Click to Enlarge With its wide-screen, black-bordered interface and elegant name cards that flash before each celebrity portrait, Eric Ogden's Website has a cinematic quality that befits his moody, atmospheric images. "I wanted the site to have a feeling like you are looking at movie stills in a theater on a projection screen, but not in an overt way that would be tacky," says Ogden, who shoots for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and other magazines, as well as such clients as Sony and Paramount. Having posted his site three years ago, he says updates are as much about streamlining as adding new material. "I'm impressed sometimes when Websites have fancy Flash introductions, animation, music, and things like that -- but I just want to keep things simple because I know people are impatient. They need to see some pictures and be done with it. Then they can always request a portfolio book." Although Ogden credits his online presence with much of his commercial success, he prefers to shoot traditionally, on medium-format film. "There's not a lot of postproduction work on my images," he says. "I'm very involved in the printing, but I have someone who handles the digital end who's good at it. I am not really all that technically minded when it comes to digital," he says. "At least not yet."
URL: www.ericogden.com
Launched: 2003
Designed by: Mike Hartley, of Bigflannel Design
Web Philosophy: "The Website has become incredibly important as a shorthand, a handy reference to my work. A couple of years ago it was sort of something you could do or not do -- but now I feel like you really need it."
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