as many of you should know, Boudoir Photography is part of National Photographer hence why it has the website address it does, and when you were searching for us, you came across the grafixphoto.nationalphotographer…. website address. Grafixphoto held the first National Photographer Boudoir and glamour photography website and was mixed with commercial photographer, and yes as you may guess, the two dont go together… so what we did was remake grafixphoto.. (grafixphoto.co.uk) which is kinda almost finished.. and its seperate, but the grafixphoto.national.. get a large amount of hits per week with ladies looking for boudoir photo shoots or glamour, so it just tells every one to go to the correct sites.
You may have noticed that Grafixphoto does all the design work with the albums for the photography as you may have see it tagged on our videos, along with City photography
City Photography is also part of National Photographer but is more a local level website for photo shoot in the local areas which the sites are deadicated to cities and town and priced according to the rates in those areas.
Local Photographer are vetted by us, which is a look t their work, and thena quick spy on them (usual to see the hidden photos they dont want people seeing) and then have a chat with them, check their goals and then they are allowed to join. Photographer have to make an application to join city photography. this way we can get rid of the riff raff photographers, and we get paid for the work we have to do with running the websits and photographers.
City photography has a few websites which will total up to 78 in total as we find photographers to cover those areas, we did use one website design (which wasnt that good) when we launched the sites in around March-July 2009.
Since then, City Photography sites have started to have a make over, you can find this in the NEWS section of the cty photography main site. The problem being is that the main site doesnt have any services on them, such as portrait shoots etc.. thats all down to the local sites which have all the services.
Sites like Reading City Photography has a full range of services and is one of the more fuller websites with Lots of information, take for example reading’s Boudoir Photography page, there is a run down on the photography without lots of buy buy sell sell..
The Swindon City Photography website is a nice a simple website, very low text content and low in the image content, in fact the gallery is only the side show across the index page of the website, and there are a few right side images on the sites in some areas like the Swindon Boudoir Photography page which only has 3 paragraphs. The boudoir Photo shoot packages are pretty simple as well, there is none of that multi selection details stuff like on the National Photographer Boudoir packages page.
Oxford City Photography has one of the new websites that took me a few days to design and sort out. The big Issue was Size, the actual background of the website is scrolled with a slide show of images which is full screen and the content is layered over the site, I had the idea when I was designing my personal wedding photography website, but I just wanted a little bit more the the wedding site had.
Of course the big issue with designing the site was that a lot of people have different computer and different screen sizes, A common screen size is 1024 x764, this is normal of a square screen, 1154 x720 is the low end HD wide screen monitors and of course we use 1680 x1050 wide screen HD monitors, So squares cut off about 40% off the side of the images, the low end screen should just fit but may run off the bottom a little but I didnt put much informaion down there.
Then there was the other problem! broad band!! yes the National Photographer boudoir website is hungery! The sites pages fully load out at around 9 meg, most of this is down to the music we put on the sites, but with out that I think they would be a little boring..
The Oxford Boudoir Photography page has some of the recent photo shoots on there, We managed to keep the file sizes down to about 190kb without loseing to much of the image quality but really the website needs some music, but I will try to find something smaller to go on the sites as I know that a lot of people will not have broadband and so it will take time to load the websites up… we get this problem with the national photographer boudoir websites as I was on a phone call guiding a client though the site.. ( long call)
Anyhow, if you are looking for boudoir Photographers that are local to you, check out http://www.city-photography.co.uk/ and click the LINKS menu and find boudoir photographers local to you. You should find the sites load quicker than the national photographer boudoir website.
