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  • Thanks for the detailed feedback Ben!

    Photostories good, but I wouldn't have more than one photo from each in your portfolio section. Don't want too much repeated content.

    Will do, sort of thought about that but should have considered it more

    Trim your cycling section to 12-15 shots. Great images but there are a few that are very similar (e.g front on mountain bikes).

    I agree with this, just felt like I had to pad it out a bit I guess, all those photos are taken within the same week give or take so I don't have that much work to show at the moment.

    Add more to your landscape section. Three isn't enough, maybe turn one colour and add some urban landscape (shouldn't be to hard to bang out a few nighttime wide long exposures), or whatever interests you.

    I've got pretty much no experience taking landscapes but it's definitely something I'd like to get into over the summer, urban stuff is a good suggestion too, I might have some stuff I can add in the meantime...

    Set your email so it's not yahoo, and something like contact@samtaylorphoto.co.uk (you should still be able to use yahoo as a base, my photo@benbroomfield.com is all run via gmail).

    Tried to set this up when I sorted the website but didn't really have time (exam season at the moment). I'll get it sorted in the next few weeks.

    Make life easier to your customers by uploading your photos to a pic library (such as picfair, but whatever you like), and link to it.

    Good shout, I'll have a look into that

    Oh and that blue wave photo. It's nice, but it is currently the front page image on your site for "sports". It doesn't scream sports, just pretty colours. Use the flag hockey player or the swimmer head instead.

    Another good point, I'll change that. It's just that I wanted to show how I look at sports, capturing the feeling of the moment and movement rather than your bog standard shot, but then its perhaps not best suited as the cover photo.

    Ah I hadn't seen the other two hockey shots, just the black and yellow skater, as your site doesn't seem to agree with the crappy IE running on my work PC, but I got there eventually! Beautiful shots regardless. I thought it might have been a Sheffield Steeldogs game and was just curious as you hardly see any coverage of British Ice Hockey, let alone lower leagues.

    It's the first and only time I've shot Ice Hockey and to be honest it was a pain in the arse, didn't get a single usable shot of anyone moving through the glass but it wasn't too bad from the dugout, just had to watch out for substituting players!

    *Edit - I've made a couple of changes, nothing major

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