Agent Provocateur video: Soirée Collection

I know, I have showed a similar video by Agent Provocateur before. And
this isn't new, also. But I'd say it's not a mistake to watch something
similar again when it's so lovely:

Marina Lombardo: A model's portfolio in the style of a blog

Bl

Usually I am not posting model portfolio's here. But I really liked that
Marina Lombardo is using a blog to showcase her works. Great idea and
nice to review. I really like to photos of David Bellemere and Etienne
Delorme. Hey, not fair: The works are all amazing!

Enjoy:
http://www.marina-lombardo.blogspot.com/

Amazing profile of Mike Dowson: Yet another nude photographer

Mike

Isn't it amazing how many nude photographers are out there? I am always
astonished what a large variety is in the profiles. Here is another
portfolio by Mike Dowson and it's full of great photographs:

http://www.mikedowson.com/

Bernd Bryant: A fresh lingerie portfolio

Bb

Bernd Bryant just shot a new lingerie series with former Germany's Next
Top Model Lena Gerke. I like that series and I like the red.

The portfolio is fresh, too. Interesting to see how different things
look when you need it to be commercial.

Good works.

Here's the portfolio:
http://www.bernd-bryant.de/

Short Preview Clip of Zoi in "Ground Control"

Tomorrow I will publish a new series on my website called "Ground
Control". Here is a preview clip with beautiful Zoi:

C-Heads Issue 23

Oh, I totally forgot to mention another great issue volume. It's #23 and
now almost 1 month old. Still very cool photography in it:

http://issuu.com/c-heads/docs/c-heads-issue-23

New Series up: Heavy Rain Tomorrow feat. Michaela

I am glad to announce my first series in 2011. It's Michaela in "Heavy
Rain Tomorrow". Only a short series, shot under very humid conditions.

http://www.simonbolz.com/series/heavy-rain-tomorrow/

My new website is here: simonbolz.com

Newwebsite

A few years ago photo websites needed to have a horizontal slideshow. It
was slick and cool. But after a while it's just getting boring. And it
interrupts the natural browsing behaviour which is from top to bottom.

So my old image slider had to go. That was for sure. What else could get
improved I thought when re-designing my own webpage?

1. Necessity of Flash
With all the jQuery scripting there is no advantage for flash slideshows
anymore. I wanted a quicker browsing experience on all devices, so Flash
had to go in my series pages and the interface is mostly HTML now, also.
I used Google webfonts (Droid Sans) throughout all my pages.

2. Larger images
I shoot with 21 or 40 megapixels always. So why showing only small
images? Bigger photos are much nicer to watch. A whole new experience.
In my new website all photos are respectively larger. I chose a balance
to fit on the screen of most users (79% according to 1 year of
statistics). By fitting on the screen I am speaking of the vertical
height. Horizontally I included scripting that scales down the image on
smaller screens without the nasty pixelation.

3. Video integration
As I produce small clips to my series, I thought of integrating them on
each page also. They are not that cool yet but at least there is room to
improve.

4. A new homepage
What's interesting about a homepage? Photographs! So I gave all space to
them. I reduced all other information to a minimum, so you'll have a
nicer browsing experience now.

Small screen resolutions automatically get a different layout (in modern
browsers which most of my visitors have).

By using the .f4v instead of the .flv video format and by downscaling
the preview video it can now be 30 seconds long with only 750 KB to load.

5. Logo? What for?
I decided to remove my "Simon Bolz Photography" logo. There is no need
for it. You know my name, I shoot the series. There is no big company
attached to it. I do everything on my own.

6. Besides some more stuff
New colour scheme with different grey tones and a blackberry highlight
colour (instead of my old pink). Balance of vertical and horizontal
lines in the whole layout. High contrast in font sizes. A more subtle
simonbolz.com stamp on the photographs. A new directory structure. More
modern code and scripting. No more unused (and unuseful) buttons like
"share this" or "tweet this". And for the statistics: 732 large scale
photographs with a total of 146 MB as of January, 2011.

So here is my new website. Nothing but the naked truth ;-)

http://www.simonbolz.com

Any remarks, questions and feedback? Please, let me know!

It's art: Fashion photography by Hugh Lippe

Hugh

Fashion photographer Hugh Lippe is a genious. His images are so
strikingly sexy even if his models are fully dressed. This is art.
Wonderful:

http://hughlippe.com/