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Atlanta/Chicago-based freelance photographer Steven Karl Metzer has a passion for portraiture and food and showcasing intimate images, incorporating environments and personalities into each shot. We particularly love the colorful, eye-catching, and easy flow of his website – which is why we are featuring it this week.

Check out what he had to say then head on over to www.stevenkarlmetzer.com.

Q: How would you describe the aesthetic of your website in three words?

SKM: Clean, Painless, Entertaining.

Q: How do you choose the images that are displayed on your homepage?

SKM: Well actually I struggled with that for awhile. I was putting up single images for my homepage but I felt that didn’t give the complete scope of my work in one page at one glance. I do all of my own updating, editing, and retouching, and the flow of imagery has always intrigued me and I have always loved laying out images. It’s a different way of thinking and it’s something that has always fascinated me. I take a lot of images with my phone and I actually love playing around with filters, so naturally I’m an Instagram junkie. I started with the idea of making a grid of iPhone images and I have always loved that look; I actually have printed portfolios from way back when with this imagery grid style for the cover. So I went back to that look and edited my strongest Instagram images and put my homepage together.

Q: How often do you update your website?

SKM: I update my website pretty often – usually when I’m on the road in an airport or a hotel. I like putting up new work as soon as I can so my clients can see new projects and new imagery.

Q: What is your favorite feature that liveBooks offers?

SKM: I absolutely love the functionality of the editSuite – it’s so easy to upload images, arrange them, tag them, etc. Also the optimization feature is especially nice when uploading, it’s a bit of a time saver for sure!

Q: What’s one piece of advice you’d offer to someone designing their website?

SKM: My best advice would be to really think about the images that you choose; you want to keep people’s attention and keep them coming back for more and the best way to do that is to have only your strongest images on your website that flow together as you look at them.

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