We've Moved!!!

We have moved to a new URL.

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Portfolio Work

Hello everyone! I just wanted to give a quick update on what's going on with the portfolio work we've been doing. We've decided to go back into our archives and give some more consideration to photographs that were once passed over as being "good enough" to make it into our portfolio. What we're finding is that there are hundreds upon hundreds of photos that should be seen by prospective clients and anyone just wondering what kind of photography work we do. The problem typically starts out during the selection process after a shoot; and this is a learning experience for us. From now on, while we are selecting the "proofs" from a shoot, we are going to give a wider margin of consideration for photographs to ensure we capture worthy photographs before and not long after a proofing process is over. So stay tuned, because you can expect to see the portfolio portion of the website grow by leaps and bounds over the next coming weeks. Here's the perfect example of a photo, which "should" have been put on the website a long time ago...

New Poll

Hi everyone! Well, as promised, I'm trying to keep up to date on the blog. I find that doing it around 11PM seems to work out as this is when I can sit down and actually take the time to write out thoughtful ideas and stories about photography and the work we do. I've posted a poll (on the right column of the page), to get a feel for what would be most interesting to the readers. This will help me to make future articles (or photo posts) more in line with what the readers want to see. This is not to say I won't post what I like as well, but I will keep the results of the poll in mind when deciding what to put up.

Adding to the Website Portfolio

Well it's time to put the finishing touches on the newly formatted website. The bulk of the photos have not been uploaded yet because they must be reformatted to the new default size for this website style. The photos have to be around 9x6, or else they will occupy less room than what is provided in the photo frames. This, in our opinion, makes the sideshows come off a little odd looking whenever a non-9x6 photo is displayed. So, in the spirit of trying to make everything look as perfect as we can, we are migrating the existing photos, along with new photos from the Summer and Autumn shoots into the 9x6 format. We'll get there, but it will just take some time.

New Website Online...

Well, it's only been 2+ months since I've announced a major change to the look and feel of the main website. The main part of the site has been changed out with a new, less "dark" look with a more modern feel. I've also slightly modified the primary color in our logo after seeing it (the color) in an email advertisement. It really grabbed my attention when I saw it against the 80% gray (or so) background -- so I copied the color :) There is still some more portions of the main website that require work. For one, the Portfolio button is missing until I get that sorted out...this weekend, promise!  Also, the front page slideshow currently only has about 25 photos on it, but when the site is "up to snuff", it should have 200 or so photos. The slideshow is random, so if someone sees a photo they really like, they might have to wait a while for it to come back around. I've done this so that the people who frequent the site will usually have new photos to look at before choosing the relevant portion of the site to navigate to. Let me know if you think it's a bad idea! The new site was also chosen because it's built on a newer Flash compiler that allows indexing of it's pages by Google. This is incredibly important to us because of our SEO. It also allows for each section of the main Flash site to have individual "landing pages". That means instead of having to go to the front page, waiting for the little "loading" icons to finish and then clicking on the site button, you can go there directly, by URL. Here's a small list:

Home: http://www.thefphoto.com/index2.php#/home
About Us: http://www.thefphoto.com/index2.php#/info3/1
Testimonials: http://www.thefphoto.com/index2.php#/info2/1
Wedding Info: http://www.thefphoto.com/index2.php#/info4/1
Contact Page: http://www.thefphoto.com/index2.php#/contact

We are going to set up redirectors as well to make the links more intuitive (i.e. Contact Page will be www.thefphoto.com/contactus). What this all boils down to is that because we are in The Hamptons and provide Wedding Photography here along with all of our other services, we want the search engines to include us when people search for these kinds of services. Historically, the search engines could NOT index the Flash based sites, so people have had to keep "Mirror HTML sites" in order to ensure the search enginers retrieve the relevant data. OK, enough of that!

Since this *is* a photography website, I'll end the blog post today with one of my favorite photos I took this summer. It's a photo of a model (forgot the name..dammit!) that was just walking from the VIP tent at The Hampton Classic...

Additional Domain Added

In the new world of online marketing, we've added a new domain to our website, photography-in-the-hamptons.com, or more typically used, www.photography-in-the-hamptons.com. This should help with our SEO campaign (technical jargon for getting more people to see you on search engines) for the Hamptons based clients that are in need of our photographic services. We plan on being out here all spring and summer long, shooting at parties, weddings and various high profile Hamptons events, so stay tuned..

Reloaded

Well, we're back. The team at Fitzgerald Photography is looking forward to 2010. We have our sleeves rolled up and plan on documenting all of our photography ventures. It takes a little extra, but we think we've built a big enough fan base to tell out stories as we go. Last year was a year of growth and we had much success getting our name out there, in both the wedding photography industry, but also The Hamptons social media scene.

In 2009, we shot for a startup Hamptons magazine as well as an array of weddings from various walks of life and social circles. We had the opportunity to provide portraits for newly engaged couples, familes vacationing in the Hamptons, Senior's getting ready to graduate, Bar-Mitvahs, birthday parties, model and actor portfolios, and some of the hottest parties in The Hamptons. During that time we made a lot of new business acquaintences, as well as food people we consider friends.

We were, however, a little short on the details in the blog area. THis is unfortunate because we had a blast and it would have been nice to share it with the people who we like to consider "fans". We won't make that same mistake again, so keep checking back with us and if you notice that we haven't posted in a little while, drop us a note; we almost alwyas have something to report on, whether it be a photography shoot, a tidbit on some equipment we acquired, or just a new technique we've picked up and are using in our new studio. That reminds me! We have a studio now where our clients can come and enjoy an nice relaxing shoot, or a fast paced fashion or glamour shoot with drinks, good music and an engergetic, comfortable atmosphere. So if you've been considering getting a professional glamour shoot, send us a note at www.thefphoto.com and we'll set it up. Or if you're one of the many aspiring models or actors we've met over the past couple of years, lets reconnect and make some photographs!