Tue 18 Nov
2003

Snapshot of the Photographic Web

Posted 08:13 pm
Author Khoi Vinh
Categories Design, Web Design
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My latest assignment at Behavior is developing a portfolio site for a commercial photographer, so I spent a lot of time today looking at various photographers’ Web sites for research. There’s no shortage of these to be found online, which means there is a fairly well-established orthodoxy of ‘best practices’ — slick Flash animation, non-scrolling presentation areas (often in daughter windows, minimal true interactivity, the same three or four major sections — but it also means that many of them are more or less indistinguishable from one another.

A few of the sites that stood out: BruceRogovin.com, which obscures the photographer’s own images with navigation in an admirably single-minded manner. CarolAcord.com, which cleverly resolves the problem of non-standardized aspect ratios among its portfolio images. ChrisHallPhoto.com, which integrates its thumbnail navigation into the layout somewhat cleverly. My favorite was probably GeorgSchlosser.com, which makes somewhat perfunctory use of Flash, but makes up for it with a beautifully understated aesthetic.

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Tue 18 Nov 2003 at 08:38 pm
Naz

I’ve spent much time looking over photo sites. Almost obsessively so. One of my favourites is Jack Thompson Photo (http://www.jthompsonphoto.com) and Adopt Design (http://www.adoptdesign.com) specializes in the stuff practically.

It’s also probably the best use of Flash I see on the web. I almost always think that this is what Flash was made for, photography portfolio sites.

Wed 19 Nov 2003 at 11:13 am
Edvin Lee

Hi Khoi,

Remember me?  Rare Medium toronto.

Anyhoo, this site just launched today.  Taken from Newstoday.

It scrolls but makes image searching easier. http://www.mullerphoto.com/

Thu 20 Nov 2003 at 01:30 am
Ward

I am really into the mullerphoto site.

What kind of actionscripting is at work there?

I would be interested to hear more about how that works - are photos dynamically added, and Flash just calls them up?

Thu 20 Nov 2003 at 03:42 pm
edvin

I figured they are dynamically loading jpgs.  I love the presentation.  easy breezy!  you can visite http://www.newstoday.com I think Folkert did the design, you can ask him, I’m sure he’ll let you know.

Wed 11 Jan 2006 at 12:40 am
Emil

Hi there,
Jason Kristofer of http://www.more-better.com did the design for mullerphoto. I did the scripting for front-end and back-end. Glad you like. :)

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