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I'd appreciate any honest feedback on helping me improve the landing page and other parts of the experience on the site. Is the value prop popping? This site is intended for photographers.

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As a website based on critique, I'd like to see an example of a series of photos showing incremental improvement. I know this takes time, but it's the main driver for how others see your site as a benefit to them - increasing their skill level and also participating in critique themselves.

Thank you for taking a look. Yes, that's a part of the idea. You can upload revised photos once you edited based on critiques. Critique is the first step but idea is to create a platform for photogs to collaborate. Thanks for taking a look. Any suggestions for improving home page?

Just a few representational ideas. You're a photography based website, but the the main photo on the page is covered up with a large transparent black box, let the photo serve as the overall branding of your site. Quick web tools mock up - http://i.imgur.com/aI3tFvs.jpg Similarly the other photos on the page are filled with content (but justifiably so) or are far too small. I really feel that the photograph needs to have a stronger presence.

Yes, thanks for the suggestion. I felt the same way but was trying to make the text more legible. I guess I could try and pick a different picture which is more cleaner so that text can still pop. Will try. Really appreciate you taking the time to do the mock up! Cheers!

Thanks. Made some changes based on suggestions. Will continue to tweak

Great would love to see the update...write to me jamaya at mit dot edu. Also forgot to mention, but you can also darken the overall image (if using white text) or spot darken where the text is located. It's a technique used by Medium and others.

To improve conversion, you could make sign up easier and faster. Perhaps only have fields for email and password?

Thanks for taking a look and the suggestion. The challenge I experienced is that if you don't ask it's much harder to get users to add details later but I agree, I could drop some of them. I will try and reply here on how that goes :)

Would it be an idea to implement OpenID? This would allow you to pull the user details and means users don't need yet another password to access your site.

Since Flickr is starting to require a Yahoo login for access it may be an idea to start there.

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