Blogging about photography we come across tons of photographer portfolios every day. Even though most photographers prefer to show their skills in photos actually, leaving experiments with website layouts to web designers, photography portfolio design doesn’t stand still and we observe many interesting approaches appearing.
In this post we overview 8 trends in photography portfolio design we observed and identified while analyzing personal websites of well-known professional photographers. Hopefully, it will inspire you for your own creative projects. By the way, if you have any suggestions falling into categories listed below or we missed any recent photo portfolio design technique, let us know in comments!
Latest Trends in Photography Website Design
First of all we would like to remark that a considerable part of websites we’ve analyzed is based on Flash. Flash photo websites provide richer visual experience to the user. Besides, modern Flash photography galleries are more dial-up friendly, easy navigated and accessible which is surely a positive trend.
Now let’s look closer at the other significant photography web design tendencies.
1. Spicing classical slideshow patterns
Such navigation effects as carousel or grid are probably the most common patterns in photography portfolios. They enable users to quickly skim through all available photos without digging the whole website over. Although simple slideshows are the most common work showcasing techniques, many photographers make them look unique by mixing effects and adding some featured elements to them.
Grid Gallery
Here are some examples of how a simple grid gallery can look stylish and unique.
Carousel
Carousel is everything but innovative way to rotate photos, however some photographers give to their carousel photo galleries a remarkable look.
2. Huge photographs
Images are the main content on photography websites. More and more photographers prefer not to waste the space on featured background and big layout elements making the photos dominate on the screen, in some cases website is loaded full screen automatically.
3. Unusual effects and navigation
Non-typical alignment
This is not completely a trend as we found just a few galleries with right/left aligned photographs, but this is a quite interesting practice worth to be mentioned.
Extraordinary navigation
Besides featured common navigation patterns listed above, we noted many portfolios using totally unique and sometimes gimmicky navigation techniques. Here are some cool examples:
Accordion
Accordion is perfect for designing a minimalist content-oriented website (which photography portfolio certainly is), still only a handful of photographers use this technique for their personal galleries.
4. Photo motion
The effect of slight photo movement is among the recent trends. It is good for viewing large images and in many cases user can turn off the movement to see the static shot.
5. Big typography
Big type rocks modern web design. It is everywhere, and photography websites are not an exception.
6. Unusual thumbnail gallery
Our research shows that thumbnail gallery is one of the most popular site areas where designers implement their creative ideas. Adding some unique style to thumbs zone makes the website more attractive and interactive without accessibility sacrifice.
7. More text
Naturally, photos are the main content filling on photography websites, but we noticed that more photographers now use verbal form along with visual to communicate with the visitors. Blogs, tutorials, comprehensive descriptions of photo categories and single shots became quite popular in photo portfolio design. The more text on the website, the better it is for SEO and profile building, probably these are the main reasons for this trend.
8. Simplicity & Minimalism
This trend can be called eternal, as minimalist style has already become classical in photography website design. Clean layout, quick access to the content, easy navigation are crucial to this kind of personal portfolios and the lion’s share of photographers stay loyal to this style.
In conclusion we would like to admit that designing you personal photo portfolio you should be aware of the common techniques, latest trends and specific features of photography website design. Take advantage of your knowledge to make your website up to date and attractive. At the same time, try to keep the guidelines of easy navigation and accessibility as the website itself isn’t the main subject of interest when it comes to photography gallery - your work shouldn’t be cluttered, it should capture the visitor’s attention straight away and be easy to access. Treat your website as a setting- its beauty should highlight the work but not eclipse it.
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Hmmm… I feel almost neolithic in my web design approach.
I will have to think about the options and see if I am comfortable with an elaborate update of my site.
Wow, lots of great and inspiring photos and websites shown. Thanks for posting.
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Great sites but why are most of them are flash. Why? I’m a photo nut myself, but I never understood why every little photo needs to be loaded using flash. Flash does not improve your photograph.
Flash doesn’t improve your photograph but it ads the effects to the photo presentation. It’s like the great book in the stylish cover and the cooler the cover is, the more attention and thus sales it might get
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Flash is pretty but not needed. If your photos are good, then they’re good. I look at a lot of photographers web sites and all the flash gets really obnoxious. PLUS, in the age of mobile media, flash is useless.
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During the day, I browse on my iPhone, I find a lot of great links via Twitter, friendfeed, etc., if they are in flash - I just move on to the next. By the time I get home they are long burried in the stream and in the ever increasing deluge, I just forget about the ones that did not display earlier that day. I don’t necessarily spend much time on non-flash sites on my iPhone - but I do bookmark the ones that make a good first impression.
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Great Post! I thingmo web design is complete if it doesn’t have clear naviation, readability of text and forms to contact
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