Need some view points

[Ron]

My studio website is grossly out of date and I'm starting to work on updating it. I was playing around with something and wanted to know if I pulled it off.

I'd like to know what impression this gives you, does it look like a mistake? or does it look like something more real? What does it appear to be to you?
http://www.zing.com/picture/pc54a533...d.jpg.orig.jpg

I thought about using it as a entry page to the site, but not sure if visitors will perceive it as I do. Images were shot with D30.

[This message has been edited by Ron (edited April 02, 2001).]

[Tom_Coles]

Ron,

I like the idea. It reminds me of standing at the front door of a studio and your eyes are focused on the name of the studio. I'm not sure though what is at the very bottom of the image. It looks like the edge of a table or something. I would remove that.


What program are you using to set up your site?

Tom Coles

[Ron]

I use what ever tool I need for the idea, I use Director, Flash, Frontpage, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, pshop, etc.

Thanks for the comment, that is what I was trying to pull off - but when I show people here they look puzzled and don't see what I'm doing until I explain it. Then they say "oh yeah now I see it". So I didn't know if I should use it.

I apparently have to fix the bottom, what you are seeing through the glass with the studio name on it is a wood floor, white baseboard molding and then the wall with a framed picture. I shot a picture on the wall in my kitchen, (which is where the pic, lighting, wall, molding and floor come in, but I had to smear the floor a bit and I think I lost the wood look. My daughter thought it was a counter. Possibly if I added something to the floor, like those long flat benches that are often at galleries. Or even a plant or something to clarify that it's a floor and baseboard.


[This message has been edited by Ron (edited April 01, 2001).]

[Noel_Carboni]

Nice, Ron.

My first impression is that I've walked up to your clean glass front door and am looking through it at a photo on the wall. However, the stuff at the bottom comes off as maybe a desk in the way or a counter or something like that, rather than a wood floor, which is what I think you might want to try to show. An open lobby implies luxury. It would look more like a floor if you crop some of it off the bottom, and/or maybe make it sharper toward the bottom. Also, I might crop a little tighter on the top, too. Perhaps you might even put a virtual lamp, plant, etc. beside the image of your wife.

The clean treatment you've given the image and utter lack of all grain exudes quality to those of us with very good video setups. It's cleaner than most other images seen on the 'net, and as such it sends a powerful message that you differentiate your work from the masses.

Keep in mind it's rather too large to fit on most people's screens (I think I'm rather an exception, running 1920 x 1200 on a 24" monitor). Be sure and check it out with 16 bit and 8 bit displays. Having been a webmaster for some time in the very early '90s, I used to have to work to the minimum common denominator: 640 x 480 x 16 colors. However, given today's more modern computer environment, I wonder if one can now assume at least 800 x 600 x 65k colors or perhaps better...

-Noel

[This message has been edited by Noel Carboni (edited April 01, 2001).]

[JörgenNilsson]

Ron !

A very clean an smooth result. That entrance sure could impress a customer to be.

I would also (as other have suggested) crop the bottom part and make it "more glass looking" perhaps by adding a glare or something in a corner. If you have put the logo ontop of the glass in Photoshop you could add a teeny bit of "effect" to the text to round the edges a bit. The image in backgrund looks good and the idea was pretty good, perhaps my homepage needs a new "door" as well.

Jˆrgen Nilsson
Portrait photographer
÷stersund, Sweden.

Noel,

Your assumption about more folk running minimum 600x800 screens is correct. I've just looked at my web stats for the past 3 months and it shows that only 2% of visitors were accessing with a resolution of less than 800x600. The figures are:-

640x480 2.1%
800x600 43.8%
1024x768 37.3%
1280x1024 5.7%
>1280x1024 11.1%

Similarly it reported that only 1.5% of visitors were accessing with only a 256 colour palette.


[This message has been edited by Carol Steele (edited April 01, 2001).]

[FlyAngel]

Ron,
What I find a bit confusig with your image, is a matter of scale.
There is no reference point I can guess the size of glass and of the room behind.
Floor is uniform blurred so there is no perception of deep. I'd like to see 2 or 3 famed pictures filling the wall,and a piece of furniture, and if the front glass is door sized, a progressive blurring of floor.

-AGL

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