Project Description:
The Photography Club at Georgia Tech was a group I joined my junior year when I decided to take on learning new skills in photography and explore the different areas of photography. For example, more than just point and shoot cameras. I experimented with things such as pinhole photography and now am currently learning to develop and print my own black and white film. During my journey, I decided to make a website where the small club could grow by having a place to not only show off members' work, but also to provide useful resources for any photographer.
The challenge for this project was in that it needed to be an elegant design, but plain as to not take away from the photographs we were showing off while we are a group of photographers focusing on just that -- photography. The original concept was to only use blacks, whites and greys so that the pictures would dominate the realm of the site. But this proved to be too plain and boring. Therefore I added the accent color, yellow, to signify "Georgia Tech" and spruce up the site just a bit.
As for the albums and gallery pages, I needed a design which would be easily updatable for when I graduate and someone else takes my place who may or may not know HTML and PHP. I ended up coding some PHP which automated the thumbnail creation process. Therefore, by creating a new folder and putting the group of pictures in the folder is sufficient to creating a new album. Screenshots of the site are available below.
