Law Offices of Wesley Y.S. Chang

AAAAAAAH! Another website is complete. I love this euphoria feeling after another project can be checked off my list.

This one was the law firm one I had been talking about for a couple months now. The Law Offices of Wesley Y.S. Chang.

I'm pretty proud of this one. Not that it's all that revolutionary or anything, but it's the first site I've done that features a lot of my own photography! In fact, one of the very reasons I had bought my camera a couple months ago was for this job.

All the photos found on this site have been either taken by me or my bud Andy Kauffman, there are a couple of them offered by my client. I pretty proud of my photoshop enhancement work on some of these as well. Nothing was left untouched on this one.

From a pure labor standpoint I lost money on this project though. But I knew that right at the start going into it. They didn't have a big budget for this but I found it a good opportunity to test my theory that as a professional, it's always good to do more then what your clients expect. So I had decided I would spend a lot of extra time to do this right.

Did it work? Yes and no... I think overall my clients are happy. But I noticed an interesting effect.... when I first jumped into this project they didn't want much -- not even expected photography.

But once they started seeing the design, all kinds of extra requests come in. It's like if you wanted to buy a Geo Metro but someone told you that you were getting a Mercedes SLK....then you think, "OOOH! that would look nice with a sunroof and silver rims!"

So that's what happened here. I ended up doing staff photos and everything for them. Which in the end, I didn't mind because I had my first experience doing portrait photography. I'm pretty proud of how they came out too. I used my new camera and my dad's tripod which is literally as old as I am. (....er..... 20ish years or so *wink*)

Aaaaah. I'm so glad it's done though. I put a lot of detail into this one. Illustrated map, search engine, even an "easter egg" section on the homepage that leads to the photography section just for kicks.

Well...on to another project.