Really Good Flash Sites

[Aaron van de Sande]

"good flash"? Oxymoron...

[Brian K]

Often times I see Flash sites that seem to use Flash purely as a gimmick and do not serve the function of directing viewers around the photographs. The first sample that Frank gave, while interesting, is an extremely ineeficient way for people to view that photographers work. As new images pop up all over the place, and very slowly at that, it becomes very hard to tell which images you have already seen. This is a very time consuming way to show work.

My own site is Flash, and it's pretty minimal while at the same time I tried to make navigation fairly easy.

www.kosoff.com

Craig I really enjoyed your site, it's good to see another photographer who sometimes uses all the tones between zone 7 & 8.

[adrian tyler]

frank, heres a fun one:

http://www.mackaoui.com/

[Marko]

Did you know that Adobe CS2 suite application icons were created as X-Ray photos? This guy did the photos and then MetaDesign did the graphic design part - compositing and coloring.

http://www.nickveasey.com/nickveasey.html

I don't quite care for the way the site takes control of the browser, but I still find his content interesting enough to visit.

[Frank Petronio]

All you have to do is look at my websites to see I'm a big proponent of web standards, lean code, fast loading and simple accessibility. But some of the Flash sites are fun to look at as recreation -- it's like porn -- you know it's wrong but you still peak at it once in awhile (well, of course you don't...)

I certainly don't advocate building the typical big commercial photographer stupid Flash website (most ad agencies also have really stupid Flash websites). But inside and beyond all the stupid Flash crap they put is through are some pretty good photos and in the case of the first site I mentioned, some funny commentaries and behind the scenes stuff.

Not that I advocate doing it the way the guy did it. I think it is lousy marketing really. But I still enjoy the good parts.

[robc]

I tell you what. Go have at look at this web site and pay special attention to the clients in their portfolio. Madonna and the Beatles just to metion a couple of minor ones. Then go tell tell them that their sites don't conform to web standards and Flash is not a good thing for marketing and see what they think of your opinion.

http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/

[Frank Petronio]

Oh I know. Every major fashion photographer has the same sort of site, as do ad agencies with billions and billions of billings.

I'm full of shit

[Marko]

I tell you what. Go have at look at this web site and pay special attention to the clients in their portfolio. Madonna and the Beatles just to metion a couple of minor ones. Then go tell tell them that their sites don't conform to web standards and Flash is not a good thing for marketing and see what they think of your opinion.

http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/

Their site just crashed my browser while trying to view their portfolio.

I'm sure Madonna looks good in there, but if I were shopping for a design studio and this happened, I think I wouldn't give it a second look.

Then again, the pop stars aren't your average client either, since their sites have much more temporary character. Probably because the typical cross section of their target demographics is of the age that could not care less about standards or rules in general.

[robc]

Firefox?

see what I mean.

[Marko]

Firefox?

see what I mean.

No, I don't. I never mentioned Firefox. I just said "browser".

Which browser it was is entirely irrelevant, their site broke it.