Navigation bars

With Anrike Piel's website design in mind I have played around with the navigation bar on my own website. One problem with having the navigation bar at the top of the page is that when you click on it to see the options, my menu bar is so long that it fills half the page. To rectify this I will remove the menu options and I may see what it looks like with a different colour.

I have settled upon this white header with permanent links to other pages. This is for ease of access as I found that with the previous header, clicking the corner icon to open and lower the menu options became tedious.

Website update

The types of landing pages that my website host offers.

I definitely prefer the firs two options as I feel like the grey band on the 3rd option covers the majority of the images and considering this is the first impression that the audience will get of me as a photographer, seeing this image is very important.

I have however, realised a problem with a landscape landing page.. the majority of my images are in portrait format. With this in mind I will go into my next shoots in search of landscape orientated images because not only will this be better for website use but also on blog feeds and to be used as a headers and in double page spreads in magazines. Portrait format can be very limiting.

Website design

I am actually very happy with my current website design.

I tweak it every time I upload a new set but removing old images no longer relevant to my style and portfolio and adjust fonts and layouts.

I have been looking at Anrike Piel's website as his photography is very relatable to my own. He works in high fashion portraits completing editorials for magazine which is my exact target audience when producing my work.

One thing I noticed that was paticularly different between my website and Anrike's is his opening page. I think this is really dramatic and demands presence when loading his website. it states his name and has a strong image which has been produced to an extremely high degree. This is the first thing anyone see's when viewing Anrike's website and portfolio and so it defines his images in a single second.

I much prefer Anrikes task bar in comparison to my own as it appears much sleeker in white rather than grey. The positioning of it along the top of the page is also unusual and is very rememberable. 

Michael Woloszynowicz

I found out about Michael's youtube tutorials through Kyle Grace when he taught his masterclass at uni a few months ago. I have been watching the tutorials in order to get better at retouching. This is really important to me and my practice as becoming a retoucher is a potential career route for myself and regardless of becoming a retoucher, knowing these things will benefit my photographic practice immensely. The standard of retouching that these video's is extremely high.

https://www.youtube.com/user/vibrantshot/videos

Expenditure

Expenditure.

As this is the final year I am in two minds about spending money during this project.
I know that it needs to be done in order to book models and makeup artists and have appropriate props that will all come together to create some fantastic images but I am also conscious of the fact that the portfolio and exhibition frames will be expensive and I will be moving house during the last term which is also very expensive.

- Average model cost - travel expenses - £10
- Average MUAH - £30
- £40 Per shoot per week
7 weeks x £40 = £280

Prop cost per week - £10 x7 weeks - £70

Portfolio cost estimate - £350
Paper cost estimate - £50
Exhib Frame cost estimate - £200

Total estimated expenditure for the next 7 weeks -
£950

(not to mention the £1,875 i have to pay upfront as i'm moving house soon)

Calendar

This is my timetable for the final project and exhibition commitments so far.

It will be updated throughout the rest of the project but it has important key dates on it such as hand-in dates, exhibition installation dates and when to have portfolio's done by.

I have added some of my own personal commitments into the planner as they may affect what I get done that week.