Title Ideas

Final Wireframe

After experimenting in Photoshop with some of the layout used in the previous wireframes, I found none of them were really very effective. I've created a new one like this which is working much better as a design.

Basic Wireframes

Second Project - Development

So after looking at the websites of existing photographers I can determine that they generally have simple designs, which makes sense since you wouldn't want to distract from the actual work. The colour schemes seem to include a lot of grey, with the odd splash of colour thrown in. To me this also makes sense since the website will be showcasing a number of photographs which could be made up of various colours, by using blacks, greys and whites you will be sure that none of the colours will clash.

The website for Sean McGrail, Photographer and Film Maker will:

• be simple
• be pretty
• have a grey, black and white colour scheme
• use a splash of red here and there
• include a Flash gallery, slideshow and navigation (this may change)

This has been worked out with the client to work around my project. Not too sure about the flash at the moment, I want to have a slideshow on the main page that cycles through photographs automatically, but as I will also be including a proper gallery I'm not too sure if these are too similar to count as two different elements towards the required three.

Photographers

I've been looking at the websites of existing photographers to get ideas and inspiration. There seems to be a general theme of simplicity in the sites.

Mattstuart.com

This is a really nice website, simplistic clean design, visually effective and includes cool Flash elements. The heading for the website is in Flash and changes as you navigate around the site. In this screenshot of the homepage it says 'Matt Stuart Captures Cops' but on other pages 'Matt Stuart Frames Strangers', 'Matt Stuart Shoots Rabbits' and 'Matt Stuart Exposes Himself' which I rather like. Colours are very basic, using just greys, blacks and whites in the actual design, with brightness only being added through the actual photographs.

Carlwarner.com

The main page here looks nice and simple, but overall I'm not really a fan of this design. When you click the links to the different pages they open in a new window, all of this being Flash-based. I just find this a bit annoying. However, I like the colours that have been used, with minimal amounts of bright elements against a dark grey background. The work is also very good, look at the 'foodscapes'!

Stevenbrooksphotographer.co.uk

This website is a little more decorative than the previous two though is still fairly simple. There is the same dark grey theme used here, along with a few simple flowers framing the content. I really like the use of typography in the headers here. Overall very nice!

Second Project

Been a bit slack on the posts lately!

For our second brief we are required to create a website for an artist or arts organisation which is designed to increase traffic or customers for the client. The site must have a minimum of five pages, include three different Flash elements and a journal page that populated by drawing on a MySQL database using PHP.

This project works out really well for me because my friend recently asked me to create a website for her boyfriend who is a photographer and film maker, so I can kill two birds with one stone. Not real birds.

Ideas and wireframes to follow...