Aydelette Kelsey
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It amazes me that I've waited so long to do this. If you have time to look over my photos at http://www.akcreative.com I'd appreciate your feedback.
Thank you,
AK
Thank you,
AK
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Richard B.
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Hi Aydelette,
Some very nice pictures, beautiful colors and composition. I love the landcapes with the layers of gray going into the dstance.
On the web site you could use larger thumbnails. On my monitor at 1280 x 1024, the thumbnails are only tiny squares of color - you don't have too much idea of what the picture might be. Not sure if you plan to use you site for promoting you material commerically, but if you do you probably want a more conspicuous link for someone to contact you.
But again, beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing,
Richard.
Some very nice pictures, beautiful colors and composition. I love the landcapes with the layers of gray going into the dstance.
On the web site you could use larger thumbnails. On my monitor at 1280 x 1024, the thumbnails are only tiny squares of color - you don't have too much idea of what the picture might be. Not sure if you plan to use you site for promoting you material commerically, but if you do you probably want a more conspicuous link for someone to contact you.
But again, beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing,
Richard.
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Thank you, Ivan. I was starting to wonder if no response indicated an appalled silence.
AK
AK
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Thank you Richard. I very much appreciate the feedback.
I do use the site to show clients the kind of work I do. I always worry about the casual 800x600 browser and hadn't even thought about
higher resolutions so this is an eye opener.
AK
I do use the site to show clients the kind of work I do. I always worry about the casual 800x600 browser and hadn't even thought about
higher resolutions so this is an eye opener.
AK
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Aydelette Kelsey
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Aydelette Kelsey
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Criticism? Advice?
Otto Behrens #100144
Forum Enthusiast
Hi Aydelette,
I think your pictures are very good and the presentation is also okay. Did you make the internet-site by yourself or is that a "ready-program"? What camera do you use and are you in travelling-business?
Thanks.
Otto
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Otto,
I did create the internet site myself based on my many browsings of other sites. It's a very simple use of frames with borders and a transparent overlay with one border on top of the graphics themselves. It is not sophisticated enough, for example, to resize based on browser or screen resolution.
All of the shots were taken with a D30. I do travel as much as I can, on business and for pleasure. I'm only now branching into photography after a couple of years of using stock photo suppliers for graphics clients.
AK
I did create the internet site myself based on my many browsings of other sites. It's a very simple use of frames with borders and a transparent overlay with one border on top of the graphics themselves. It is not sophisticated enough, for example, to resize based on browser or screen resolution.
All of the shots were taken with a D30. I do travel as much as I can, on business and for pleasure. I'm only now branching into photography after a couple of years of using stock photo suppliers for graphics clients.
AK
brendan j harley
New member
Hiya,
I like the site. I really love the photo of the green leaf.
good luck
I like the site. I really love the photo of the green leaf.
good luck
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Thank you.
I thoroughly enjoyed viewing your gallery. Particularly the portrait of the young boy. You captured it perfectly.
What sort of camera did you use?
GREAT WORK
What sort of camera did you use?
GREAT WORK
- Joe
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Thank you Joe. The boy alone and the boys together were all very generous with me. They made me want to stay in Ecuador, to sit and find out all about them.
AK
AK
These are really nice photos, Aydelette.I like your website photo browser too....I don't think I've seen one like it before. Good work !
Regards, Beiklo
Dirk Vermeirre
Forum Pro
Hi Aydelette,
First I wish to give you a compliment on the concept and layout of your website, very nice and tastefull, great. Did you make it yourself ?
Also loved the quality of the pictures, especially the landscapes, wish that there were more and also loved the shots of the grean leaves, very nice. I loved also to see these strange and colorfull animals and plants that I've never seen before. Thanks for sharing and I hope to see more soon.
With very kind regards,
Dirk
http://www.pbase.com/dievee
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Thank you Dirk. It's pretty clear to me that, though kind, the responses to my photos are fairly lackluster. . . . I don't blame folks for hesitating to offer anything less than positive in a public forum. It's very difficult, I find, to get specific criticism. I may look for some local feedback.
Would you be interested in an informal, ongoing photo critique swap?
I had just shown your galleries to my husband when I read your message. I love your quirky eye and I love the way your titles sometimes complete your images -- bringing out a geometric dimension or tracing a line from hue to hue, or emphasizing a pattern. Sometimes we laughed out loud.
Some of your very stark color shots (the dark portholes, the one called color blind) are my favorites.
Would you be interested in an informal, ongoing photo critique swap?
I had just shown your galleries to my husband when I read your message. I love your quirky eye and I love the way your titles sometimes complete your images -- bringing out a geometric dimension or tracing a line from hue to hue, or emphasizing a pattern. Sometimes we laughed out loud.
Some of your very stark color shots (the dark portholes, the one called color blind) are my favorites.
