It's not just my own new site that I've been busy with over the past few months. I've also shot the images for three other websites.
Pedal Progression is a new mountain bike skills company based in Bristol, offering tuition and guided riding for riders of all abilities:
Gary Lake, the man behind my new-look, soon-to-be-launched portfolio site, is also busy training to ride the Wales Coast to Coast in the summer. I know. He's clearly mad, but what can you do?
Finally, Gary also put together the site for endurance racing team NinerStansErgon:
It's been the norm for my pictures to end up on the web at some point, but it's more often than not a site that accompanies some kind of print product, whether that's a magazine or a catalogue. These shoots were different, because the web was always going to be the delivery medium of choice. It's a new way of working for me, and one that throws up its own challenges and opportunities.
It's quite liberating being freed from the design constraints of an A4-ish paper product. Looser crops are useful, so that web designers can run banner-style images where appropriate or crop into a tighter area of an image. I'm used to doing my own cropping in-camera and don't generally like seeing my images cropped in print, but with the web you can't always use standard 2:3 aspect ratios... and anyway, resolution isn't an issue. Provided you're working with a good designer, freedom to crop is generally a Good Thing.
All the links are broken! Just add http:// before the www. :)
Looking forward to the new site!
Posted by: Jim | April 18, 2012 at 03:08 PM
Oops! Should've spotted that. Thanks Jim. Fixed now...
Posted by: Seb Rogers | April 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Woohoo, that's what I called awesome pics, Seb! Those action shots will surely make its website livelier. What's more, they deserve to be in the main page of several bike sites to promote active biking lifestyle.
Posted by: Staci Burruel | April 27, 2012 at 12:16 AM