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Hello everyone,

I recently redesigned my website to incorporate flash.

I tried to keep it simplistic too.

let me know what you think

http://rickrphoto.com/

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1D Mark III | 5D Mark II | G9

Canon EF 24-70mm F2.8 L | 70-200 f4 L IS | 50 f1.8 II | 85 f1.2 Mark II L

580EX | 580 EX II

iMac, i7 MacBook Pro + Aperture & CS5 Master collection
My website

Nice site and nice photos.
Maybe it's my connection but the flash thing is really slow.
I recommend using less of it. Some may be frustrated by that.

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Radu
Canon PowerShot S100
Canon 50D , SIGMA 10-20 f3.5 ,Canon EF 24-105 L IS USM, Canon EF 100/2.8 macro Canon EF 50/1.4 ,Canon EF 85 f1.8,Canon EF-S17-85 4-5.6 Old Tamron 28-300 inherited from my Canon Rebel G film camera
Canon580EXII
http://www.errre.net

Great clean design, and the images load fast enough on my connection. did you use a CMS, and, if so, which one?

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I take pictures so quickly, my highschool was "Continuous High".

Thanks guys

I used bludomain.com to get a basic template then customized it for my own needs from there.

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1D Mark III | 5D Mark II | G9

Canon EF 24-70mm F2.8 L | 70-200 f4 L IS | 50 f1.8 II | 85 f1.2 Mark II L

580EX | 580 EX II

iMac, i7 MacBook Pro + Aperture & CS5 Master collection
My website

Looks good,but I wanted to close it after 3 seconds...it takes too long to load.

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Gear: Nikon D80, 18-105mm, 35mm F/1.8, 85mm F/1.8, SB-600
Visit my work here

About Flash:

It doesn't work on the iPhone
It doesn't work on the iPad
It doesn't work on most phones (Android 2.2 is the exception)
It is buggy on Linux (first time I loaded your page I got a black page)
Apple is no longer shipping it by default with OSX

First, I like the website design. However, there is absolutely no need for you to use Flash with this website. You could get website just as pretty using something like SmoothGallery and some of the jQuery stuff, with the added benefit that it will work everywhere.

My only actual criticism of the website design is your links fade to black when you hover over them, on a black background. Seeing links disappear when I mouse over them feels weird to me.

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Recent pics on flickr


Canon 500D, 18-55mm IS, 55-250mm IS, 50mm f1.8 II, 430exII

I also am working on a mobile version of the website that will work on iphones and ipads.

I created the splash page for people that do not have flash so if the main site will not work, they can atleast use my smugmug to view galleries.

For the main page the color scheme is black so when you highlight over the text they go away, however in other tabs the color of the text changes according to the section color.

I am working on changing the main page buttons to have a different color text

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1D Mark III | 5D Mark II | G9

Canon EF 24-70mm F2.8 L | 70-200 f4 L IS | 50 f1.8 II | 85 f1.2 Mark II L

580EX | 580 EX II

iMac, i7 MacBook Pro + Aperture & CS5 Master collection
My website

I like your website. I had no problems with load times and liked the layout. Also I love some of your nature photos.

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Camera: Canon 550D with battery grip
Lenses: Canon 24-105mm f/4L, Canon 50mm f1.4, Canon 18-55mm, Tamron 70-300mm,
Accessories: Manfrotto 055XPROB with 808RC4 head, Canon 430ex II speedlite, Lowepro Nova 180AW and Lowepro Pro Runner 450AW

Oh that is so lame, every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she’s a photographer -Stewie Griffin

very nice and loaded in ok times. It is a shame apple does not use flash, though not sure how well a portfolio would come across on a tiny little iphone screen anyway.

still, it would look good on an ipad if they allowed flash.

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http://www.parismetrotrash.com

Thanks so far,

I can get it to work on an ipad with a mobile html version of the site, however I am unsure if I want to bother with that considering if you go to the client galleries section from the splash page you can see them already.

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1D Mark III | 5D Mark II | G9

Canon EF 24-70mm F2.8 L | 70-200 f4 L IS | 50 f1.8 II | 85 f1.2 Mark II L

580EX | 580 EX II

iMac, i7 MacBook Pro + Aperture & CS5 Master collection
My website

Very nice layout, I like it.

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Flickr

its FAST! and very responsive on my mac. I really like it.

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
www.thomaslowe.com