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today, Sunday, December 18 2005, I have officially opened my new site: http://www.greenteaphoto.com … Why another site? Because I wanted a place to put my photography portfolio. I have been thinking about moving my photography portfolio away from the more official http://www.francescogallarotti.com for a while. Recently I had the opportunity to get a domain name at a good price. I wanted a domain name that had a freshness and some reference to food and to Orient. I found that green tea was a perfect symbol of both food and Asia. So here I am, proudly presenting my new portfolio to every one in this forum. I would love to receive feedback both on the site design and on the photographic content. Feel free to contact me through messages, forum posts or emails. You will the contact information within http://www.greenteaphoto.com itself and in my profile.

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
Francesco said:
today, Sunday, December 18 2005, I have officially opened my new
site: http://www.greenteaphoto.com … Why another site? Because I
wanted a place to put my photography portfolio. I have been
thinking about moving my photography portfolio away from the more
official http://www.francescogallarotti.com for a while. Recently I
had the opportunity to get a domain name at a good price. I wanted
a domain name that had a freshness and some reference to food and
to Orient. I found that green tea was a perfect symbol of both food
and Asia. So here I am, proudly presenting my new portfolio to
every one in this forum. I would love to receive feedback both on
the site design and on the photographic content. Feel free to
contact me through messages, forum posts or emails. You will the
contact information within http://www.greenteaphoto.com itself and
in my profile.

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
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GMT
 
Got it now, thanks.

Had to kill my browser and reload.
mpixel said:
I tried them both and neither loads.

The old site loads just fine though.
Francesco said:
The first link is screwed by the ellipsis ... at the end. Follow
the second link ( http://www.greenteaphoto.com ). Sorry for the
inconvenience and thanks for the heads up!
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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.francescogallarotti.com/photo
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
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GMT
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GMT
 
ciao francesco!

i've just seen your new website (congratulations!).

It looks really nice, the design is "fresh" and not something-I've-already-seen-1000-times-before. I like it very much!

You come from a wonderful country and im sure you find a lot of inspiration from it, Italy has always been a great inspiration to so many artists in every field. (hmm should I tell everybody that im italian as well??)

I spent some time looking at your website and your photos.

I also like your photo style and your postprocessing tecnique, your detail gallery is interesting and full of nice interesting different "points of view". I've enjoyed it a lot.

The one thing i dont like very much about the website is that once u open a gallery you have to wait untill all the photos are loaded before you can see one... Anyway it's nice that once all the photos are loaded, it's nice to see them all passing from one to the next very quickly.

Well this is my comment :)
good work, thanks for sharing your photos with us.
ciao ciao

Giosky
 
I hate flash sites. They are so very very slow. It's like reading a book, you turn the pages and the book tells you to wait 5 minutes before you may start reading.

I am sure you loose many visiters because of this. At least I am not the most pacient person.

Imagine you visit an art gallery, and for every picture you want to look at you have to wait a minute or two. Your website is supposed to be your art gallery, show your art and not some programmers this and that.

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kind regards
Andreas Knoop
http://www.fotografiskstudio.no/
 
I really, really like the THUMBNAIL pages and what happens when you click on each one, BUT, I miss not being able to click on a picture/thumb and to get to see the pic in a full size and THEN clicking on the NEXT for instance.

Other than that, I like it

George
 
andkno said:
I hate flash sites. They are so very very slow. It's like reading a
book, you turn the pages and the book tells you to wait 5 minutes
before you may start reading.
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I like them, because Flash sites allow the designer a much smoother interactivity. I am targeting the site to people with at least a DSL connection. It doesn't take more than a few seconds for me to load the beginning, and if a visitor doesn't have the time to wait for the pictures to load while browsing them, then I don't really want that visitor on my site in the first place, because he/she is just wasting bandwidth and not going to really "see" the content.
andkno said:
I am sure you loose many visiters because of this. At least I am
not the most pacient person.
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I know that this is a consequence, but as I said, I don't care for losing the slice of people that don't have a few seconds to wait. If you want to see my pictures you will have to wait for a few seconds. It's a small price to pay to see some nice shots.... I am just kidding... I understand your concern and I wish there was a way to make things easier to download off the web. I am not a Flash guru, maybe there are better techniques that I am not aware of to preload all the pages when nothing else is happening (for instance when the user is spending those 4-5 seconds to take a look at a picture, it would be nice to have the downloading resuming in the background for other pages),
andkno said:
Imagine you visit an art gallery, and for every picture you want to
look at you have to wait a minute or two. Your website is supposed
to be your art gallery, show your art and not some programmers this
and that.
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That's an opinion and I respect that. But I truly believe that the dynamic interfaces that flash allows to achieve are going to be the kind of interfaces that you will see in the future.

