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Don't forget the salt.

July 9, 2012 Guest User
salt

Going though some old photos, i realized... I barely remember this day. I remember being on the flats, but have no clue what we talked about, or how she was feeling. Why? I was too busy with exposure times, F-stops, and filters. Documenting the experience got in the way of the experience itself.

Capture vs. experience. As a photographer, it's your job to capture. You're supposed to step back, raise a camera to your face, look through a lens and tell a compelling story. Get the photo, get the photo, and above all else, get the photo. Hell, it's more than a job. It's a religion. It's just... what you do.

As a partner, parent, or friend, however, it's important to turn this mentality off - to take part in and help create the experience. I have a hard time doing this, apparently, considering my inability to recollect an entire day in an amazing place. Yeah, it absolutely sucks seeing a potential photo pass you by, quietly taunting you as you stand there without your camera, your phone tucked deep in your pocket. But it's more than made up for when you're out there, actually living the experience, avoiding the confused regret i feel now.

So, as a reminder to myself and all other camera addicts, don't forget the salt.

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Isogrid: Minimalist wallpaper pack for mobile + desktop.

July 5, 2012 Guest User

If you're one of those people that like to keep a clean & minimal workspace, this one's just for you. I combined a few of my favorite home brew textures with an isometric grid sourced from the ever bountiful Google Image search. Plus, they're Retina friendly!

Download for Desktop, Tablets, or Mobile.

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How to make a mobile-friendly portfolio site

July 5, 2012 Guest User
mobile

Holy smokes, it's 2012. Step onto any train or bus and you'll find yourself surrounded by a crowd of people, quietly fixated on little, glowing screens. In the last year alone, mobile web traffic has gone up 35% globally - and you don't have to look far to see it. A quick check of Google Analytics a few months ago made that point ever-so-clear: a whopping 25% of my total web traffic is mobile. That's 1 in 4 people! And my site looks like crap on the phone. Well, that is, until now. Go ahead, resize your browser. I re-did the entire thing so it looks nice at any scale. How? Well, honestly, I sorta cheated. I'm secretly a web nerd who used an amazing responsive-layout CSS boilerplate called Skeleton, a side project of my friend Dave Gamache, which made it easy for me to design & code for every screen size. Now, if you're not a web nerd, and find yourself thinking "responsive B-S-wha?", you're in luck - there are a few of options out there that make it easy to build your own mobile-friendly portfolio without knowing a lick of code.

Here's a few general rules to follow when choosing a portfolio site.

  • Avoid Flash portfolios! They require a plug-in that most mobile phones don't have. Plus, they're sooo last decade.
  • Keep the design simple.  The site should take a back seat to your content, and should easily scale down to fit within a tiny screen.
  • Quality, not quantity.  Fewer & big is better than many & small.
  • Ask yourself "Is it easy to get from one image to another?" If you find yourself clicking or tapping too much, the answer is probably no.
  • Vertical scrolling is faster than horizontal scrolling. Unless the mobile version of the site supports a gallery mode that lets you swipe left & right, stick with what the browser knows how to do best - up & down.

I found 5 mobile-friendly portfolio options that fit this criteria fairly well:

Super Skeleton Theme
Hatch Wordpress Theme
22slides
4ormat
FolioHD

1. Super Skeleton Wordpress Theme2. Hatch Wordpress Theme3. 22Slides4. 4ormat5. FolioHD

Hopefully, the next time you're casually chatting about your work, you'll have something to show at the dinner table. These five are the best i've found so far. If you know of any others, let me know in the comments.

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