I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't...

I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm

https://eugenrochko.com/

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Old Man in the Shoe

@Gargron good work!

6 July at 1:10 | Open on mastodon.social

oldfartjmb says eh?

@Gargron

Those are fine images, Eugen. Thank you for sharing them with us. I think that one sees into the photographer's heart through their images.

6 July at 1:28 | Open on mastodon.online

John Turner

@Gargron there are some great photos on there. I always enjoy the programmer/arts crossovers.

6 July at 1:28 | Open on hachyderm.io

CM Skellington

@Gargron Ilford B&W film makes me so happy.

Also, Fuji Velvia brings back soooo many (expensive) memories. Try it if you haven't. I believe they still make it.

6 July at 1:28 | Open on mastodon.online

skryking

@Gargron wow that works great on my android tablet.

6 July at 1:32 | Open on infosec.exchange

Vinícius Cardoso

@Gargron very good job! Simple and elegant. Also, beautiful photos!

6 July at 1:38 | Open on bolha.us

Marc Widmann 👍

@Gargron flashback

6 July at 1:38 | Open on mastodon.online

Bodo Menke

@Gargron Nice shots, nice design, nice layout

6 July at 1:49 | Open on hessen.social

Aaron Ellsworth

@Gargron clean and elegant. Nice work!

6 July at 1:51 | Open on mstdn.social

.:\dGh/:.

@Gargron There is Cheveretto...

6 July at 1:53 | Open on mastodon.social

Cam Cook

@Gargron Our team, Studio CMS (we're all engineers guided by a photographer) has been building a fedi-friendly CMS for photographers for the past bit, were almost out of alpha and are in desperate need of guinea pigs

6 July at 1:59 | Open on masto.ai

Michael Hanscom

@ccook Random drive-by response: How tech-savvy do your guinea pigs need to be? For instance, I’m fine with LAMP style things that can be tossed onto a Dreamhost server and plugged into a MySQL database, but nope right out of installs that start with “just spin up this Docker container” because I haven’t had time to learn what that even means, let alone figure out how to do anything with it.

I’ve been looking to find a way to move from Flickr to self-hosting in some way, but haven’t found a strong option yet.

Probably unnecessary background rambling: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2023/01/09/self-hosted-image-gallery-recommendations/

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6 July at 2:30 | Open on tenforward.social

Cam Cook

@djwudi sadly no self hosting; though I might push for that later (I'm the one on the team yelling BUT WHAT ABOUT OPEN SOURCE FOLK / ALT TEXT IS REQUIRED).

We target non-tech folk. The most advanced you'd need to really know is how an FTP client works (if you choose to hook your camera or laptop up to us for direct upload). The rest is all web interface.

6 July at 2:35 | Open on masto.ai

Michael Hanscom

@ccook I at least have curiosity (and as an accessibility advocate, appreciate that there’s someone yelling about alt text). Maybe I could help? No worries and good luck if not, of course!

6 July at 2:41 | Open on tenforward.social

Cam Cook

@djwudi I'll mention it at my scrum meeting next week

6 July at 2:42 | Open on masto.ai

Angie

@ccook @Gargron What do you need of these guinea pigs?

6 July at 3:12 | Open on mastodon.social

Cam Cook

@ang6666 I'm gonna bring it up more with our team next week. But essentially people who can use our services and tell us all the things that are confusing, not working, could use improvement. We ofc find these things ourselves but we're so busy making all the features we can only make notes of it for now.

6 July at 3:21 | Open on masto.ai

Mlíkař

@ccook I can help with that, if you are interested. I am looking for exactly that - photo cms that would federate… (@mlikamera )

6 July at 7:10 | Open on mastodon.social

maique :prami:

@ccook @Gargron Looking forward to it, sounds quite interesting.

6 July at 7:33 | Open on social.lol

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@Gargron https://flu7.com/best-diets-for-women/

6 July at 2:32 | Open on mastodon.social

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@Gargron Nice!

6 July at 2:56 | Open on mastodon.social

si_irini

@Gargron
Richtig gute Fotos
Film ist eine besondere Leidenschaft, toll das du das noch machst und daran festhältst 👍

6 July at 3:23 | Open on mastodon.social

skry

@Gargron I love your photos. Thanks for sharing them. Such a great sense of place and time, mood and color.

I also like your page solution. It seems very practical for various screen layouts. Did you build a UI for authoring too?

I’ve been having a similar problem. I also need an easy way to display text captions accessibly, per photo.

6 July at 3:26 | Open on mastodon.social

Jon Henshaw :coywolf:

@Gargron the photos (and site) look great!

6 July at 4:01 | Open on henshaw.social

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Sandro Santilli

@Gargron does it support ActivityPub ? #Pixelfed does

6 July at 4:06 | Open on floss.social

Martin Stengel

@Gargron IO200 is a very nice CMS for photographers. Self-hostable with low prerequisites, though not FOSS. 😕 The Need for your own photo place over pixelfed etc. is understandable. Its not enough to present photos in a kind of feed alongside creations of others. Especially if opening your archives it is good to publish the content with the correct date from the past. This CMS is derived from the great Koken which unfortunately disappeared. https://www.io200.com/

6 July at 5:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Mitex Leo

@Gargron Like it 😘

6 July at 6:57 | Open on social.mitexleo.one

Mlíkař

@Gargron very cool photos!

… does the website federate? It could be cool having a portfolio that would publish sneak peeks of new works into fedi…

6 July at 7:15 | Open on mastodon.social

Tim

@Gargron clean and simple with focus on what is most important on your website - your photos. Like it much🙌

6 July at 7:26 | Open on mastodon.social

Christian Tietze

@Gargron Great job, minimalistic and usable!

I'm putting off building something like this for my sketches and paintings for years now. 🤫

6 July at 7:38 | Open on mastodon.social

@Gargron I too decided to just make one, a simple static one; I wish there were some decent static generator setups for photo websites, using git to publish stuff is not optimal.

6 July at 7:55 | Open on kolektiva.social

Luca Sironi

@Gargron do you have a #pixelfed (or maybe a #lemmy or a #bookwyrm) account ?

6 July at 7:56 | Open on sironi.tk

Lennart Petersson

@Gargron Really really nice, both site and images. Would like the same!

6 July at 8:04 | Open on mastodonsweden.se

Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:

@Gargron did you consider a single-user instance of #pixelfed ?

6 July at 8:28 | Open on sociale.network

Ben

@Gargron looks super clean! Honestly inspired me a bit to try to get my own photography on a site. Really like how the headers are done

6 July at 8:41 | Open on macaw.social

Jak2k

@Gargron
Could you add an RSS feed or Activity pub? :ablobcathappypaws:

@eleventy is a very flexible way to create static websites. Maybe that works for you.

6 July at 9:04 | Open on mastodontech.de

David Schmidt

@Gargron Great work. What tools do you use? How are new albums created?

I'm still hesitant to create one. Basically because I have pretty complex ideas about what such a site should do: interface with Google Photos (my preferred photo management tool), handling all viewports (desktop, mobile) in a modern way, subscription to channels and/or tags, comments, purchase/print functionality, merchandize, etc.

Meanwhile my photography is here: @dvidschmdt (and on Facebook, Instagram and Pixelfed)