Greetings :]
Currently knocking a site together for my personal photography portfolio and cannot decide on a suitable name / domain / title for it. I’m having a similar dilemma that Cadence did – do I use my name (carl osbourn / carl osbourn photography) or an alias (silent boulevard I quite like)
Reason being…
Most people misspell Osbourn and either leave out the ‘u’ or add an ‘e’
And it just doesn’t really, well, look that good. Adding something like ‘photography’ to the end just seems to sort of elongate it.
I quite like ‘silent boulevard’ because it is a bloody good Tom McRae song and when I think about it, I imagine a nice black site design with light opaque fonts etc which is exactly what I want really – is that copyright infringement in any way?
Thanks in anticipation for anyone that bothers to read this :]
Carl
Meach, 5 months ago
I have the same trouble with my surname – I get electricity bills addressed to an oriental gentleman called Mr D Mee Chan!
I’m in the middle of the same project and have decided to go with a photography and surname free site called www.pickledegg.co.uk
Scott Ruhs, 5 months ago
Do you have a nickname that you could use or make something up from your name like carlostphotos.
Carl Osbourn, 5 months ago
I suppose a nickname would be good idea – I often get called carlos and quite like that :]
would be good to try and develop that into a photography term or something… hmmm…
Cadence, 5 months ago
Hmmm… I hadn’t thought about the possible copyright infringement problem… Otherwise I really like silent boulevard! I like your name a lot, too, though! You have quite a conundrum here, my friend! I can imagine a lot of people would want to spell your name like Ozzy Osbourne (with the ‘e’ as you said)... Maybe you could keep the idea of silent boulevard but change the adjective? That way you could preserve your dark layout idea, avoid the copyright stuff, and ‘silent’ isn’t really a word you’d want describing your work anyway, is it? I mean, you want your work to speak, right? ;-P
Carl Osbourn, 5 months ago
that is a brilliant point cadence – great idea changing the adjective, you’re right :]
hmmm, will have to have a think about this now. i think boulevard is a great word – sorta like my ‘boulevard’ of photos so I just need to think of another word that complements it as well as ‘silent’
Building my site is a helluva daunting task – have started creating header ideas and logos etc in PS, need to do a dreamweaver course or something to get the shape of my site together quicker I’m finding myself opening DW and then I have a brain fart and give up! :-p
thanks for taking the time to suggest that – ever so greatly appreciated :)