Portfolio moved from 500px to Backlight

Tiggrrr42 · 2017-10-18 21:08:52

Hi, delurking...

Having been a wee bit annoyed when 500px announced that their quite useful Portfolio feature would be going away, to be replaced by a new service only available at a cost I wasn't interested in paying, I decided to start thinking about what to do.

I had a quick look at the Adobe service (free with my Photographer Creative Cloud sub, yay), but soon dismissed it as not flexible enough.

Then my memory stirred - I recalled previously playing around with a Lightroom add-in that worked with the web module. And I even remembered the site name so headed to the Turning Gate. I liked what I saw, so last week I bought Backlight and started to play.

It's still in the early stages, but I've been able to move the portfolio to my own hosting and tweak the look a wee bit. Here it is:

Les Bessant Photography

Very impressed with Backlight, and with the information in the community.

Matthew · 2017-10-18 21:24:52

Welcome, Les! And thank you for your kind words about Backlight. The site is looking good so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how things turn out beyond the early stages.

peter · 2017-11-28 02:03:55

Having a quick look at sites to get some ideas.
A small criticism. When you click on a titled imaged, say, Castle Coch, one expects to be taken to a gallery of images of that subject. But it's really just the one image and part of a single level slideshow. Have you looked into creating 'album sets'? I think if you start doing those, the site would pop.
Love the photos overall, especially since you use an X-T2 for most. Not a big fan of HDR, but it does look cool for effect, if you know what I mean. ?

Tiggrrr42 · 2017-11-28 04:46:48

Thanks - the Castles album is part of the Wales album set, as it happens.

Still early days for this site - I need to find the time to select and re-edit[1] images, and there will probably be some rearrangements as I add more content.

[1] Software and my skills have come on a bit since some of the earlier ones

peter · 2017-11-28 04:57:18

Oh right, so it is! I think what misled me was the thumbnail has a label so I was expecting a gallery. If you leave the label off, it might be more tempting for people to click on it too. One of my favorite castles, though purists would mention it's not a 'real' one, and only, what, a couple hundred years old?

Tiggrrr42 · 2017-11-28 21:42:21

Castell Coch was a late 19th century "restoration" of a ruin. It is deeply unreal, and all the better for it

It's what happens when somebody incredibly rich hires an imaginative architect. They did some impressive work at Cardiff Castle, too.

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#1 2017-10-18 21:08:52

Portfolio moved from 500px to Backlight

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Re: Portfolio moved from 500px to Backlight

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