Robert M28897
Senior Member
Aydelette,
First off, don't be discouraged by the lack of feedback. You've come onto the forum at a time when things are generally slower in most online forums anyway (the middle of the summer), and things are especially slow here because of a transition involving a number of regular contributors. I myself used to contribute and comment quite often, but have had to spend much more time involved with work and other obligations, and have tended to spend more time at a specialty site for owners of the film camera I use currently (a Contax G2).
I personally enjoyed your gallery design quite a bit, even though the thumbnails were on the smallish side. A broad observation that could be considered a criticism is that the variety of subjects is pretty wide, and this it becomes difficult for the average viewer to get a read on what they might encounter as they navigate through the gallery and the tiny thumbnails. But for my interests in photography, which range widely, your format is pleasing because it introduces the element of surprise with each new image, and there is enough in common between most of the images (a strong sense of color, open-ended compositions, creative use of depth-of-field, and a general sense of abstraction) that the journey doesn't feel disjointed if one is sufficiently open-minded.
With that said, I might try to group the images loosely into some themes, while still trying to be creative (i.e. avoiding obvious categories like people, landscapes, etc)...but that really depends on the type of person you are. I've seen galleries work with very rigid classifications, and others work as one big stream of consciousness. The important thing is that the gallery communicate your vision, and that it should somehow convey the feeling that the process of exploration is ongoing. While I do feel that some of the images could be grouped differerently or even omitted, overall the sense of exploration and color is one of the most attractive features of your site.
(Just so you don't think I'm simply spouting psychobabble, let me be concrete about a few of your images. The close-ups of the green leaves, which could have been the most mundane images, are the most outstanding in my eyes...the transition between very sharp and very soft areas is managed extremely well. The bird shots, on the other hand, might need to be pruned or presented differently...the selection of images overall seems reasonably random in presentation early in your gallery, and then a whole sequence of bird shots follows to bring down the flow somewhat)
A couple of examples of galleries that I think work well, not so much on the basis of outstanding web site design (though they're very good), but more by the principles of vision and presentation, are as follows...you may have commented on one of them recently:
http://www.antonionunes.com
http://www.blackmallard.com/cal_ls/
You've also seen Dirk's galleries, which are very creative. There are many other talented folks with fine work, but this is just what comes to mind now.
Of course, I run off at the mouth, but I myself don't have any semblance of a gallery or even a semi-coherent attempt at image presentation.
I have images scattered around pbase, imagestation, a Contax G film camera enthusiast's site, and a small home page with Apple. Your example, and others, inspires me to give this a try, but as I'm not someone with any web design skills, I may fumble around in a fragmented way a bit longer. I shoot both digital (Fuji S1) and film (Contax G2), and honestly, the film images at the following URL:
http://www.contaxg.com/user.php?id=1288&showImage=1#Image
are probably most representative of my recent work, though I'm a notorious genre hopper. I also have images below, but they're old and scattered.
http://homepage.mac.com/rmirani/PhotoAlbum1.html
http://www.pbase.com/rmirani
Good luck Aydelette, and keep at what you're doing...it looks good, and can only get better!
Robert
First off, don't be discouraged by the lack of feedback. You've come onto the forum at a time when things are generally slower in most online forums anyway (the middle of the summer), and things are especially slow here because of a transition involving a number of regular contributors. I myself used to contribute and comment quite often, but have had to spend much more time involved with work and other obligations, and have tended to spend more time at a specialty site for owners of the film camera I use currently (a Contax G2).
I personally enjoyed your gallery design quite a bit, even though the thumbnails were on the smallish side. A broad observation that could be considered a criticism is that the variety of subjects is pretty wide, and this it becomes difficult for the average viewer to get a read on what they might encounter as they navigate through the gallery and the tiny thumbnails. But for my interests in photography, which range widely, your format is pleasing because it introduces the element of surprise with each new image, and there is enough in common between most of the images (a strong sense of color, open-ended compositions, creative use of depth-of-field, and a general sense of abstraction) that the journey doesn't feel disjointed if one is sufficiently open-minded.
With that said, I might try to group the images loosely into some themes, while still trying to be creative (i.e. avoiding obvious categories like people, landscapes, etc)...but that really depends on the type of person you are. I've seen galleries work with very rigid classifications, and others work as one big stream of consciousness. The important thing is that the gallery communicate your vision, and that it should somehow convey the feeling that the process of exploration is ongoing. While I do feel that some of the images could be grouped differerently or even omitted, overall the sense of exploration and color is one of the most attractive features of your site.
(Just so you don't think I'm simply spouting psychobabble, let me be concrete about a few of your images. The close-ups of the green leaves, which could have been the most mundane images, are the most outstanding in my eyes...the transition between very sharp and very soft areas is managed extremely well. The bird shots, on the other hand, might need to be pruned or presented differently...the selection of images overall seems reasonably random in presentation early in your gallery, and then a whole sequence of bird shots follows to bring down the flow somewhat)
A couple of examples of galleries that I think work well, not so much on the basis of outstanding web site design (though they're very good), but more by the principles of vision and presentation, are as follows...you may have commented on one of them recently:
http://www.antonionunes.com
http://www.blackmallard.com/cal_ls/
You've also seen Dirk's galleries, which are very creative. There are many other talented folks with fine work, but this is just what comes to mind now.
