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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / February 2005Beginner needs comments about web site
While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate receiving advice on how to make the pictures/site better. Thank you. --David > While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted > some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate > receiving advice on how to make the pictures/site better. Thank you. > --David Awesome pictures, but I think the quality on the better ones is way too low. You'd be better to make them smaller instead, I know you're just protecting your work. Only the one gallery was up but it was really good! -- www.harryphotots.com >> While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted >> some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > www.harryphotots.com Yes, very nice pictures, especially the lighthouse shots, they appear pixelated though, make them a bit smaller and all will be well. >>> While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted >>> some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Yes, very nice pictures, especially the lighthouse shots, they appear >pixelated though, make them a bit smaller and all will be well. The pages can be resized by dragging the right side of the browser window to the left until the picture is quite small (IE limited). Does that help with pixelation? Resizeability may not be a good design. What do you think? --D > Awesome pictures, but I think the quality on the better ones is way too > low. You'd be better to make them smaller instead, I know you're just > protecting your work. Only the one gallery was up but it was really good! I agree, good pictures, but you should set the width of the image dimensions with html for true presentation. Currently you have the container [table cell] set to 85% of my browser width (1600 pixels when full screen) and you set your image width to 100% of that 85%, if you follow me. This means that a 600 pixel wide image will get expanded almost 3 times on my screen, that will never reflect the quality of your image and is going to cause problems for your images in almost any browser size. Use the following to set the image size correctly, it will help you images loads. <img src="Your_Image_Name.jpg" width="xx" height="yy" style="border: 10px solid brown;" alt="Place you image description in here" /> Hope that helps you a bit and hope I'm not telling grandma how to suck eggs with my comments, if you see what I mean. Si Great photos though!! >> Awesome pictures, but I think the quality on the better ones is way too >> low. You'd be better to make them smaller instead, I know you're just [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Great photos though!! Si, thank you for the much needed and welcome tutoring. Changes you recommended have been posted. --David > While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted > some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate > receiving advice on how to make the pictures/site better. Thank you. > --David I agree with the others about the display method you're using for your pictures, which seriously degrades their quality. Please consider the suggestions given, and I'm sure you could improve the website. Having said that, your images are stunning! :) http://www.ellisisle.com/gallery_4/view_pages/crw_0884_matted_889x553.htm http://www.ellisisle.com/gallery_4/view_pages/img_6303_matted_855x600.htm http://www.ellisisle.com/gallery_4/view_pages/img_5083_matted_421x600.htm This is simply terrific stuff, pro quality work all the way. How are you capturing the lighthouse beams? I like how you're clearly going out of your way to shoot in conditions other than broad daylight, using dusk and dawn to great advantage. Nice work - keep it up and keep posting!  Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Kohary mike at kohary dot com http://www.kohary.com Karma Photography: http://www.karmaphotography.com Seahawks Historical Database: http://www.kohary.com/seahawks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted >> some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >way to shoot in conditions other than broad daylight, using dusk and dawn to >great advantage. Nice work - keep it up and keep posting! During summer months I volunteer at Oregon lighthouses. The beams are photographed when there is enough fog to reveal them but not enough to obscure the lighthouse. The camera is on a tripod with ISO typically 400 and lens stop usually f2.8. Beam rotation is quite slow, generally about 10 to 30 seconds from one beam to the next. Thank you, Mike and others, for the encouragement. I've begun changes recommended and expect to have a revised site up by bedtime Friday (Pacific). I very much appreciate the comprehensive, wonderful responses. Your support provides a mighty fine way for a web-site neophyte to get started. --David > During summer months I volunteer at Oregon lighthouses. The beams are > photographed when there is enough fog to reveal them but not enough to > obscure the lighthouse. The camera is on a tripod with ISO typically > 400 and lens stop usually f2.8. Beam rotation is quite slow, generally > about 10 to 30 seconds from one beam to the next. Ah, fog - very clever. I had not thought of that. Now I'm going to have to try it myself. :) > Thank you, Mike and others, for the encouragement. I've begun changes > recommended and expect to have a revised site up by bedtime Friday > (Pacific). I very much appreciate the comprehensive, wonderful > responses. Your support provides a mighty fine way for a web-site > neophyte to get started. Good luck - glad to have you in the group! Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Kohary mike at kohary dot com http://www.kohary.com Karma Photography: http://www.karmaphotography.com Seahawks Historical Database: http://www.kohary.com/seahawks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted >some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate >receiving advice on how to make the pictures/site better. Thank you. >--David Some great shots. They are spoiled because of the width=100% in the image tags, which causes the browser to enlarge them beyond their natural pixel size. > While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted > some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate > receiving advice on how to make the pictures/site better. Thank you. > --David Get rid of the black background. David, Excellent work that shows lots of promise. I used the html writing guide posted here http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/ for some of the development of my site. You could also use the guide posted here http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html Keep up the good work, if you would like a banner exchange please send me one and I will be happy to exhange. Regards, SignatureCharles Puckle Please come and visit my updated photographic website at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/charles.puckle/ > While trying to become a photographer (strictly amateur) I've posted > some pictures at www.ellisisle.com Gallery 4 and would appreciate > receiving advice on how to make the pictures/site better. Thank you. > --David |
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