Finally.......website customized

This week there will be an overwhelming amount of things to shoot here in NOLA. Working with a friday deadline to an editor Im going to be shooting / drinking / editing / shooting / drinking /editing / etc..... With this in mind I really wanted my website to be in order, so when and if any of my pics are picked up, people visiting my site for the first time will get a good idea of the kind of stuff I shoot.

I still think I need to re-envision some of my galleries so that they work better as groups of images, but for now Im happy that I even got to this point. I was finally able to figure out how to customize my home page so that it was well integrated with my Photoshelter site. Now, I have three main categories highlighted on my homepage and have the rest of the galleries hidden in the archive section.

I used Dreamweaver to create my new homepage, essentially copying the design of my PS site, then created three galleries and embedded them in the dreamweaver site.

Take a peak, let me know what you think.

Happy for now! Heading to Saints Parade!!! More on that later

Pictures of People Doing Things = Lifestyle Photography

It seems as though the commercial category for "photos of people doing things that they would normally do" is called lifestyle photography. For a long time i've been struggling with categorizing my photos and figuring out the best way to display them as sets. Using PhotoShelter is a blessing and a curse because of the flexibility I have with creating new galleries, or 'sets' of images. Sometimes I look at images and think......should this be in the people set, the entertainment set, the portrait set, or all of them? For instance, an image that has a particular commercial appeal might not have that same appeal in a gallery labeled "Travel: Italy" like this image. Knowing that most people don't last beyond the first few images of a gallery, especially ones that house hundreds of photos. Ive recently created a new gallery titled Lifestyle Gallery, which showcases some of the works that might not get as much credit because they're lumped in travel or event galleries with tons of other images. I guess at this point, I want to make my website as visitor friendly as possible and keep switching up the images on my homepage to make people view more and more of my photos. Is it better to show tons of photos from a variety of categories on my site or limit the scope so it seems as though i specialize in one area? Any insight from my followers?