Website
What is a website?
'a location connected to the Internet that
maintains one or more web pages.' - Google definition
When first putting together a website you need
to understand exactly what you want it to say and show but mainly where exactly
are you going to build it. I decided to use the website 'Wix.com'.
So what exactly is Wix. Wix was
founded in 2006 and is now an online global user base with users all over the
world. Wix provides technology that is easy to manage in which will allow you
too produce beautiful, professional and functional webs. Wix offers the ability
to design and manage and promote your own business.
I decided to produce my website using Wix due to it being
recommended to me and easy to use, but there are also lots of others websites
available to use.
To begin with you need to include some informative and useful
information regarding you as a photographer.
- Photographs
- A statement regarding you
- Contact information
- Your name
- Some information on up and coming
exhibition or previous exhibition
Not only are you focusing on all the information about but you
also need to concentrate on the fonts, how easy is it to use, does the website
flow into each other.
Above is the first screen
that you come to when entering my website, the pictures are rotational offering
a view on different images and different genres that i have covered within my
photography career. Creating the screen this way allowed the viewer to have an
easy way off access the site and also it gives a little tester of what actually
is on my website, each photograph open out when clicked on it and also there is
a link to the folder that contains the rest of the series.
About
(This photograph of me is produced by photographer Oneka Dollard
and i asked permission to use the photograph on my website.)
What to consider when writing about yourself
- remember who the audience is (they
don't know you)
- tell them a bit about you
- interests
- about your work as a photographer
(or other profession)
I found this section to be one of the trickiest that i have done,
its hard to write about yourself but i have learnt that if you make bullet
points of what you would like to discuss then that should make it easier for
you to process and out into sentences.
I decided to write the artist statement as though someone else was
writing it about me, it just made it more easier and gives the impression that
you and getting to know this photographer/person.
Photographic Portfolio
The screen shot from my website above is no quite finished yet so
if you would like to see the finished website pop along to my website by
clicking on the link
This page will have a section on me as a photographer and my work,
focusing on the different aspects that i bring to my photography and what my
style is. Also on this page are links to each of my individual projects that i
have focused on and produced work for example studio portrait, Vanitas, Still
Life and so on.
Clicking on the photography genres.
Vanitas
This genre is based on a project that i did known as Still life,
we had the brief to create a Vanitas photograph and after that i decided to
base a section of my work photographing flowers in an old bowl filled with
water.
The meaning of Vanitas is 'a still-life
painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as
a reminder of their inevitability.'
I wanted to produce something that reminded you of a painting but
also represented the symbols of death. I produced these by collecting old bowls
from charity shops and them collecting flowers and water and placing them all
together, producing the shots in a studio.
Still Life
This genre is known as Still Life. This is where i got my
inspiration for my Vanitas photographs. Originally the brief consisted of
different types of still life, either food, documentary, digital montage and so
on. This allowed me to learn and practice new skills as well as my old ones.
The meaning of Still Life is 'A painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects,
typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in
texture, such as bowls and glassware.
'The genre of still life painting or drawing'.
Each of the portfolios that i have displayed on my website is
something that expresses who i am as an individual as well as a photographer.
Producing work that i have interest or respect for will push me even harder to
make sure I have the perfect photographs.
Exhibitions
This section is to keep your clients up to date with your previous
and up and coming photography events.
I don't really have that many events that i have done in the past
but i am apart of an exhibition that is happening at the beginning of June
2016.
Contact
This is the most accurate and important bit of information that should be displayed on your website, it is everything that the client needs to contact you. In the screen shot below of my contact page which is not finished yet but you can see when opening my website by clicking on the link http://jessicampwalker.wix.com/jessicampwalker
I have included details such as my name, phone number and email.
This is essential so that your business is successful.
Apart form all of the above you need to make it feel like you and
present it how you would present yourself to a client. First impressions are
everything.
Again you can visit my website by clicking on this link http://jessicampwalker.wix.com/jessicampwalker
The reasoning behind having
a website is to advertise my work, each and me as a photographer an every
single bit of this website has been designed by me using the company WIX. I
have specifically designed my website this way because I just feel that it
works with my photography.
I would class myself to be a
laid back person who is interested in many things, shapes, contrast, colours,
repetition, and I wanted to make sure my website had a flow that resembles me
as an individual and I am please with the way my website has turned out.
Each photograph that has
been used is put on this website for a reason whether it being in a series, or
because I am proud to show it off. You could say that my photographs are
different but I just say that they are versatile and this shows that I am
versatile in what I do.
One main aspects of having a
website is a domain name.
A domain name is the part of a network address that identifies it as belonging
to a particular domain.
You can buy domain names off
line for reasonable price.
You can buy them off website
such as
-
123.reg
-
GoDaddy
-
Names.co.uk
-
1&1 domains
Buying a domain name is essential
as mot website once you make them will give you a domain name, for example I do
not have a domain name and I still have a website due to wix.com giving me a
domain name. So technically in a way I do have a domain name.
I would take time and
research into it before you go and buy a domain name
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