Website Portfolio Feedback + Do I need peoples permission to use photos on my site?

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Hey everyone,

I would like to know what permissions issue I have.

All the images on my site have been taken by myself, or my girlfriend. Most photo's are of people are know, the question I would like to know is:

Do I need to ask there permission before putting the photo online?

Let me know what you think to my site?

www.kanemitchell.co.uk

Still working through some bits at moment.

Kane

Sorry if this has been asked before
 
Hello

I think the layout is clear and user friendly and I like the colouring of the site. I think the one aspect that bothered me was the gallery menu appearing, almost like a watermark, over the images. It was fine when the text contrasts with the image but there are times when it gets lost, this is prevalent in your landscape section.

As far as permissions are concerned, if most subjects are friends and are over 18 you should be ok but a courtesy ask would not go amiss. The area you must be careful with is photographing the under 18s - ideally you should have written permission from parents/guardians to use these.

Cheers

Spooks
 
I haven't had time to go through it but why am I required to login to see your portfolio?

Surely this will put prospective clients off?

And the Facebook and Twitter logos should be removed - they do nothing at all to project a professional image.

Once I've gone to the portfolio and other pages there is no obvious way to get back to the Home page - it took me a few seconds to find out that clicking on the logo did that - you need a "Home" sign on all pages - that is the convention on most websites.

There is nothing at all on the "About" page apart from the Facebook and Twitter logo.

There is very little or no text on any page and the same Title on every page - this will make it very difficult to get any kind of rating on Google.

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something on your site isn't liked by the 'websense' internet filter my company employ.

Your site automatically gets blocked with the nice friendly warning:
"Website filter category: Potentially Damaging Content has been blocked"
 
Very nice site, exactly the sort of thing I'd like to put together one day!

One very very minor niggle - as you move between pages for home, about, portfolio etc the pages seem to shift to the left and right a bit. (So the menu and logo at the top don't stay in the same place). As I say, only a minor thing.

If you're using the site to get business then I'd add a name, email address and phone number to the Contact page.
 
kano88 said:
My site is finally live.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Very standard portfolio showing off my photos, still need more wedding ones adding. But it also a full client side as well.

Kano

http://www.kanemitchell.co.uk
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People seems to be the same small group of people from the same shoot in a lot of the pictures

Children seems to be the same faces repeated. Family? Some look quite noisy too.

Wedding's looks like 2 weddings, and not a lot of shot variety.

didn't look at the rest, but I'd suggest choosing a couple of areas to work on instead of trying to photograph everything. Portraits and Weddings go well together, but Landscapes and Misc starts to dilute what you're promoting. Choose a niche and stick with it.

If you're using shots of the same people, at least have them in different shoots / styles / locations / clothes.

Try to diversify the images, better to have 10 really good different shots than 20 that are all very similar. Be consistent with processing too.

Contact forms put people off quite often, just set up a mailbox and a phone number (Skype in gives you a landline number and you can put voicemail on it too) and use that instead.

About page, nobody cares about why you live in Nottingham, they care about what you can offer them as a service. If I hire a builder I want to know what sort of building they have experience in, what they can offer and I want to see examples of their work, I don't care why they're in my area as long as they're good.

Facebook and Twitter.....If, and it's a big IF, these are specifically about your photography work and nothing else, then they're fine. If they're personal accounts used for everything then I'd ditch them. Keep it simple as well by having a twitter "Follow Me" button or a Facebook "Like" button, don't embed twitter and facebook content into the pages themselves.
 
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