My new george site just went live woo hoo. I just rebranded from Digital Izatt Photography to Dustin Izatt Photography and got a new website.

I will also be getting a brand new rebranded custom blog from our very own Rudy (Provisage) which will be up in about 3 weeks.

I redesigned my price sheets to look like this now They were designed like this -------} Old prices

I also upgraded to offering La-Vie albums and so far my brides love them.

I just posted on my blog about the new branding and new albums, give me some blog love

I also went totally legit with my website music and bought a 10 pack from Triple Scoop Music


After Tiffany is done with school this year, we are planning on adding her to the business and we will be a husband and wife team and will be raising prices again I can't wait for her to join me.


On a side note, I was going through some papers today and found my price sheet from when I first started up my business, lol. You guys are gonna laugh when you see these. I have come a long way in 3 years.


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i see you changed your mind about the music....

looks nice.

wooty hooty! Those of you who have given Dustin the 3rd degree about raising prices, some has sunk in and we have raised the bar, alot from where it was (MUCH more from the scans he put in) We have been working hard on this website and it has come at a great time. We have a bridal fair Saturday and it is a total relaunch. Let us know what you think.

Thanks in advance!

Yeah, because for some reason, when you go to hit play it says how many songs there are on the jukebox, but to actually make the song play, the bride would have to hit play and then fastforward, and I don't want them confused, lol, it took me forever how to figure out how to play.There will be a big price jump next year when Tiffany joins in and we are debt free

Wow, everything looks fantastic, you really did a fantastic job of putting everything together, it all flows seamlessly. It does not hurt that all of your images are stellar.

Thanks Amy

looks great!
I just wish you had an option to avoid the hostile screen takeover.

On most bludomain sites, I think there is an option to open in the same window versus hostile screen take over, however George isn't one of them I don't think My new portrait site is going to be a hostile take over too because when it opens in the same window, it flashes a huge warning that the resolution is too small.

Took a peek and it looks good! I use that song too on my website.

Sweet Triple Scoop Music rules!!!

congrats D! everything looks awesome!!

yah, i really love the big images - i am sorry i did not spend the extra dollars and get this site for my boudoir site - i got one of the old $100 ones instead......

your opening slideshow black and whites are dazzling....

All looks fab Dustin !

Now is that a shot of the Giants Causeway ? if so how unfair being from N. Ireland myself i havent even got one of those :-)

Mags

Looks great Dustin!

Hostile takeover is normally a drag, but at least there's a huge payoff in the form of HUGE pictures!

Pet peeve alert: Can't stand the fact that your music started playing along with mine.

I didn't get very far into the site, gotta run -- but two things jumped out at me: The "$1,000.00" deposit for weddings can look like a smaller number if you just take the decimal and last two zeros off. And your family portrait session fee, HONEY, is WAAAAAAAAY too low. Give me a break. Are you actually telling me that it's worth your time to shoot a family for an hour (taking however long it takes you to get your cameras ready, cards formatted, batteries charged, car loaded with samples to show, etc), drive there, shoot, spend time editing, and then sell them a 4x6 for a grand total of 60 bucs? Heck, even if they buy 3 8x10s you still only get a check for $140. That doesn't even cover your cost in the time it took you to get ready. You need to either raise your creation fee or raise your print prices. Do the math, man. Then forget the math because you're really good. You obviously learned this about your wedding pricing. Don't undervalue the value of good family portraits either.

Have no fear Jules I am currently working on a new portrait site as we speak which should be live in about a week. It will be the new bludomain Luke site and will also have huge pictures with bigger prices

I also decided to not have the music play upon site load, because I agree, that is a huge pet peeve of mine when I am listening to my iTunes editing away, and I look at another photographers website and their music starts playing. I just hope brides will figure out how to turn the music on because it would be a waste of $300 if it never got used

Hey Dustin, site looks great... few things... on your title bar, it still says Digital Izatt... for both the entry page and the main site... Also, on your testimonials you gotta double-check your dates, some of the first ones have dates that haven't occurred yet... amazing that you got testimonials from the future!

Haha, great catches Chris and thanks for taking the time to notice that I updated the dates to say 2007 and updated the Digital to Dustin. I am really glad you noticed that. Thanks everyone who has chimed in and helped me notice those small things that will really help improve the website OSP ROCKS

Wow, you've been busy! It looks great, but even more so, your work looks fabulous!

I love the big images, but I have a question....not just for Dustin, but anybody who knows this web stuff. I changed my display settings to the 'standard' 800x600 and you loose huge amounts of D's new site. Is 800x600 still the standard, or is there a new one? Ross at www.flosites.com is currently building me a new site (it's almost done, yay!) and I'm still not clear how some are getting full frame images that can scale and others aren't. Is that not the case and I'm just THAT ignorant when it comes to this stuff? I'd love to know.

Again, Dustin....it's stunning.

Ginger, not many people are using 800x600 monitors anymore, definitely not anyone looking to book a wedding photographer. I design my site for 1024x768 which I think is the new baseline monitor resolution now... but then again I don't use flosites or blu, I do it myself, so I don't have resizing capabilities.

Dude new site looks freakin' sweet, and that price list was even scarier then my first!!! Rock on guys!

It is indeed! When 800x600 is standard for images simply so that navs can be viewed in browsers without having a scrolling bar to nav the areas invisible, alot of templates and sites, even some of our own i admit, have had this issue but you can never please every monitor resolution, browser but you try to get the optimum possible.

when an image goes full screen, it has the 2 options to either stretch the image from 800x600 or 900x600 or you have a seperate image especially for that eg. 1200x900 to go for larger monitors aka, 26inch plus - the largest apple screen. usually a flash plugin goes over this to either sharpen the image which sometimes can show up pixelated, and a smoother which makes the image slightly less sharp but its smooth on all resolutions. The issue comes with cropping, with monitors being a standard 3:2 when you get a widescreen it takes the image fullscreen and stretches it so you lose the top and bottom of your image, when you have the screen taller, usually on crt monitors then you lose the left and right side of the image, the only way to stop this is to keep a stage which as was said is 800x600 or 900x600, that way all of your image can be viewable and nothing lost.

i usually recommend having a stage but the full screen option which i know a lot of custom sites have and now ive seen one or two template sites with this option also. Hope that helps explain the full screen issue etc. PM me if you have further questions