Comments on: Phil Jern Photos

Phil Jern Photos

pjern — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:53:38 -0800

I've created a website to display and, potentially down the road, sell my photography. I'd welcome constructive feedback from any and all of you!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:55:10 -0800

Gorgeous shots!

How much work is it to add new photos with that wordpress setup? Do you just upload a jpg, then describe it as a new post, or is there some other way to get the site updated?

By: pjern

pjern — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:12:23 -0800

I used a plugin called YAPB (Yet Another Photo Blog) that adds an uploader to the Wordpress "New Post" page, and links and automagically creates thumbnails and indexes. It's pretty schweet! The theme I chose is designed to work with that plugin. I did the whole thing from scratch in a bout a day, then spent a couple more tweaking things and learning how it all fit together.

By: pjern

pjern — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:21:03 -0800

Oh, and I have to give props to terrapin for his valuable advice and design counsel.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:07:38 -0800

Go, Phil! As a fan of your photos on flickr, I'm delighted to see you're putting together a site like this (I might do the same at some point myself). Good luck with it!

By: Stewriffic

Stewriffic — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:24:23 -0800

I'd love to vote but i'm getting some bizarre javascript error. Love the site, pjern.

By: goshling

goshling — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:21:51 -0800

I love this. Fabulous work on both the photography & the presentation.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:22:44 -0800

It's lovely, sir.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:41:46 -0800

When I visit Indiana and drive out to the middle of nowhere to visit my father, I always damn near drive off the road imagining the photos I could be taking if the light was better or if I wasn't already running late. Some day. These are beautiful!

By: terrapin

terrapin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:42:50 -0800

Glad to help, pjern! I really did nothing more than offer unsolicited advise :)

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:01:13 -0800

Good on you for including your EXIF data. That really helps us fledgling photographers learn our craft. Beautiful pictures.

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:57:16 -0800

I've followed pjern's Flickr stream for some time now, and it's good to see a unique website just for his photos.

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:09:08 -0800

Thanks everyone for all your kind words- I'm humbled and a little awed. I'm moving in the direction of providing a little how-to advice or background for each photo as a sweetener, along the lines of this post.

@terrapin: Yes, but it was good advice :)

@ColdChef: I always hate it when I have no idea how an effect was obtained. I'm more about sharing, I hope.

It's turning out to be a lot more work than I thought, but I'm still loving it.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:43:49 -0800

I love it.

- On the about page, I'd move the "die evil spammers" text to the bottom and talk about yourself first.
- The diagonal lines on the background make the white text a hair tough to read on my giant screen, might want to take the contrast on it down a teeny big or bold the text.
- Your tags seem to be all lumping in as one, you may need to separate them by commas when you enter them in wordpress to get them all to be different [I'm looking at "meditation man waterfall" which is showing up as one tag] you may have to go back and fix that
- I left a comment on a photo and it just went away, did you find it?

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:57:16 -0800

@jessamyn

Your comment (about gullywashers, right?) went to my moderation queue. I have to approve comments right now until I get some kind of spam control in place.

I'll look at that contrast issue; I wasn't aware of it.

Yes, I've figured out that tags don't work the same way as they do on Flickr- my bad for not reading the instructions on how to work the tag system better. I'm fixing them as I revisit pages for various reasons.

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:01:29 -0800

And actually, I think the comment moderation is a first-time-only thing. See if you can comment again somewhere.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:26:12 -0800

Yep, my second comment on this photo went through okay. Now it looks like the tag display is a little off. That same photo has dfferentiated tags [i.e. they all link to different tag pages which work, woo hoo!] but they appear as one big word blob at the bottom of the page. Should be simple to fix, let me know if you'd like help with it.

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:36:38 -0800

I've never turned down help in my life :) I'm trying to get everything set up at once, so this is way down on my list (tagging minutiae) but thank you, if you can figure how to insert spaces in that list, go for it :)

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:38:26 -0800

Oh, and I toned down the contrast on the diagonal lines thing by about 50%. (Actually, I faded them with an overlay in Photoshop, but whatever). Let me know if that's easier on the eyes.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:43:22 -0800

Hmmm, I thought I had messed with my tags on my site but I just have the standard <?php the_tags(); ?> thing there pulling them in so I may not know the way to do that. And yeah I think the diagonals work much better now.

By: pjern

pjern — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:08:25 -0800

Well, if I haven't figured the tags out by next week I'll burn another Ask question :)

By: pjern

pjern — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:43:54 -0800

Tags are fixed. Whew!