I would very much appreciate a website critique if at all possible from all of you great photographers out there. Composition/Style/Content/Ease of Use/Etc.

Thanks...


www.suspendedmotion.com

Very nice work, which speaks for itself, or should. That being so, you don't really need the new agey musings you have in there; or, if you can't live without them, put them in a separate artist's statement so visitors can find out the basic skinny on you while ignoring the rest.

Therefore, I'd delete the entire first paragraph of your bio, and all but the last sentence of third paragraph. If your photos are effective in "pushing for social reform and awareness", that judgment will be made by the viewers based on the photos themselves, rather than upon your assertion of same. Likewise, let the photos themselves convey to the viewer that you are "creating a solid body of work". As for your being "centered" and "self-taught", no one to whom you are marketing yourself would really care about this; if an off-center MFA grad can deliver the goods better than you, she'll get the job.

Navigation is easy; the type is small for my inelastic lenses, and white type on black background is probably the hardest to read.

Best of luck to you. At least you have a website up while mine is stranded in development limbo (entirely my fault.)

Great looking images using black and white in the photojournalism tradition. I also like the way the website presents the images, and the other materials.

Very nice work, which speaks for itself, or should. That being so, you don't really need the new agey musings you have in there; or, if you can't live without them, put them in a separate artist's statement so visitors can find out the basic skinny on you while ignoring the rest.

Therefore, I'd delete the entire first paragraph of your bio, and all but the last sentence of third paragraph. If your photos are effective in "pushing for social reform and awareness", that judgment will be made by the viewers based on the photos themselves, rather than upon your assertion of same. Likewise, let the photos themselves convey to the viewer that you are "creating a solid body of work". As for your being "centered" and "self-taught", no one to whom you are marketing yourself would really care about this; if an off-center MFA grad can deliver the goods better than you, she'll get the job.

Navigation is easy; the type is small for my inelastic lenses, and white type on black background is probably the hardest to read.

Best of luck to you. At least you have a website up while mine is stranded in development limbo (entirely my fault.)

I looked at your website and then the posts on the thread. These were exactly the thoughts I had.

On my monitor the thumbnails of your images were a bit small with a lot of blank space around them. I would prefer it if the thumbnails were larger.

You've made some incredibly powerful photographs. On your website I've only gone to the galleries so far, but that's what I'm interested in the most.

I was held through "Portfolio 1" and through "New Orleans". My worry is that people might lose interest in Portfolio 2 because the first 16 photographs are not as powerful as the earlier galleries, yet the latter part of portfolio 2 may be the strongest of all.

Oh, one more thing...seldom have I seen somebody as adept compositionally in B&W as in colour!!!

Murray