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Cruxman Photography
Current rating: 5.3 (508 votes)
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- Added: 20 October 2004
- Designer: Scott Upton
Review:
I'm going to go straight to the point with this little photography site. I like the colors, layout, background, typography and the overall feel. The site uses the scalable flash replacement technique extensively, and it works really well. However, the content is quite thin and the photography sections seem empty and pale. I also get strange rendering problems with the menu in IE5/mac. Still, a nice little site with a solid message and straight-forward approach to how a photography site could be built.
Reviewed by David Hellsing
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I agree with your assessment of the content -- I am also hoping the client will add more photos in the near future! It's in his hands at this point (there's a PHP-driven admin on the backend for him to use when he elects to add more images).
Those wedding photos are pretty shocking! Surely they must have better one in the portfolio for the rates they charge?
Seven years of taking photos doesn't make a good photographer and the images don't gain vistors confedence either. For all I know he is shooting with a $200 camera. I would rethink what information and struture would benifit visitors. But I guess this isn't a site that showcases IA or content.
I really like the navigation treatment.
BTW: Are you sure Scott Upton did this? The site gives credit to groupthirytone, not Uptonic.
I agree, the wedding photos are almost wedding-photo irony. But stylegala is not here to showcase content, even though I love to see content that lives up to the design.
Sorry, please disregard my previous. I guess g31 has some other relationship to Cruxman.
Seven years of taking photos doesn't make a good photographer and the images don't gain vistors confedence either. For all I know he is shooting with a $200 camera.
Interesting... So shooting with a Nikon F4 or D2H instead of a $200 camera would instill more confidence in his audience? Seems irrelevant what equipment is being used.
I would rethink what information and struture would benifit visitors.
Can you elaborate?
I shoot with a Canon 10D, but I suck worse then most with a one time use camera. Didn't mean that the equipment reflected skill. I found that the site did not gain visitor confidence. I have no idea if it is a 15 year old kid, or a seasoned pro. All I know is for $150 dollars an hour I get The Cruxman to come to my event and take digital photos, and takes a few days to burn a CD of untouched images. I would personally talk more about experience, awards, honors, etc. My two cents.
I like the site's look & feel. Most photographer sites are bad. This site is nice.
I do not particularly like having the image thumbs on the left side of the page, with the full version on the right. Since there is a scant amount of content, it looks akward.
I agree on the picture quality. The nature pictures are much better and should be featured instead of the wedding photos until he gets better wedding photos up there. The wedding photos seem somewhat harsh. Good site design overall.
Nice site liked the layout.Wedding photos should be changed nature ones r not bad over all nice effort.
I hate it. I mean, I like the colours, but he didn't even take the time to make sure the menu worked in Opera, which really makes me mad. I can't give it any higher than a 5.
I am not impressed.Real Photographers do a lot better work then this one.I guess he needs a lot to learn.Check out THis Bride Page U sure will love It. http://ebride.da.ru