Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

I’m working on a redesign of my current website. Below is a link to a sample of what would be the gallery “engine” of the website. Currently I use Livebooks to power my website and while it has worked well, I’m getting a little tired of the format (that and it seems like every other photographer’s website I go to lately is a Livebooks page with the same basic layout).

So far, I like the new gallery (although I don’t know what I’d do with the overall site design just yet). However, I often like things because they are new and different rather than better… I tend to get sick of things and I’ve had the same web design for a while.

We all know that most photo buyers prefer a simple “show me the damn images” website without being fancy. It’s usually the photographers who get off on the elaborate, intricately designed and oh so clever websites that take forever to load and are impossible to navigate but are supposedly “worth the hassle.”

Some things I like about the new gallery:
- I like being able to see all the images at once in the thumbnail view
- I like that the images are a lot larger when viewing full size
- I like the interface and prefer its navigation (when using the arrow keys its quicker to go from image to image).

Some things I don’t like about the new gallery
- It seems to load slower
- The images are displayed in random order. This means I can’t put the images in the order I want.
- The image order changes every time you load the page so if a buyer wants to show another buyer a particular image and say’s “I like the 3rd picture on the 2nd row” it means nothing because that image changes location every time the page is loaded.

So, if you’d like, check out the new gallery and let me know what you think or if you have any problems with the page:
http://www.jeffsingerphotography.com/testnew/test/

And of course you can see the current design here.

Liz Hatch – Bicycling Magazine

I recently did a shoot with cyclist Liz Hatch for Bicycling Magazine. Liz was gracious enough to come to San Francisco’s Chinatown for the shoot even though she was in a pretty bad crash about a week before the shoot. She could barely lift her hand to shake mine when we met. And yet despite knowing she was in agony, I asked her to heave her bike onto her shoulder (yeah, the bad one). Without complaint she obliged, although I did feel bad as I watched her struggle to find a comfortable position for the bike…. hey, you’re supposed to suffer for your art, right? Oh wait, it’s me that’s supposed to suffer… right?

Needless to say Liz is a lot tougher than I am and could probably kick my ass even with her injuries.

Exactly how boring am I to work for?

Internship Pay: $0
Educational Value: $0
Working with Jeff Singer Photography: Worthless

My intern Jill standing in before a shoot.

A.P.E. Likes Me

Seems that I made the cut over at Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor slideshow of photographers he likes. You can head over to the Fickr page or the slideshow website and check out a lot of great work.

Just remember to come back here and hire me.

I’d Like To Thank The Academy

The wonderful and brilliant “A Photo Editor” (you’ll see why I’m kissing up below) decided to team up with photo consultant Leslie Burns-Dell’Acqua and do a “live” consultation with a photographer for purpose of posting the results on his blog. Much to my surprise, out of hundreds (thousands, millions maybe?) of photographers I was among the few he selected to get the consultation. However, there is one last step… the “winning” photographer is being selected by the public on his blog.Now, I’m not posting this to get you to go over there and vote for me. I just wanted to let people know that I was chosen to be considered for the consultation. Check out the other great photographers and vote for the one you like best. Of course, how many of them were in a life threatening car accident recently?Whether I win or not isn’t important, I am just happy to be nominated. Did that sound sincere?