Thoughts on my website

[kaystewartphoto]

http://kaystewart.photium.com/

I will be purchasing a domain and setting up email forwarding later, but wanted some comments/critique :)

[deemarie]

IMO I feel the picture of the stairs used in your main needs to be straightened a bit, and the picture of the leaves is out of focus. Also I think if you are going to have a "people" section you need more then 2 pics.

[kaystewartphoto]

IMO I feel the picture of the stairs used in your main needs to be straightened a bit, and the picture of the leaves is out of focus. Also I think if you are going to have a "people" section you need more then 2 pics.

Im working on the "people" section, got a few shoots lined up with friends.

[BlueTreePhoto]

Your strengths seem to lie in the creative and urban areas. Those are cool. Keep doing those!

If you are going to do a site for business I would narrow down your categories. Also, only post your BEST shots. I have trouble with this as well and always go back and delete some I initially thought were awesome, then decided weren't great. For example, some of the landscape ones are like snapshots (the bare woods) and there isn't anything spectacular about them. In sports there isn't anything exciting about a plane flying by... IMO. Other than the B&W one, the still life photos are nothing spectacular... if you are marketing yourself I'd eliminate that section.

I think I understand why you posted all that you did- I get excited about how things turn out or I think it looks awesome with my eye, but the photos don't depict it the way I felt about it.

I can't say much about your people section with only two shots, but it seems you have a creative eye for photographing people.

Hope this helps you some... I too am looking for advice on my site so I am trying to offer advice in the way I want it offered to me!

[kaystewartphoto]

Your strengths seem to lie in the creative and urban areas. Those are cool. Keep doing those!

If you are going to do a site for business I would narrow down your categories. Also, only post your BEST shots. I have trouble with this as well and always go back and delete some I initially thought were awesome, then decided weren't great. For example, some of the landscape ones are like snapshots (the bare woods) and there isn't anything spectacular about them. In sports there isn't anything exciting about a plane flying by... IMO. Other than the B&W one, the still life photos are nothing spectacular... if you are marketing yourself I'd eliminate that section.

I think I understand why you posted all that you did- I get excited about how things turn out or I think it looks awesome with my eye, but the photos don't depict it the way I felt about it.

I can't say much about your people section with only two shots, but it seems you have a creative eye for photographing people.

Hope this helps you some... I too am looking for advice on my site so I am trying to offer advice in the way I want it offered to me!

Thank you for your advice.
The still life photos are hobbys of myself and my family (i have a collection of dolls houses and my dad is into railways), and i would like to think that through contacts of ours i would be able to get some business photographing these kind of things. The same also goes for the planes, my dad flys RC planes, and i am going to start learning.

[BlueTreePhoto]

Thank you for your advice.
The still life photos are hobbys of myself and my family (i have a collection of dolls houses and my dad is into railways), and i would like to think that through contacts of ours i would be able to get some business photographing these kind of things. The same also goes for the planes, my dad flys RC planes, and i am going to start learning.

Okay, clarification with those helps :) I love doll houses and miniatures are cool... I was just thinking for a website to get paying customers might be a tough market. If you know people who are interested though that is great.

[43 North]

Looking good! THANK YOU for not having music on it! I hate when I click on a site and music starts blaring, I always click and close those sites and never go back...

[BlueTreePhoto]

Looking good! THANK YOU for not having music on it! I hate when I click on a site and music starts blaring, I always click and close those sites and never go back...

Yea, I agree- I hate that too!

[kaystewartphoto]

Looking good! THANK YOU for not having music on it! I hate when I click on a site and music starts blaring, I always click and close those sites and never go back...

I hate music on websites. That and bright colours that clash

[bank5]

I think your site looks great. I like clean photography websites like yours where the photos can speak for themselves.

A couple of minor recommendations would be:

1. the homepage - I love the vertical photos. However, I don't like how there's a lot stuff below the fold. You could link the vertical photos to your portfolio and remove portfolio thumbnails. Some people are more particular about having the homepage fit on a single screen, I guess I'm one of those people.

2. horizontal white lines. I don't like how the top one goes across 100% of the screen but the footer one is only ~800px. It looks uneven or off-center to me. I think they should both be the same size - ~800px.

3. I'd probably remove the search and links pages. The search doesn't seem to return anything. The links page is pretty empty so maybe you could put that under the about page?

Just my 2 cents...overall great job!