For creatives, photographers, filmmakers and other working visual artists, our websites are precisely our own virtual galleries. Like real-life galleries, websites are places to hang your best work on the wall. But where websites go above and beyond those simple aesthetic delights are in their capacities to inform, entertain and even educate.
If you’re here, reading this, you may notice that we’ve revamped, reconfigured and entirely re-imagined a few new things about coreyrich.com.
Boom! Welcome to the new site! Please, make yourselves at home.
In the past, the process of launching a new website is notorious for creating migraines and wasting time and money. Historically, it would be less painful to have your fingernails removed than migrate content over to a new website. But as technology has improved, it’s actually never been easier to create a three-dimensional, functional and sturdy platform that feels customized like your own. Gone are the days of needing to be fluent in Java script just to post a simple video blog. It’s all plug and play, allowing artists and creatives these incredible platforms to share their creativity with a global audience. It’s an exciting time to be an artist, indeed.
We worked with Photoshelter to create our new site and I’m happy to report that the experience was nothing like removing your fingernails one by one. In fact, it was quite painless due to their excellent customer service, informed and friendly technicians, and new Beam platform. If you’d like to give the new Beam platform a try (and you should) visit photoshelter.com and type in the code COREYRICH13 on the Plans/Pricing page. Enjoy a 30-day free trial of Photoshelter’s Standard Plan which includes access to the new Beam portfolio websites.
Our real motivation for the website overhaul was to have a more sophisticated-looking gallery that could accommodate all the new video work we’ve been doing, and display both still and video content in a way that was reliable, compelling and intuitive.
Click around, and I hope you enjoy what you see!
We also overhauled our blog, expanding its capacity to showcase all the writing, motion and still work we’re creating. Now, you’ll find our popular “Story Behind the Image” series organized in one easy-to-find category (and for now it’ll continue to appear on our social media pages, Facebook and Google+ , too).
I’ve said many times that if I weren’t a photographer or filmmaker, I would actually be a teacher. We’re launching an entire educational series of video tutorials called “Getting the Shot with Corey Rich,” which will be found and sold here on the new website.
“Getting the Shot” is aimed at still photographers looking to transition into the world of motion storytelling. These elegant, 60- to 90-minute long-form tutorials are designed to fast-forward you past the long and painful learning process, and get you right up to speed so you can start maximizing your DSLR’s potential and produce dynamic still and motion shoots that have a high-production feel.
We’re also producing a free offshoot to our Getting the Shot series with our “Tech Tips” video tutorials. Our goal is to post a new Tech Tip every month. These straightforward how-to videos will take virtually no time out of your day, but hopefully they will help save you hours and hours of learning the hard way.
Check out our first Tech Tip: “Athlete Portrait.”
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new website and find it useful and engaging. Please come back because we’ll be working hard to bring you more great stories from the edge, educational articles and videos, and the latest news from the worlds of photography and filmmaking.
