Fotizmo - 4th of July Fireworks Photography
January 8, 2007 | Tags: photography, photos, fotizmo, fireworks, flash
I have used flickr to display my fireworks photos, but I wasn't impressed. The only way to view all 160 of the fireworks photos I have processed so far is with 75x75 pixel squares. The size diminished the impact the photos had on viewers, and the white background drowned out the vibrance of the color.
I needed more pizazz, more energy.
Then there was fotizmo.com/fireworks/, where I poured all 160 of the 67x100 thumbnails on one page. Well, it had the pizazz and energy I was looking for, but it didn't convey to the viewer the bulkiness of the collection. Yes, people could tell that there were a bunch, but I wanted to show them all of them at once, for the full kick.
I decided to spend a couple hours on a basic map of the fotizmo.com/fireworks/ page in Flash. That way, a user could zoom out and see all of them at once and still be able too get up close and check them out in detail.
Sorry for the ghetto interface, but I didn't have any extra time to pour into it. You'll notice the "LOADING" box in the bottom left. It'll load 3 low-res photos first to let you look at the set, then load the 3 high-res photos to give you better detail. If you see any fuzzy ones that you want to check out before the rest are done loading, go ahead and click it -- it will launch a new window.
Here are some instructions for the common-sense-impaired:
- Click the magnifying glass with the plus sign (+) on it to zoom in
- Click the one with the minus sign (-) to zoom out
- With the "Move" tool selected, you can drag the map around to view the thumbnails
- With the "Link" tool selected, you can click on a photo and view it in a larger size
As always, feedback is greatly appreciated! brian[at]shaler[.]name
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