movie with low rez previews of the great work they'll see inside would be helpful?


Strange...I tested in Firefox as well.  Were there any other sites open at the time?  Did it give you any error?  Are you tabbed browsing or windowed browsing?  Did it crash when you went to the home page or when you clicked to enter the site or on one of the gallery pages or on the contact or bio page?

Are there any other Firefox users who crash when going to http://www.raveneyes.com and using the site?

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm using Firefox and had no problems!

Danny

Brian Diaz wrote:

No, way.  Yours is one of the best ones.  You have photos, no music, no pop-ups, and the NEXT button doesn't move around.  That's all I want out of a photographer's website.

I agree. I got a slick template for my site and pulled my hair out for three days trying to get it to work. Then I see his and think "wow, how simple and to the point".

But don't worry, Christopher, I have no plans to steal it!

Danny

Aein wrote:
Yeah, I know.. but there are some browsers that image maps are incapable of reading.

Incorrecto young lady...Image maps are backwards compatible all the way to lynx

Ibarra Photo wrote:
http://www.ibarraphoto.com

I make my living doing web design...

Great use of the SlideShowPro application! Looks good!

Danny

Ibarra Photo wrote:
http://www.ibarraphoto.com

I make my living doing web design...

Very nice!  This is the kind of site (flash) I would like
mine ( http://home.comcast.net/~byreno/ ) to be.

I really have to learn Flash.

Aein wrote:
Hm, I'm a model so I guess I don't count... but I did design my own portfolio and I don't think it's crappy. ( http://heartography.com/la )

Your site can not be viewed correctly at 800x600 res.

Sean Armenta wrote:

that's funny... i need to say that you should probably use your own images on your website, and not steal images from other photographers...

cause you sure as hell didn't shoot this:

LOL

Michael Romeo wrote:
http://www.MichaelRomeoStudio.com          Dont Need to say more

Yeah. I think you need to say more. But too bad. You've been silenced. Asshole.