Help! need feedback for my website

Hey folks, I just applied for a grant using my website and was hoping to get some feedback on it. I'm hoping the grant pans out so I want my website to be as good as it can be. Need the money :/ Any feedback is welcome.

Kingofkodak.com

Thanks for taking the time to check it out! Let me know what you think

I checked it out, your photographs are beyond excellent. Seems that you and I have something in common, a love of wide angle lenses.
Very sensitive and well done work, you have a natural eye.

I just took a look at it. Very little if any to criticize. Good job!

I like the website.
Hope you don't have any trouble with Kodak's lawyers

I like the website as well, nicely presented .

Love the photos. Your site works well on my mobile phone.

jojoman2 said:

Let me know what you think

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Excuse me jojoman2

My first thought after taking a look at your website was "Wait! I saw some of those pictures before ...", the curious thing is that I remember exactly the ones that I liked then, in August!!!, here:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

If I can say a couple of things about the web I would say that:

I miss an easy "back to top" button
I miss in "about me" your words written in first person
I would welcome B&W and Colour in a different order

IMHO

Anyway, you have a beautiful eyes, congratulations Jonathan!

You did a pretty good job for your first website. Some thoughts.

Edit, edit, edit... Your images are a bit all over the place. Perhaps you should consider editing the images to more closely suit your concept. If that means less images, that is ok. A lot of the time (i.e. all the time) people can't evaluate their own images with distance because they have the memory of the feeling that they had when they took the picture. That often creates a problem when editing. It is usually helpful to have someone else do it for you. You may be surprised. Hand the images over to someone who knows what they are doing. Older photographers are great for that. If you do it yourself, start from scratch. Write a few words about what you want the images to say as a whole, then edit with that in mind. The best editors are distant from their own images. You have to be brutally honest with yourself. It is difficult to learn to be. Set the ego aside.

Your presentation is a little sloppy I think. A lot of the images have black borders only on one side or the border is sloppy. Some of the images have faded sides. I am not sure putting Polaroids in there is a good idea either. They stick out like a sore thumb, especially with your thumb in the image. I would suggest culling those and consider what you really want to do with them. As they are now, skip them.

On the upside, I think you have a lot of good images. I am not a big fan of street photography since so much of it is pretty terrible. You do a good job of it though. I think with some editing, and some closer attention to detail, you will have a really nice site.

Your photography is engaging but I don't know what we are suppose to comment on since you used a canned template service by the looks of things. I'm not sure how much flexibility WIX gives you to really do anything really outstanding or awful for that matter.

Hi,

I have to agree with some of the later comments...

First off, the website name worries me. Using a VERY well known company name as part of yours is just asking for trouble. Why not use your own name?

Some of the images jumped out at me because of the borders. Some are only on some sides and one or two need to be clipped a bit smaller, as they are fuzzy in places.

I don't mind the polaroids, but I think they need to be scanned to files, to ensure that they are flat, in focus, colour corrected and DON'T have one of your fingers in shot.

Overall, the pictures are good to very good but I feel the need to be put some in a different order in some places.

Finally, unlike a lot of sites, you haven't got anything to stop people copying or saving the files. Nothing wrong with that, just making you aware - it's your choice. As it happens a few sites that I've visited of VERY well know photographers also DON'T stop people from copying etc. so as I say, it's your choice.

Best of luck.

jojoman2 said:

Hey folks, I just applied for a grant using my website and was hoping to get some feedback on it. I'm hoping the grant pans out so I want my website to be as good as it can be. Need the money :/ Any feedback is welcome.

Kingofkodak.com

Thanks for taking the time to check it out! Let me know what you think

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