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I was the last to post before the server crashed like a wave on a beach. Life's a beach. In the interim we finished (for the most part) the debuggin or my new flash website. Dave Casman sent me some interesting feedback, as did George L. I would appreciate comments from forum members who are on high speed connections. All of the non-square photos are Leica.

Kirk

-- kirk tuck (kirktuck@kirktuck.com), May 01, 2002

Answers

Did not get any flash movie (?) and some links seem to be broken. Am I going to the right site? (http://www.kirktuck.com/new takes me to a weird page that says parent directory and which links back to the old site). Apart from that, some really good pictures !

-- Marc A. Pilgrem (mpilgrem@hotmail.com), May 01, 2002.

We've taken down the original beta site and now we're just doing http://www.kirktuck.com Try again and let me know.

Best, Kirk

-- kirk tuck (kirktuck@kirktuck.com), May 01, 2002.


Well, Kirk, the site is "way cool" as my kids would say. On my wireless card-cable modem set up it loaded quickly. I love the way the photos appear instantly when you roll the mouse pointer over them. Since I have all high rez screens I wish the display box and photos were bigger, but I would guess that you have to size them to the lowest common denominator of screen size and resolution.

-- Steve Rosenblum (stevierose@yahoo.com), May 01, 2002.

Nice photography. But it's a pretty small on my monitor (which is nothing special, just 1024x768) as well.

-- Mark Ciccarello (mark@ciccarello.com), May 01, 2002.

i agree, the frame is too small. also, i'm against using flash and feel it dectracts from the power of the images. you want to showcase your images, not your fancy design skills right? i believe that a photographer's website should implement design elements that are as simple and to the point as possible, allowing the photos to shine through and speak for themselves. that's just my 2 cents....

-- Tristan Tom (tristan@tristantom.com), May 01, 2002.


Kirk, I found it very fast to load on dsl. Nice presentation, just enough flash to impress. I especially like "Flowers on white", it reminds me of some of my wife's food photography.

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), May 02, 2002.

Personally, I like the use of Flash on your site, Kirk. I always hear people rail against the use of Flash -- probably because most of time when it's used, it's poorly designed and executed. Not the case here. The download is fast and (most importantly) the navigation is clean and easy to understand. Don't dismiss Flash just to dismiss Flash.

Great photos, Kirk. I especially liked the street scenes from Rome.

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), May 02, 2002.


It's tiny on my 1280x1024 monitor.

-- Kent Phelan (kent@phelan.org), May 02, 2002.

Kirk, I would agree with the previous observations that the window is too small, considering your target market. For this style of work, I think it is reasonable to design for a screen size of 1024x768 - that is generally the minimum screen size among professionals, graphics people, and ADs. The smaller size would be appropriate only if you were targeting consumer markets, I think.

Although I usually don't like Flash-based sites, yours is well-designed and decidedly un-Flashy (in the good way). On a 384K DSL line, the portfolios loaded reasonably quickly, but that might change with larger images. I would have preferred to see more images of the cute Russian model from the Street section, however. (lol) Nice work, too, by the way.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), May 02, 2002.


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