You don’t know how much work it takes to get to this point. My advice to new photographers is don’t do your own websites…for example, Flash 10 now behaves differently with respect to security. What this really means is that everything needs to get updated just to work, I’m talking Wordpress, which publishes this blog, the Slideshowpro components I am using on the website, which include Director, and the new Thumbgrid. Oh, and while you are actually updating your site, you better update the site! Which was the point right?
I like it much better, and I hope you do too.
What you might notice; I have separated out “Work” which includes work produced on assignment and personal work, from “Assignment” which is published and unpublished editorial, and soon, Corporate and Interior images.
The idea here was steal from the best. Nadav Kander has things organized this way. The first thing you see is “Work”. This is what I do, and will (perversely) keep doing regardless of who is the client. There is no differentiation between Editorial and Advertising and Corporate clients. A picture is a picture. I hope this will allow me to focus what I do as “what I do” and be category neutral. It includes what I used to call Project work. I am not going to call them projects any more. To me it seems tentative and grasping. I just make work. You can figure out where it belongs. That doesn’t mean there aren’t titles to the work. Here I stole from Adam Bartos, who simply has a list of Projects as his portfolio. The whole site design borrows heavily from Raymond Meier, who’s site I think is really one of the best out there.
A first for me is serif! Adobe Caslon for the name and text. Not since the beginning days of NY where it was all Clarendon for me have I had a serif font anywhere near my branding. Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans of course, CityOf, which is a variation on Futura, and lastly an outline version of Interstate. Here are some old sites:
Please don’t say you liked the old ones better…
what have you DONE?? the old one is WAAY better….;)
Dude, it looks beautiful, so I hope you’ll forgive me for asking, but didn’t you just write a whole piece on the insidious dangers of branding?
when I answer the phone now I don’t say “studio!” I say “yes we can!…”
That’s HOT!
I can’t help but notice the similarity to this site, also built with SlideShowPro:
http://www.robertharrisphoto.com/
Interesting, eh?
yes the genre of photo websites is somewhat well travelled:)
You were able to do external navigation, I really don’t know Flash well enough to do that.