My New EE Portfolio, Feedback and Critique Please

[EricKonieczny]

A good majority of it was when I lived in South Florida, but about 25% from around Toledo, Ohio and surrounding areas. My specialty is event and music based photography with a marketing edge in mind when shooting.

It is all a work in progess, but a good start. I will be adding event galleries as they happen in the future and from a few past events.

Special Thanks to Pekka for his great work with EE.

Eric's Portfolio - Clich Here to Enter (http://www.ekreating.com/gallery/)

Enjoy and give me your feedback :D

[kb244]

(THIS IS A COMMENT ON THE SITE ITSELF, far as the pictures go, its better than anything I could have done)

Its interesting. The thing that seems missing is some kind of flow. For example, on the front page that I'm linked to. You do have a layout, top being basic navigation, right side being some information and so on. But the problem seems to be some kind of containment.

On yoursite its pretty obvious that color is your key containment. Black -> Gray -> Blue, with the lightest color drawing most attention to the eyes. Though I would probally recomend a nuetral color for the blue, like say a lighter gray to keep the flow.

The text on the front page in the blue area seems kind of floating, theres no definite restriction to the flow of the text, and the random images hangs off the end adding to this feeling. Perhaps if underneth the text would make it appear to fit better.

I'm not the greatest fan of giving viewers a bunch of numbers to look at but rather get right down to the point and allow them to goto any content that they feel free. I understand if this is beyound your ability because you are using a content management system (Exhibit Engine) versus writing one of your own like myself. I might recomend if possible if you really have no content to provide, and if you are already using the right side of the screen for messages that the first thing you see is the summary of all galleries on the front page as opposed to "Portfolio" and so on.

I do like how when you click a thumbnail you go straight to that picture as you should. But I found it rather confusing at first when I was fliping between the pictures on the top right of the page. That is until I found Gallery Browser, and also that by clicking on a gallery name it'll show you the same thing.

Again with the color thing, on your image viewing you have a somwhat warm gray, making the blue on your front page inconsistant again.

The gallery view, and I think this is due to the CMS you are using and not a choice of yours, the images are not consistantly aligned due to some being landscape orientation and some being portrait.

I guess what it comes down to in my opinion.

1) Color Consistantcy (changing that blue might solve most of it)
2) The flow of the page, try to find a way to 'contain' the content, this will help to make sure some readers dont feel like something is incomplete on the page.