zoltan_fogarasi1 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I have a web page. On the main page there is a flash based slide show. Today I changed it, I wanted to have some black and white and sepia pictures with more emotions. But I am not sure if it's better then the old one. I would appreciate your opinion a lot. The text is in Hungarian, wait for flash to download and look at the pictures: The old one:http://www.eskuvofotozas.hu/index2.php The new one:http://www.eskuvofotozas.hu Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno_amado Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Zoltan,I am not a wedding photographer (Works of art/architecture) but in my opinion, the old one is a lot better - great exposures and compositions!Cheers,Nuno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conraderb Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 VERY SLOW TO LOAD. you will be losing customers just b/c of the slow load times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conraderb Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 the second one is better - but the first few frames are so similar that to the average viewer, it just looks like you machine gunned your camera. pick two from the series and then show something completely different. I suggest showing at two weddings in the first four images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacy Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Zoltan- I like them both, but I don't really like how the new one fades from color to B&W. Maybe you could just add some of the photos from the new one into the old one and keep some of each? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Yeah man, that is way too slow. What size is the swf file? The size of those jpgs should be around 15-20k. Here's perhaps the best $20 you can spend. Flash designers are raving on how versatile this is and the swf file is only 29k! http://www.slideshowpro.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
er1 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 As both show merrit, I would combine them however you may loose potential customers due to length of loading time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daydreamsart Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Hi Zoltan, I like the first one better. The second one has some beautiful and emotional pictures, but the fading from color to B&W to sepia takes the attention away from the emotion of the image. Choose your favorite version and use that. I think B&W focuses a lot more attention on the emotion. Maybe replace some of those on your old site with your favorites from the new one. You will not lose the viewable image quality by compressing them more so they load faster, either. Use the "save for web" feature in PS and you can see how much the compression effects the image so you don't go too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewkane Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I like the second one better... and it loaded much faster to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaisy Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Too slow to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Too slow to load, customer lost, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Sloooooow load. Didn't even wait for the first one. Second one loaded a bit faster. Wouldn't have waited for either if I was shopping for a wedding shooter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltan_fogarasi1 Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 Thank you for all of you. The old one was 4 times slower and noone complained. Most of my customers have fast connection and the show loads before they have time to read the text. At the second visit they are getting the presentation from browser cache. This is the price to have a presentation without having to click anywhere. By the way, I can not handle more customers than I have. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I'm sorry man, but your "valogatas.swf" file is 1137KB! This is huge and wrong and gives flash sites a bad name. The most heavy flash sites with all the bells and whistles and music are under 200K. Get your builder to use xml and point to a seperate folder of jpgs as they are obviously contained in your swf file. It's not fair to inflict this on the unsespecting in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan_su Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 What you should realized is that fact that most people won't bother if it takes "too long" to load. Now this is subjective to a point. Your flash is REALLY TOO LONG........ aside from that, your site looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltan_fogarasi1 Posted February 5, 2006 Author Share Posted February 5, 2006 I bought "showitfast", is it better/faster now? http://www.eskuvofotozas.hu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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