This week I mainly did a lot of work on my website and had my first photoshoot about charcoal. I'm just attaching teeny tiny thumbnails because I have not gone through them at all yet.
I deleted all of the carousels and put still galleries. On the client photography page it slides without clicking- what do you think about that? Should remain still? I also adjusted the colors on that page to a little more subdued but still unique from the rest.
Addressing the goal of the website - to show a fine art portfolio - I combined the two shop pages into one so it was less prominent.
I was looking at the photo projects to stay in or edit out and was wondering if cutting it down to 5 would be a good amount? Right now it has 7 projects. Right now I still have all of them up.
Going through I think my strongest are (in no particular order):
COVID19
Willoughby Spit
Aftermath
Melancholia
Dysphoria
I'm not sure if I think that just because they are deeper than the others or if the images are better. I had A Depiction of Apples on there to show a diverse range of work like still lives and because it was in a show. In my head, Tranquility is the most beautiful series I have made (other than just travel/nature photos) with composition and subject. I did not put any nature centered series (like my National Park Series) because I originally felt they were almost too cliche.
www.kieranrundleproductions.com
I'm also including the link to my client website in case you have a second to check it out. I'd love to know your ideas on what should be changed and how to make it better. It's a lot more "bubblegum" than my main website to cater more towards the clients I find myself working with. I know it needs serious work. While I've been adding to it over the years I haven't done a website fix in a while on it.
https://www.perkypugphotography.com/
Website thoughts
ReplyDeleteIt is really hard to delete work that you have deep feelings about, but it is important to narrow it down. Only your strongest work. Less is more. Why confuse the viewer with work that is not as strong. You do not need to show everything.
I would remove Aftermath. It was important for you to make this work, but it is not needed here. Remove haunted not sure why this is here. Both of these categories look like a student made them.
Remove Depiction of Apples and save 2 of the best for a new category perhaps… still life? Remove tranquility but save 2-3 of the best for still life category or think of a better name.
I would find a way to highlight a few of the pages from each book. No one is going to take the time to go through the whole book. You have some beautiful matchups with poetry and image and image and facts. Maybe even if you made a pdf that scrolled down so you don’t have to turn each page and have it too small to really read. Also, maybe you do not need all of the pages.
Dysphoria is excellent
Willoughby is excellent
I find the photos behind the information as in about, contact, series, unnecessary and confusing. If you want to use that photo put it into a project or instead of still life think of a heading that summarizes a bundh of unrelated stuff.
Rearrange your headings: Home about photo series sincerely mag client shop (I would not have this category but that is up to you) contact
Also I think you should change the photo on your home page. That should be either your best photo ever that sums you up or a really nice photo that sets a scene. What ever it is it should make the viewer want to go further.
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