The new website is finally up and running; been working on this for a while and I’m very happy with the way it’s looking. After a lot of consideration I went with a site from A Photo Folio which was founded by Rob Haggart of the A Photo Editor blog; the latter is a great resource and definitely worth bookmarking. The site is exactly what I like; a clean, slick layout and navigation with all the emphasis on the images; no bells or whistles, no gimmicks, just easy and intuitive navigation with some nice features like the ‘email this image to a friend’ option and image info available at a click. The back end is great also which will make updating nice and easy; that’s important as I like to keep my site updated with new images, and I plan to add some behind the scenes footage to the video section as and when.
My latest portfolio edit; filmed using the Canon G9 point and shoot. The auto-exposure on the G9′s video mode is a little annoying but it’s pretty good for such a small camera.
Photographed above is a quick promo mailer that I sent out at the beginning of this week featuring one of my portraits of the winner of this year’s Tour de France Alberto Contador of the Astana team. I saw the Moo Notecards some time ago and liked the format, and a big plus with Moo products is that you can order a short run so perfect if you’re only sending the mailer out to a select few clients. I wanted to get these in the post the day after the Tour de France ended so with about a week to go in the 2009 Tour I took a gamble and placed the order as it was looking like Contador was well positioned to take his second overall victory; fortunately the gamble paid off and Contador won the race by over four minutes.
A video featuring my new portfolio; despite the fact that a print portfolio could be considered to have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the internet it’s still an invaluable tool to have; printed images have a quality to them that you just don’t get from a computer monitor, and it’s nice to have an excuse to actually meet with prospective clients face-to-face, as after all, you can’t really gain an understanding of a person or company via the web, regardless of how good their website may be. If you’d like to view my book please get in touch.
