Edit: Photos By Coomer has been Renovated!, Check it out and give me some feedback Options

[Coomer]

Over the past few weeks, I've been super busy. I went on vacation, then came back and since then I've been working out and working at my job a lot, taking lots of pictures, and hanging out with my family and friends. I've also been working on a new site.

Photos By Coomer is my new photoblog, where I'll post photos every day or every few days or so.

As of now there are only a couple photos online since it just went live yesterday, but I'd appreciate it if you guys would check it out and let me know what you think. If you want to, you may comment on photos on the site as well. And if you like random photos, feel free to periodically check the site, as I'll constantly be updating it.

Let me know what you think.

Oh, I've also decided that I'm going to try to work on 6G Celicas at least one night per week, for a few hours with no interruptions, so that I can get a lot of stuff done that I've been meaning to do.

This post has been edited by Coomer: Sep 22, 2006 - 12:51 AM

[Coomer]

is the top banner tilted slightly? i swear it is or my eyes are just messed up.
the site looks good! keep up the great work, i envy your photography skills

Yep, slightly tilted.

I liked the cropped version of the picture. It made me want to click the photo to see the rest of it. Then I had to click the rest of the photos because I was curious/interested.

overall I liked the site. The one thing I didn't like was that photos were listed under more than one category, i.e. I think just because your brother is in a photo of the landscape it doesn't mean that the photo should be listed under people as well. Just pick one category and stick to it

Thanks for the suggestion Dustin. Most pictures blatantly fit more than one category though, like the Celica at sunset shot...I'd have to pick between automotive or sunset for that picture if I were going to limit myself to one category. And then say I filed it in automotive...when someone went to the sunset category, that photo would be missing, but it's clearly a photo taken at sunset. That's my reasoning for the multiple categories.

Slightly hard to navigate. Top banner kinda annoying how its crooked.

Suggestion: present all the categories on the front page. I noticed there were more categories as I went through the photos, but I was more stumbling upon photos instead of actually going to the ones I wanted to see.

Other than thats its good, simple is always best.

BTW: Using firefox & stumbleupon extension I found this great photographers website and if I can find it I'll send it to you so you can check it out, its one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

On the main page, I didn't want to add too much information, and that's why I left the whole listing of categories off of it. At one point I actually had them all on the same page, but I thought it was too cluttered, so I moved them to their own page.

Coomer im so lucky to live near u

Heres a NW photographer that has an online site. I like his set up

http://www.mackeydesigns.com/photography.html

Yeah, I've seen a lot of Josh's work on forums and his site...it's a nice site and awesome photos. His is more a portfolio though, while mine is a photoblog.

really nice i can make a link on my site to your site if you want that

Sure...that would be appreciated.

heres my critique from a graphic designer:
+ nice pics (use more black and color combo pics as title pics)
good colors (good black to color combo)
simple layout (i like simplicity)
- navigation (way to complicated, jumps around too much)
not enough pics! (need more variety)
top banner doesnt fit right and crooked (if meant to be than okay)
extra: since i noticed you like close up shots, use the fade effect as a background for the rest of the site and the main website is the focus....jus an idea.

Thanks for your critique. I may work on simplifying the navigation. Maybe remove the categories that a photo is listed under, and move the "browse all categories" link to the bottom, and then also put a "previous" link on the page for the current photo.

Also, there aren't many pics because it's a photoblog and I put it online just the other day. Pretty soon there will be more photos. And the top banner is made to look cut off and crooked. That's what I was going for.

Can you elaborate on your fade effect as a background part? I'm not quite understanding that.

This post has been edited by Coomer: Aug 17, 2006 - 2:58 PM