My photography gallery

Since taking up photography 5 years ago I have been busy building up a collection of my favourite images - the following are a few of them, some of which I hope to use in my final year project.

January 2008 - Home Page design layout progress

It has been a long a slow process but hopefully it was worth all the effort!

The following shows the progression of the Home Page Design layout -

I have reached my destination - the last image on the right is my final layout!!!

Week commencing Monday 14th. January 2008

Tuesday 15th. January 2008



Progress review with Patricia - Worked on home page over the weekend – the top buttons still need more work



Review meeting with Mike on Wednesday 16th. January:
To Do List for next week:
Work on layout to be used in Dreamweaver for History database page.



Thursday 17th. January 2008
Worked on home page again. Designed different buttons and a legend – thumbnail & large.



Saturday 19th. January 2008
Worked on legend for home page. Tried to show large image of legend when clicked on thumbnail legend.

New & hopefully final home page layout

Week commencing 7th. January 2008

Reviewed my progress on project with Denise, Patrica & Seamus who gave me good advise on the work done in Dreamweaver and the home page layout to date. Have kept memo of same - I have to do a lot of minor changes to make to the home page!!!

Christmas Period 2007

Worked on different aspects of my project over the festive period. The Flash content and Dreamweaver were high on my priority, as they required some time for setting up without any interruptions so these were the first two areas I tackled and with some success.


Dreamweaver
Set up some of my pages in Dreamweaver even though the homepage had not been finally approved by my supervisors.



Flash

Commenced work on the flash file - just the beginning of it so that I could see it embedded in a table in Dreamweaver.

Architectural Firms
Made contact once more with Healy & Partners and Murray O’Laoire and was successful in obtaining information from Healy & Partners.
Still awaiting information from Murray O’Laoire.

Content for web pages
Had been collecting information from various media sources such as the web, newspaper articles etc. and started to compile this information into a word document, so that it can easily be taken into Dreamweaver when these pages are set up. The areas I worked with are “Vision”, & “Partners”
Note – this section is still in working progress.

Video Content
I initially said I would like to interview a well know Limerick figure on the revitalization of Limerick – should this idea not come to fruition I intend to shoot some video footage of “Live Limerick” depicting sites showing the new Limerick including the building of Thomond Park.
As I felt out of practice with Adobe Premier I decided to use my own video camera – “Traveler CV 5070” to shoot some video footage over the festive period. I encountered a major problem when importing my file (which was an .asf file) into Adobe Premier. Adobe Premier did not recognize the file.I spent two days sorting out this problem on the Internet and located a converter which allowed me to convert the .asf file to an .avi/.mpg file which works perfectly in Premier

I also spent a little time familiarizing myself with Premier.


Photography
Took some shots in the city over the Christmas break – need to look at same to see if they are useful for my project.

Why this project motivates me

It combines my architectural experience and photography passion together to create a web site housing both aspects. I love to view architectural and photography sites on the web and the idea of having my own web site using my design and my photographs keeps me focused and helps me to reach my destination. Also having made contact with people who will supply me with information I feel obliged to produce a good end product.

I love to take photographs of buildings and other interests, and will be able to use some of those images in this project to help show off my native city to its best

I will be able to give an architectural feel to the web site by using an architectural style layout on the web page, which I hope will attract architectural inclined individuals. The following is an example of architectural drawings that could be used transparently as a background housed in the web page -