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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
GIOSKY said:
GIOSKY said:
The one thing i dont like very much about the website is that once
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u open a gallery you have to wait untill all the photos are loaded
before you can see one... Anyway it's nice that once all the photos
are loaded, it's nice to see them all passing from one to the next
very quickly.
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I round that as soon as one loaded, you could put your mouse (my pen) over it and it would show and I could move through it as all the images loaded---and it moved fine without waiting for them all to load. I, too, thought you had to wait in the first portfolio, so found this out by chance. Not sure how you would communicate that to viewers though.

Like the images VERY much.

Diane
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Diane B
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/galleries
 
GIOSKY said:
ciao francesco!

i've just seen your new website (congratulations!).
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Grazie mille!
GIOSKY said:
It looks really nice, the design is "fresh" and not
something-I've-already-seen-1000-times-before. I like it very much!
You come from a wonderful country and im sure you find a lot of
inspiration from it, Italy has always been a great inspiration to
so many artists in every field. (hmm should I tell everybody that
im italian as well??)
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Let's keep it quiet :-)
GIOSKY said:
I spent some time looking at your website and your photos.
I also like your photo style and your postprocessing tecnique, your
detail gallery is interesting and full of nice interesting
different "points of view". I've enjoyed it a lot.
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Thank you very much! I love details, I love textures... With a macro lens sometimes you can discover a world with colors and lights totally different than the world that is around us.
GIOSKY said:
The one thing i dont like very much about the website is that once
u open a gallery you have to wait untill all the photos are loaded
before you can see one... Anyway it's nice that once all the photos
are loaded, it's nice to see them all passing from one to the next
very quickly.
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You can actually start looking at them from the moment the first picture is "loaded" (graphically when the white curtains disappear on the picture)
GIOSKY said:
Well this is my comment :)
good work, thanks for sharing your photos with us.
ciao ciao
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ciao e grazie!
GIOSKY said:
Giosky
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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
thank you William for stopping by.

I took a look at your site and I was pleased with the content of your site, a really beautiful set of pictures!

The only two things I didn't really like in your site are the contact page (what's the need for the scroll bar when everything could fit on the rectangle page if just you moved the comments under the picture?) and the about page (wayyyyy too empty.... almost as if contacting you wasn't important).
A very good site design overall. Kudos....
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Francesco Gallarotti
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photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
 
I wasn't the one complaining about the loading speed BUT, if I had to say something about the loading speed, it's the thumbnails. From the time the thumbnail comes up till they are all loaded is the time people MIGHT get tired of waiting. I didn't because I like your pictures but otherwise, I might have and I have a good speed DSL.

Let me ask you, are your thumbnails RESIZED to the actual picture size or do you simply have a tag that will resize it in the browser. I make it a point to resize every picture to the size it needs to be. Regardless of the speed of the connection I think the user has..

A lot more work but it makes a difference, EVEN on fast connections and especially with as many thumbnails as you have on some of the pages.

Ie, if you have the regular size picture UNDER the thumbnails so to speak vs a resized pic, you're talking 30-50k vs 1-2k for the thumbs.

George
 
Hi Francesco,

I like the site but like many others I found it very slow to load (once loaded it’s OK).

It seems that you have to wait two loads. One for the white squares to show that they have an image and one for this image to become available to view. I am on an un-congested 10 Mbps connection btw.

There are some really great images on your site, particularly under portfolio and especially under the portfolio/details section. However, if you are trying to break into food photography, I would have thought that your food images would have been given more prominence.

Having said that, I am sorry to say that I have a pretty strong criticism of the Uncle Jack’s section; all the meat images looked burnt and some of them looked burnt on the outside and raw on the inside. Also, I don’t think that the 11th image shows whatever it is showing to good effect.

I am not a food photographer but I do know that the way food is prepared for photography is not necessarily the way it is prepared for consumption. Of course that’s just my opinion and the meat images could have others licking their lips but I think the meat needed to be prepared differently before that session.

I see from your site that you are looking to work with food designers so I guess that you feel that you could do with some input from specialists in that field; hopefully you will be able to build an excellent book.
Francesco said:
today, Sunday, December 18 2005, I have officially opened my new
site: http://www.greenteaphoto.com … Why another site? Because I
wanted a place to put my photography portfolio. I have been
thinking about moving my photography portfolio away from the more
official http://www.francescogallarotti.com for a while. Recently I
had the opportunity to get a domain name at a good price. I wanted
a domain name that had a freshness and some reference to food and
to Orient. I found that green tea was a perfect symbol of both food
and Asia. So here I am, proudly presenting my new portfolio to
every one in this forum. I would love to receive feedback both on
the site design and on the photographic content. Feel free to
contact me through messages, forum posts or emails. You will the
contact information within http://www.greenteaphoto.com itself and
in my profile.

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Francesco Gallarotti
-----------------------------
photo portfolio: http://www.greenteaphoto.com
photo gallery: http://www.gallarotti.net/px
blog: http://www.gallarotti.net
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GMT
 
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