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\f0\fs24 \cf0 Hello, and thank you for joining me. This is Mike Taylor at twoeyesopen.ca/wp,
and I'm doing a online web review of a photographer's \
website. Usually I do these in text on my blog, and that's where you can normally find
them. Twoeyesopen.ca/wp. But I'm going to give this a shot and see what people think.\
\ So let's get right into it. This is Michael
Penn. He is a Philadelphia based photographer, he shoots primarily in from what I can see
in black and white. And I'm going to assume he shoots in film. He does a lot of artistic
work, has exhibitions and takes on some commercial projects as well.\
\ We are now on the home page. Big beautiful
picture, easy to read text. Sadly, I don't see a phone number anywhere. Hopefully that's
not going to be the case as I get more into this website. \
Clicking on portfolio, and we have lots of options coming in here. And we have one there.
Beautiful pictures. Thumbnails down at the bottom. Lots of great interesting work. Pictures
do take a little bit of time to load, but that could be my internet connection. It is
the middle of the day here. Some very nice evening shots there. \
\ There is no music. Awesome. I don't having
like music playing. I'm sure a lot art directors don't have any patience for it . The only
downfall I see so far is, the pictures take a little bit of time to load. But again that
could be my internet connection.\ Lots of great black and white work. Nice contrast.
No fault there at all. Let's click on another picture here. \
\ I'm looking at this on a twenty-seven inch
Apple iMac. I'm assuming it's going to be just as good on a iPad or a netback or something
like that. The text is easy to read. Pictures are big and beautiful. Let's go back to home.
And let's go to exhibition and see what happens there. So we have a list come up with exhibitions
that he's been in. Sadly I can't click on these. They are not links. Ooh, there is a
link actually, and I can see some more information about that, that um museum in this case. Let's
get out of here, we don't need to see that. \
\ And we'll go back to \'85 articles and publications.
Another page comes up, easy to read. I like that black field with the white text. Very
nice. Here is an option to open information about that publication in PDF. I can download
that, which is great. I'm sure art directors enjoy that. They want to be able to take the
pictures and put it into a mock up. Which would be very good. \
\ You'll notice that, in his pictures he does
not have copyright information written across the picture, taking away from the quality
of the image. If I was an art director, maybe I want to be able to take that picture and
drop it into a mock up of a project I'm working on. \
And there definitely is that option.\ \
News. Another panel comes up. You see how these panels are consistent from section to
another? That's nice. I really like having the very simple, easy to read font. I'm not
sure I like the fact that it's in all caps. That might be another negative, negative in
my mind. Here's another PDF option right here. I can read more about him in that publication.
It loads very quickly, going forward and back. Works just fine. \
\ Links works fine. Lot's of options there.
Let's click on one here. Opens up another page completely. Okay, that works good. Let's
go to contact. That opens up my email. I can send him an email right away, but what if
I wanted to call the man? There is no phone number. There is no address. There is no postal
address. What if I actually want to send him a letter? Or a post\'85 um\'85 what do you
call those things again? I can't even think of the word (laughs). Nevermind. What if I
want to send that guy a letter? I can't do that cause there's no address here. And there's
no phone number, so I can't call him right away. Back to home. \
\ Same big picture comes up. I'm wondering if
this picture changes from day to day. There is the option to go to his Facebook page.
I'm not interested in doing that. Okay, as you can see his only copyright information
is down here on the left. That pretty well covers all the images. So don't go taking
his stuff because that would be copyright infringement. So, um\'85 very nice site. A
few negatives, but for the most part this site garners a 4.5 rating out of 5 on my fictitious
rating system. And I'm hoping that you will come and visit me at my blog. Where I will
do text reviews\ of websites by a variety of photographers,
worldwide not just American. And I usually do two a week, I try to do two a week. And
you will also find lots of tips on making your website much more attractive to search
engines such as, Google, Yahoo, etc., etc., etc. \
\ Please join me at twoeyesopen.ca/wp Thanks
again this Mike Taylor. See you again. Bye bye. }