21 Examples of Big Photography in Web Design
Photos are the perfect way to capture moments you want to remember and moments you want to share with others. Using photos as design elements is a very good way to give your design a unique and personal touch, besides being a good way to get the viewers attention. You can use a photo as background, in the header, as central elements and much more. Lately a lot of websites are choosing photos as their main element and the results are pretty inspiring. So for today, we gathered some excellent websites that take this approach. There’s a ton of inspiration here.
Minerva
Kassandra Bay Hotel
Fine Thought
Design BLVD
Helvetitee
Studio Airport
Diehl Group
Fueld Films
Locals Apparel
Colin Grist
Kentisbury Grange
Noe Interactive
Design Week Portland
Motel Studios
Opera de Montreal
The Final Four
Latitude Supply Co
Buffalo
Breakthrough Design Group
Starmen Design Group
Kiawah Island
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I love communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Web writer, portuguese/english translator and co founder of @refilmagem & @mentaway Twitter: @gismullr
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15 comments
Design Turnpike
September 24, 2012Very cool. {Have to laugh at the name Helvititee, though}. I would love to show big photos of my artwork on my website – I’ll be incorporating some of these fine examples into my redesign.
Web Design Malaysia
September 24, 2012Kentisbury Grange looks superbly fine!
aledesign.it - Creative Graphic
September 24, 2012Great collection… Nice design..I love design who use big photo, so different and so attractive! Thanks for the list!
João de Campo Grande
September 24, 2012Excellent selection. Diehl Group and Kentisbury Grange are great pieces of web + photography.
Web Design Inspiration Today
September 24, 2012Kentisbury Grange is simply the best. I will add them up into my collection. Everyone mind to look my collection here,
http://localhost:8080/wdit/design/style/big-image
Alex Flueras
September 25, 2012Really nice collection. I have also selected a few large background websites: http://www.studioweber.ro/blog/webdesign/17-new-websites-with-large-backgrounds/
Web design Wolverhampton and Birmingham
September 25, 2012Here’s one of ours that uses big photography. Hope you like it: http://www.scubashack.co.uk
raven+crow
September 25, 2012Very nice collection of varied sites, Gisele. Inspiring indeed.
Michael A. Robson (required)
September 26, 2012These are beautiful. It’s funny the first thing I thought was ‘inspiring’ too! Not to be a hack, but looking at these really makes me want to run off and make a few ‘tweaks’
Keep it comin!
Laura
September 26, 2012Thanks so much for a great article. As someone who is looking to redesign her owner blog, the featured websites are very inspiring.
Web Design Inspiration Today
September 26, 2012Oops, sorry for wrong links in my previous comment. Here is the right one
http://webdesigninspirationtoday.com/design/style/big-image
Gavin
September 27, 2012Really use of such big photographs is a creative idea which gives website stunning and attractive look. I like the first one. I have tried few as well and I got good results.
Adam
September 27, 2012Wow! Very inspiring. I’ll be putting my photography to better use now.
Nick
December 4, 2012Simple & very beautiful – has an immediate powerful inviting effect. Thanks for sharing this inspiring collection of designs.
Nick
December 4, 2012Simple & very beautiful – has an immediate powerful inviting effect. Thanks for sharing this inspiring collection.