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from Alan Gibson (Alan@snibgo.com)
I'm having to limp along with two half-working computers, and the sodding thing just lost my very detailed post. Try again...

Don't be discouraged, Shawn. I like your photos, some of them very much. But (there's always a but) the page design does them no favours. For example, the Barbara series. The individual images are strong, with feeling, very descriptive. Not conventional fashion, which I think you know. But together, the thumbs are crowded together top-left of my screen, each one bursting to expand into the acres of empty screen space. They are also slightly different colours, and have little commonality.

In 'barbrest' I like the shirt disapearing into the white backgound. That trick doesn't always work, but I like it here. I was disturbed by the knee being cropped off, but that it just a thumbnail problem.

You might consider reorganising the thumbnail pages. Instead of grouping by model, try some other stronger visual characteristic: pose, attitude, head vs half-length vs full-length, whatever. Probably larger thumbs, with more room to breath, perhaps max three per page.

Similarly, the larger versions of the images, which I really like, could use a better (or at least consistent) page layout. If the image is pushed to one side of the screen, there should be a good reason, rather than just a a blue half-screen, or even worse, a black one.

(posted 8803 days ago)

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