Of course, I run off at the mouth, but I myself don't have any semblance of a gallery or even a semi-coherent attempt at image presentation.
I have images scattered around pbase, imagestation, a Contax G film camera enthusiast's site, and a small home page with Apple. Your example, and others, inspires me to give this a try, but as I'm not someone with any web design skills, I may fumble around in a fragmented way a bit longer. I shoot both digital (Fuji S1) and film (Contax G2), and honestly, the film images at the following URL:http://www.contaxg.com/user.php?id=1288&showImage=1#Image
are probably most representative of my recent work, though I'm a notorious genre hopper. I also have images below, but they're old and scattered.
http://homepage.mac.com/rmirani/PhotoAlbum1.html
http://www.pbase.com/rmirani
Good luck Aydelette, and keep at what you're doing...it looks good, and can only get better!
Robert
Aydelette Kelsey
Active member
Robert,
Thank you very very much for your thoughtful response. Your suggestions about thematic arrangement and flow are particularly helpful. The galleries you recommend are also inspiring.
It helps a lot to get feedback from a photographer of your obvious skill.
Again thanks,
Aydelette
Thank you very very much for your thoughtful response. Your suggestions about thematic arrangement and flow are particularly helpful. The galleries you recommend are also inspiring.
It helps a lot to get feedback from a photographer of your obvious skill.
Again thanks,
Aydelette
First off, don't be discouraged by the lack of feedback. You've
come onto the forum at a time when things are generally slower in
most online forums anyway (the middle of the summer), and things
are especially slow here because of a transition involving a number
of regular contributors. I myself used to contribute and comment
quite often, but have had to spend much more time involved with
work and other obligations, and have tended to spend more time at a
specialty site for owners of the film camera I use currently (a
Contax G2).
I personally enjoyed your gallery design quite a bit, even though
the thumbnails were on the smallish side. A broad observation that
could be considered a criticism is that the variety of subjects is
pretty wide, and this it becomes difficult for the average viewer
to get a read on what they might encounter as they navigate through
the gallery and the tiny thumbnails. But for my interests in
photography, which range widely, your format is pleasing because it
introduces the element of surprise with each new image, and there
is enough in common between most of the images (a strong sense of
color, open-ended compositions, creative use of depth-of-field, and
a general sense of abstraction) that the journey doesn't feel
disjointed if one is sufficiently open-minded.
With that said, I might try to group the images loosely into some
themes, while still trying to be creative (i.e. avoiding obvious
categories like people, landscapes, etc)...but that really depends
on the type of person you are. I've seen galleries work with very
rigid classifications, and others work as one big stream of
consciousness. The important thing is that the gallery communicate
your vision, and that it should somehow convey the feeling that the
process of exploration is ongoing. While I do feel that some of
the images could be grouped differerently or even omitted, overall
the sense of exploration and color is one of the most attractive
features of your site.
(Just so you don't think I'm simply spouting psychobabble, let me
be concrete about a few of your images. The close-ups of the green
leaves, which could have been the most mundane images, are the most
outstanding in my eyes...the transition between very sharp and very
soft areas is managed extremely well. The bird shots, on the other
hand, might need to be pruned or presented differently...the
selection of images overall seems reasonably random in presentation
early in your gallery, and then a whole sequence of bird shots
follows to bring down the flow somewhat)
A couple of examples of galleries that I think work well, not so
much on the basis of outstanding web site design (though they're
very good), but more by the principles of vision and presentation,
are as follows...you may have commented on one of them recently:
http://www.antonionunes.com
http://www.blackmallard.com/cal_ls/
You've also seen Dirk's galleries, which are very creative. There
are many other talented folks with fine work, but this is just what
comes to mind now.
Of course, I run off at the mouth, but I myself don't have any
semblance of a gallery or even a semi-coherent attempt at image
presentation.
imagestation, a Contax G film camera enthusiast's site, and a small
home page with Apple. Your example, and others, inspires me to
give this a try, but as I'm not someone with any web design skills,
I may fumble around in a fragmented way a bit longer. I shoot both
digital (Fuji S1) and film (Contax G2), and honestly, the film
images at the following URL:
http://www.contaxg.com/user.php?id=1288&showImage=1#Image
are probably most representative of my recent work, though I'm a
notorious genre hopper. I also have images below, but they're old
and scattered.
http://homepage.mac.com/rmirani/PhotoAlbum1.html
http://www.pbase.com/rmirani
Good luck Aydelette, and keep at what you're doing...it looks good,
and can only get better!
Robert
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